Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140523071906/@comment-25926288-20150214234623

I think all the big four couples have positives and negatives. Sometimes some don't take a look back and analyze them. Snowing is charming, peaceful, united; are also a bit self-entitled, overly optimistic, and suicidal (look how often they offer and are willing to die!). CaptainSwan is a typical bad boy turned good and good girl; but Hook sometimes is portrayed as obsessive (which is his internal darkness) and only wants to look good in Emma's eyes, while Emma remains sort of distant. Rumbelle is funny because it spells out most of the stuff around it to me. In season two, there was this ingenious exchange of dialogue:

Belle: I thought you've changed. Rumple: What, in the hour you've known me? Belle rushes towards the door.

This is hilarious to me that it was true then and true now. Belle after being in prisoned after leaving evil!Rumple and throughout the curse, sees him bring back magic evilly and then say she thought he had changed. Belle shows that she's looking for something that was not there. She finally saw what was always there in the mid-season finale, nothing but a beast. And even, Rumple said no one could love him, and that he would never change. Great analysis though.

OutlawQueen is different. I like Regina and I like Robin, but not the contrived plot with Marian. I also like Marian, though she's barely a character. Regina's and Robin's relationship was the only pixie dust- destined relationship shown on the show. They really though fall mostly due to my expectations. They fall in love immediately within an episode which is too quick to establish a good relationship. It was in TV time of like a week, they met, drunk together, and were snuggling by a fireplace like a serious couple. Then, Marian came back and Robin messed up. Robin could have talked to Marian and separated, but instead he said he was married to Marian and when she was frozen, smooches with Regina over her frozen corpse. Poor taste to me. But it'll likely get better. Hopefully, when Robin learns about Regina's past as a sociopathic mass murder (who I love) since he knew nothing about her before.

SO, pros and cons, such is life, or in this case, their lives.