Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6003903-20130506204929/@comment-1070010-20130508045548

172.1.96.246 wrote: I hope not! The whole storyline with Peter Pan depressed me! My favorite story in the world and they made it sound evil and demonic. What an upset! And Neverland sounds like a nightmare! What were the writers thinking? They lost my viewership! What a terrible personage of Neverland and its characters! Horrified....

Just because the writers made Peter demonic and Neverland hellish does not mean that it's a bad twist- in fact, I think it's a brilliant twist, and it's one of my favorite liberties that the writers have taken so far. It's not too difficult to think of Peter as a demonic abductor of children. He lures them into Neverland with the promise of eternal youth and no adults, effectively commiting kidnap, and brings them to an otherworldly island where they have no hope of escaping without his aid- and this is the original story. It only makes sense for the writers of Once Upon a Time to take the darker and grittier route. You want to know what they were thinking? I dunno, but in this episode, it was genius. These last couple of episodes, especially this one, certainly make up for the lackluster middle of this season.