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Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote:

Edzz wrote: This is actually pathetic on the writers' behalf. From 4B till now almost every single episode has resulted in a continuity error, or an unfinished plotline. I'm sick of it. How is it possible that they mucked up the timeline so many times in one season? And they have even started contradicting things from within each episode's own continutity. I'm really annoyed with the slackness of the writing of OUAT. Since 3B really. I remember the first episode I watched and said this really doesn't make any sense and it was ep 318 when they revealed that Cora was engaged to Leopold. Fans were confused and asked Adam and he said (lied would be more accurate) that it was "planned" since 118 and if we notice "hard enough" we would see that Leopold actually recognized Cora (and married her daughter anyway), but back then I gave them the benefit of the doubt. After seeing episode after episode with continuity errors and retcons (which later became characters assassination and disregarding logic), I stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt, I stopped listening to A&E's bullcrap and just realized they are crappy showrunners (not writers though) which do not deserve excuses and should be called out on their lies and mistakes.

This stuff do happen in other shows and films series, but not nearly as much as it does on OUAT and when fans point that out, the writers own up to those mistakes, they don't lie, they don't make excuses. It also seems like A&E do that on purpose because they know that they'll have their band of fans that think this show is some kind of masterpiece, which will defend their terrible writing chioces that disregard continuity and logic, so they don't bother checking themselves or the timeline or the logic or the continuity and we end up with a puzzle whose pieces don't fit. While I agree they have had some odd things regarding the magic, name one time something didn't fit into the timeline. And don't use 511 as the example, while it was a bit of a strange choice they made, there was a break between the two scenes where they inserted 511's stuff into. It's a bit clumsy, but it still works. Like I said, give me an example of something else that doesn't fit in the timeline. 415 when there was a grown up Snow a grown up Aurora, but Regina was at the same stage she was at 205 and 303, it doesn't even align with how she was at 513, which is supposed to happen between 204/303 and 415. They made it seem like Aurora has been asleep for 3-5 years when it was established she was cursed relatively close to the DC being cast. Moreover, there is the annoying inconsistency that the sleeping curse wasn't taken willingly (something that happened in 518 as well, but of course Regina lied because if it doesn't logically make sense then the characters are liars so it's Regina, Lumiere, the apprentince... Who else?) and that she didn't sacrifice anything, which ruined her characterization because it only made her seem like a bratty liar (oh another character who's a liar). The next point is just a nitpick, but it is still annoying that they didn't do the iconic scene of Aurora pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel AND DIE. 415 didn't show Snow, because she would have been played by Bailey at that point in the timeline. Thus they never show Snow, except the back of her head by an unnamed extra. Aurora we can just assume is older than Snow, and then the Sleeping Curse stopped her from aging furthur. Phillip also probably didn't age in beast form. I never understood how Aurora knew how long she was asleep anyway, isn't the point of the curse that you are in a death like sleep? Moving along to the next point: yes, characters, just like real people, lie. Alternativly, maybe putting the spell in an apple means it has to be eaten willingly, whereas pricking someone's finger can be somewhat forced on someone. Finally, I think the more classical iconic scene of the finger prick on the spinning wheel is being saved for Briar Rose.