Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151120143743/@comment-25926288-20151120191416

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Maybe those rumors about Ginny and Josh leaving after this season are true, and that is why their characters are being written as so unlikable? Well, this isn't about rumors either.. And I'm sure that the rumors are false. They have less reason to leave than Robert Carlyle had in season 4. I mean Rumple was written terribly and had no foucs and pretty much could have died and ended there. So, I'm sure that none of them are leaving. It's just speculation.

It's something when you see so much of the actors' and Adam and Eddy's headcanon in the interviews and so on, but they seem to have a problem with displaying it. It's like when the special continually talk about hope, but the show doesn't truly represent hope. The bad guys are secretly good giuys that struggle to do the right thing, yet can never escape their past still! The good guys are secretly normal people that do some outrageously bad things for vengeance or just plain selfishness. True love is boring, while the messy kind seems like fun, until you die...because that's what happens when you have messy love (Neal died, Hook may die, Rumple dies, someone always dies if the love can even be a little messy).

But back to the topic, the plot has been messy, the worldbuilding has been nice, the magicbuilding has been contrived, the mythos has been dashed to pieces and the characters are the ripple in stagnant water. If they just didn the exact opposite, then it'll be cool. Let the characters have messy relationships. Let the worldbuilding be more contrived and set in stone. Let the mythos stay together with little twists here and there. Let the magic system be nicely formed (Come on, we know they litterally pull things out of a hat. I mean cries of the newborn, something that touched him when he was a man, a tear of the first loss love).

Nevertheless, this thread is sort of about the plot, but the characters are more important, yet they don't really get the justice they deserve.