Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-25926288-20160629114158/@comment-25926288-20160829223927

Starting in chunks wouldn't be helpful, so I'll just do it by excitement, lol.

Cliche: The show couldn't escape it. They were drowning in cliche, but they pulled a few twists (Epic Pointy Guy, Mary Su--Amy). But then....

Death: They were all surprising. Some great twists, others upsettingly cliche. Of course, my fav Alex gets to live, but I knew that the tokens would live and the colorful camera guy (and the old creepy and then the bus driver ).

A & E were all over this as "man you want to be" "Snuff out the light', etc echoes really hard and gets a little too apparent. They need to stop this "This show sucks....OMG it's so good!" because they will never get anywhere with that logic. Sadly they do the exact opposite with Once. (You can definitely tell they wrote this side by side with the recent season (4B and 5A). Their mythos is always great. The Once style poofing sound and essentially some borrowed elements aren't that bad. It actually ties nicely into Once and it just bothers me that they can be so deep in this mythos (even if it's cliche) but then so basic when they have an etire universe of fantasy, sci-fi, and etc. I mean, the magic of DOS is far better than Once at many points. The possession of Malamy was far better than the whole Dark Swan/Hook stuff. If they just switched the effort for Once and DoS, Once would be strong for many years to ome and the critics will have to eat their words and their cliche camp could disappear.

Characters: Grew to love Cricket. Alex was always cool post premiere. Everyone else can be part of Amy's collage.