Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20141121060938/@comment-25192098-20141213202801

I honestly don't want an AU. If Rumple had gone through the portal with Bae, the curse most likely would have never been enacted, Em and Neal would have never met, Henry would have never been born, Regina, Snow, David and everyone else would be super old (well, more like in their fifties and in his mid 200's for Killian, but whatever) and who knows what else would have happened? I like the timeline the way it is, because even though OutlawQueen didn't happen in the past, Robin is going to have to pick either Regina or Marian in Sunday's episode (because with Ingrid dead Marian is unfrozen), and since the writer's aren't going to break Regina again and I saw a script tease where Marian tells Regina "I see the way you look at each other", which probably means she letting Robin go, OutlawQueen will most likely work out anyways. I think the AU storyline would be cool to just discover, but I think it will bring back more whining of "Oh boo-hoo, I choose this over that" and "Why did I do that when I could have been happier doing this?", especially if there's an AU page where Snow and Charming are able to keep Em, or if Killian and Milah are able to sail away before they can encounter Rumps in his DO form and live happily ever after, dying together peacefully in a pirate's life without CS ever getting a chance. If you ask me, if anything other than what DID HAPPEN happened, OUAT would be a completely different show; same characters/actors, different story. Rant over :)