Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151026005934/@comment-25926288-20151102152647

CoolDudeAl wrote: Ray Donovan wrote: That is the same argument our talented writer Adam says. The problem is that such slippery slope idealogy infers that we can come up with any headcanons that happens off screen, and as long as it doesn't contradict what happens onscreen, imagine the whole host of scenarios anybody can come up with.

Such important discussions like Regina being responsible shouldn't happen "off screen". The reason it didn't happen on screen because it would be ridiculous to buy into OQ being a legitimate relationship which the writers insist on pushing.

Even if you want to stay the course on insisting that Robin/Regina knew each other on screen long enough... it doesn't matter if it is not articulated or shown on screen. All I am saying is that A&E don't have to work hard on writing that relationship coherently when so many people eat up their horrible storyline. OUAT has been tell, don't show in many occasions, and this so called "long, enduring OQ" relationship is no exception. Telling and not showing is for lazy, untalented writers. That can't show every possible important interaction between characters, we would never get anywhere with the plot. No story, regardless of medium, shows everything. Some things have to be infered or assumed. That's the way fiction works, and I for one am thankful. I don't think that's the problem presented with the show.

The show relies on Telling vs Showing more often than not. Show the important things. Nothing important should be off-screen or never before mentioned. Example: Robin knew of Zelena, but apparently all htat stuff happened off-screen in season 3. That was because they didn't know that he met Zelena beforehand, but it wasn't onscreen.

Another example is this episode. Emma went from in a field of flowers loving it up woth Hook to Dark One voice Emma using magic and doing Dark One things. What happened in between? We didn't see any transition, just good and happy to villainy villain.