Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180302022146/@comment-35769775-20180603153723

CoolDudeAl wrote: Tysonjackson wrote: But that’s kinda the whole point of the show. That no matter how bad you were or what you’ve done, you can always become a better person and be forgiven.

As for Rumbelle. Honestly I personally don’t see the problem. Relationships have troubles. It just shows that no matter how many times he leaves her he always wants to come back and she always wants him too. Their love can survive anything. And it did. They ended up living happily ever after until her death. Yep, this. The show is about hope, not hope*.

^*but only if you are a good person, otherwise go rot in jail somewhere.

Besides that fact, as I stated, many dramas don't adress bad things main characters do. Like has anyone watched Scandal or How To Get Away With Murder? All the main characters in those shows have broken about 100 laws, as well as done many morally questionable things, and guess what, you are still supposted to side with them, because they are the "protaganists". It is kind of just how dramas work. The difference between ouat and scandal/htgawm is that those two shows make the characters likable to the point where you want to root for them. Also none of the protagonists on those shows did horrible things for lame reasons like you told my sepmom on me so let me murder entire villages to destroy you, or anything and none of the protagonists were able to to do horrible things without facing horrible consequences, just look at annalise and her struggle. She helped students get away with a horrible crime for reasons that made a lot of sense and she's usually on the verge of losing everything now. Characters like rumple and regina will do horrible things to innocent people for petty or no reasons at all and all they have to do is say they want to be good again for them to get happy endings, no apologies and we rarely see them trying to make it right. Once tells the audience that these characters deserve happy endings but it doesn't go through the actual work of us watching them earn them. Solving one problem to save the people you care about most isn't anything heroic because who wouldn't. Once is just not good because it doesn't want to show regina's struggle with everyone she's wronged, Regina will do three good things after being a lifelong villain and started whining because not everyone likes her now, that's not a redemption arc. A good redemption arc would be xena's arc.