Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4839682-20130723082014/@comment-4975807-20130723210314

I would like to say the hate Adam and Lana are getting on Twitter because of Adam's response to the question at Comic Con is really uncalled for. He answered in the most polite manner in describing what his actual intent was in the setting up the dynamics of Regina and Emma's relationship that, in his eyes, he created their relationship to be purely non-romantic. And I understood him clearly in that aspect. I don't understand SwanQueen fans on Twitter going on about how they were "dismissed" and the like.

If anything, my perspective is the "Swan Queen Nation" girl who asked the question was very aggressive in how she approached her style of giving her opinion on SwanQueen. If any of you have seen the actual Comic Con footage, she starts off by saying "It's in the writing, it's in the acting" as if every single person watching Once Upon a Time, too, can see the romantic tension between Regina and Emma, and because it's so, then SwanQueen *must* happen on the show. I felt that was really discomforting to even hear because it felt like she was pushing her own ideals onto the writers, the cast and the other audience members, and maybe even a little arrogant on her own part.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around why SwanQueen fans are so angry about this. How is this "ship" different from any other ship on another show in which people put two characters and make them romantically involved as a fanbase couple? Adam never baited SwanQueen fans and said "yes, maybe" when it came to all those questions on Twitter in the past about "Will SwanQueen happen?" Or, maybe SwanQueen fans just don't want to accept what Adam's vision was and is for the relationship between Regina and Emma to have always been completely platonic. Either way, I just think people get *way* too invested in shipping a fanbased pairing that has always had the possibility of not happening on screen.