Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20131105202753/@comment-5913108-20131217165510

Arctucrus wrote: OK. Everyone else has just about covered my responses to your other posts, TVD, about how you're being a hypocrite criticizing Pan for being pure evil and yet that being exactly what you want out of Rumple when you advocate for "layered characters", and how you're apparently oblivious to the entire purpose of Belle's Neverland scenes and how she never would have said those things and how Rumple didn't notice that at all, and it caused him serious conflict...

But allow me to respond to this:

TVDaddictneedstogetlife wrote: I don't like Baelfire AT ALL !. Bell is still ok for romance but Baelfire is pretty useless! He is dull and boring. The actor playing it can't act. Whether Baelfire's son dies or his father, he holds one expression that conveys NOTHING ! >: (

If Baelfire is killed by someone then that will change lot of dyanamics on show because there is too much of fuss about this person. :) I have to admit the boy who played young Baelfire was much talented and I wish to have watched him longer. Something else you don't seem to understand. OK. I'm beginning to notice you only see what you want to see, or so it seems. You might enjoy the show much more if you open your eyes a little more, just saying. Baelfire's a fantastic character.

You don't realize, Baelfire's been hardened over 200-some years. He's purposely bad with emotion. It's not that the actor can't act. He's purposely bad at expressing himself as he has extremely strong conflicting feelings about his father that have been festering for more than a regular lifetime.

Now as far as him being dull and boring, are you blind to all his clever little quirks and moves? How about when he tricked Rumple with the squid ink on the leaf, in the handshake? Or when he tricked Pan, by coating the shaft instead of the tip? These small things make the elder Baelfire who he is, and make him utterly fantastic. They are not boring, there's no other character on the show, and few I've ever seen that are such great survivors and so innovative. Think of his trick for trapping the Shadow, the coconut, which everyone else thought was a star map.

Remember, this man is the one person to ever have escaped Neverland. Ever. That's huge. And his character fits that perfectly. I believe that. He's not a blithering idiot who does everything by chance, he's extremely, extremely innovative, and in tune with his surroundings.

I could go on, but I think, or at least hope, you get my point. I just feel like you're missing out on so much of the show by focusing on what you want to see, when really you could be enjoying it so much more by opening your eyes a little and seeing everything that's actually there.
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