Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160501123222/@comment-25926288-20160501133841

I'll probably suggest that the thread stick to canon and in-show relationships as presented. (And by OP, seems like it's free reign to dicuss why you dislike each and any ship).

Snow and David are amongst my favorite relationships as it was beautifully done and kept up all the way until season 4b where they tore up that beautiful tapestry. Besides given very little, being very inactive, and being borderline suicidal, I think this is one of the top tier relationships (not just romantic) on the show.

Emma and Henry and Regina and Henry makes up the next rung and a very close second. Seasons 1-3, nuff said. Now we have snippits, but then again Once usually decides campy, angsty teen to some good development. Plus, they get to absorbed by their insignificant other (well, it's true).

But let me be fair, it's about least favorite. First off, who could put Zelena and Hades! Or Neal and Emma. I mean they all have the makings of a good story that might be left untold.

Honorable mention goes to Rumple and Belle (season 4, episode 2 and onwards). Why specifically that? Because Rumple devolved into cartoon villany and Belle went to enabler-ville with some weird reverse psychology tossed in. But Robert Carlyle and even Emilie's performance draws me in every single (and I mean every single) time.

Next honorable mention goes to any brief, unestablished relationship, specifically 4a and onwards. This includes Belle's princess journeys, Emma and Elsa (although beautiful, it was doomed to disappear), and Dorothy and Red (cringy nicknames, rushed, doomed to disappear).

Third place honorable mention (Geez, I have a lot, don't I) goes to Henry and Killian. Robin and Henry might be non-existent, so there's that. Hook seems to show his "feels" for Henry like how he saw Baelfire (Guess Violet needs to watch out! XD). However, it had that notion mixed in with Hook's opportunistic streak and secret-doings and sometimes, his fault or not, he ends up placing Henry in some sort of danger. (Yes, love. Lead Henry to the witch that almost choked the life out of him that still hated his mother.) And it might have gotten better if it wasn't confirmed that Henry didn't like Hook as of the end of 4a and if even through offscreening their relationship, Hook returns to be a little ungrateful to Henry because Hook's an impulsive little twat....not unlike Regina, but Regina yells at other people's kids (and apologizes).

Now, onto the juicy ones.

3. Robin and Regina. Quickly done offscreen and predestined by plot contrived dust, the relationship didn't really have much to go with. Let's not get to talk about the soap operas that the show had to leap over. More relevantly, Robin is a family man who can't wait to drop his newborn baby and his only son to die somewhere far away. It's hurting all credibilty as a father that he has. What's worse was the asinine talk in 519 where Zelena compares changing Hades to Regina changing Robin and........hold up. I said HOLD UP! Regina did not change Robin and the show jumped leaps when Regina (love her) was the masss-murdering, evil tyrant in their relationship. Otherwise, it's not higher simply because the writers toss it trash, ignore it like trash, then think the fans will sit in awe at it's unrealized beauty. XD

2. Killian and Emma. Wonderfully slow burn and I can see why SQers see some of the things that they do. Anyhow, Emma blah-blah and Hook blah-blahs. I have a whole thread on this if you're curious. If OQ leaps, CS leaps, spirals, and almost jumps the sharks below. XD. Msot of it probably deals with how some fanss view it and some by how it's promoted, but it's not an epic love story and not even close to Snowing Seasons 1-3. I mean look at all the failed attempts at comparison.

2a. I will always find you. What a corny line by Emma to say. Plus, she sort of gets this way about every major love interest, lol.

2b. Just compare the off the walls, emotional, and overwhelming 3b Dark Curse scene to Emma turning Hook into the Dark One. Not even close, like on the otherside of Storybrooke close, which isn't close at all. I mean, Snow talking to a dying Red would be just as good, if not better to any emotional thing Hook and Emma try to pull off when comparing Snowing. At least, Snow and Red would be like Emma and her long lost puppy dog XD (Jokes, guys).

2c. I said more than enough or this post will be ten pages long.

1. The least favorite "ship" I have is the longest running ship on this show and it's present in every single episode: Writers x Audience (aka us, fans).