Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25519666-20150115143614

When watching Once Upon A Time, I discovered the best way to approach the series, as opposed to expecting consistency, plot and character development, is to take it like this. The show is basically a ten-year-old girl playing with her dolls. She has her Disney dolls- her Snow White, her Prince Charming, her Evil Queen doll, etc. She even has a set of dollhouses- her Enchanted Forest playset, town playset, etc. Then someone gives her a Barbie Doll with a leather jacket, so the girl makes the Barbie into "Emma Swan", and incorporates her into the "town". And it goes on from there. This season someone gave her some Frozen dolls, so she played with them until she got bored. She had a Maid Marian figure but decided she didn't like her so she played with her for ten minutes and threw her into the toybox. Now the Rumple figure she had gotten earlier (and pretended was The Beast) is getting played with again, along with a set of secondhand Disney villainess dolls. When you accept that this entire show is a series of impromptu, off-the-cuff play decisions by a child with ADD, it becomes much easier to accept.  