Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31937823-20180102211252/@comment-28162607-20180104003807

Lady Junky wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Okay I am settling this "hurr burr cs got too much screentime" argument.

Since season 1, ouat has been a romance driven show. That is just the way it is and always has been.

Emma is the main character-or rather was the main character- of the show.

Protagonist+Romance driven plot= one arc ouat of the whole show (ie. one half season out of 6 full seasons) where the main character's relationship gets a little bit more screentime than everything else.

You don't have to like CS, but saying that the show focussed on the protagonist and her relationship too much is silly. It is like saying season 1 focussed on Snowing too much.

OUAT has never been a romance driven show at first. At the origin, it was a family & hope driven show. They turned it into a ship show during S3.

And since S3, it is the main problem. CS, Snowing, Rumbelle, OQ, Swanfire, SwanQueen, etc... Wars between fans. And no, when you look at CS in S5, it is normal to feel it was too much. The writing was unnatural as hell, as some twists were not making sense. You can't expect people to enjoy a show and its cast, when the writers gave no fuck about the other characters.

And saying "Emma = main protagonist so normal" is bullshit. Many shows are better at doing a romance driven storyline for one character, without feeling that heavy on the fans. They ruined the entire 5A plot for that. It was badly done, and it would have been much better if some points were changed (aka Dark Swan as main villain). Too much CS or not would not matter if it was done correctly.

When you can't do a good storyline for a ship, and you try to extend it on the entire season, you must not surprise that people complain about the lack of other characters. If they were better, they would have done a good, heavy CS storyline, and still make the rest of the cast important. Did you watch season 1 by any chance? You know, the season where every other episode was a Snowing centric? And there was also RumBelle, Gremma, Drova, Stable Queen? And which introduced the "true love is the most powerful magic of all" idea?

I think you saying it is abnormal for a show to focus on the lead character's romance, especially after neglecting it for so long, is "bullshit" as you so eloquently put it.

I never said the storyline was done well, I do not htink it was. What I said was "giving CS (the lead character's romance) a lot of screentime for once is nothing abnormal".

As for your argument that the rest of the cast was neglected this is objectively false. Snow, David, Reginam Henry and Belle all got more screentime than they did in season 4. Snow got a story about finding herself again, Belle finally got some agency and backbone, Henry got to explore his Author powers, his conflict over missing Neal and a romance arc (while in season 4 he was literally Regina's cheerleader and nothing more), David got to finally meet James (which allowed Josh to bring his A-game) and had 5x03 focussing on his knighthood complex.

Season 5 had a lot of issues and yet some choose to focus on one that does not really exist.