Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20151225192609/@comment-25926288-20151226043152

I think another think (although in hindsight) is a disservice to characters. Nimue was played by a strong actress with a good amount of screen presence, but after her debut episode, she's delegated to a few scenes and all of them exposition. The Apprentice was played by a great actor as well but he came and spouted exposition even until his death. Probably what killed him. (except a few scenes like the one with Henry) This is usch a disservice to great actors and the characters they create. But a greater disservice is to the main cast of characters.

More than Emma's Dark Swan was the disappointment of a few select characters. There is only one character that has suffered more than Rumple's. It is Snow White aka Mary Margaret. Everyone has their thing. Remeber that snobby kid you hated (Cora), Remember being afraid and weak (Rumple), Relive your childhood (Pan), Felt life was ufair (Zelena), but then there is Snow.

Season 1 & 2: "Remember the constant fight to maintain goodness above all else." Nice!

Season 3-4a: "Remember that time you regret something stupid you said."v Um, what?

Season 4b: "Remeber that time when a dark incident came up that you didn't remember?" .........ugh

Season 5a: Remember that time when you saw someone crying and needed help, but you felt awkward and so you sat by and did nothing."..................................GRAH!!!!! That's exactly what this paragon of hope and goodness did. What role models are we pushing. I cannot believe that Snow While hads fans. (She does, so I feel bad for them.)

Regina might be cool, but noone should look up to a massmurdering tyrant who's reforming. And what's worse is that: Regina looks up to Snow and how are the fans suppose to take that. Regina's a better mother to Emma currently that Snow is. Regina's a better hero than Snow is. I may like Regina, but this isn't the role she should play. Same with David and just swap in Hook.

Character assassinations do happen and this analysis isn't even discussing out of character moments. Anyone can watch seasons 1 and 2 and then skip to season 4b and 5 you don't even know who that woman is! This is what makes that worse than Rumple's. umple may have gone in a loop and became 2 dimensional, but Snow resembles no counterpart of her in those two seasons. And there is no onscreen reason anyone can use to justify it. There are flashes of old Snow at times, but Snow hasn't actually grown too much as a character and whatever she did grow is lost because her character has been sabatoged unintentionally. The babynapping is literal character assassination, but look at my points and you can try to argue away babynapping, but you can't argue there's a change and it's not a pleasant one.