Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160229060949/@comment-26159109-20160229115253

PrettyBlackRosePirate wrote: No real person is single faceted and has only one set type of behaviour. While people might expect something along those lines in characters, I don't see anything wrong if their behaviour varies sometimes. Bandit Snow White and post-curse Snow White behave differently, Storybrooke version Mr Gold is more sophisticated than Rumplestiltskin, even after the curse broke, Hook the bad boy in season 2 becomes lovesick puppy from season 3. This is the kind of thing that can be called OOC, right?

But then sometimes introverts get out of their shells and open up, and extroverts may sometimes get discouraged and start remaining quiet, to give some simple examples. That's not going OOC. That's reality of change. It can be acceptable in fictional characters as well. Eventually even Snow can grow tired of being optimistic in the face of utter mayhem. I'm not saying that there should be only one set of behavior, but when a character acts against their very basic personality without giving any good reason and without it being acknowledged in the narrative (ie other characters pointing it out), then we as viewers should question how the show characterize thier characters. A character can change and grow, but we should see the development and the evolution a character is going through. Hook can't be a love sick puppy just because the show TELLS us that. The show needs to SHOW us that. The OOC claims are about characters suddenly acting against their nature without any reasonable explanation or when characters don't react to situation in a realistic manner (like Henry chilling at Granny's with a smoothy after his mom turned into the dark one and disappeared).

Snow can't be defined as someone who always fought to the very end (101, 209, 216, 319 - that's pre and post curse) and so suddenly not willing to fight, especially when there are other people at stake, including leaving her child parentless, something that motivated her relationship with Emma throughout season 1-3A. Also, there episodes where she is one scene optimistic and then another pessimistic.

Hook wasn't just a bad boy season 2 and then love sick puppy season 3. The love sick puppy change was sudden, but even with it, he still continue to do shady things behind Emma's back in 3B, 4A, 4B while claiming to love her. That's the writers wanting to have it both ways, but they end up with inconsistant characterization.