Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151217193854/@comment-1916997-20151218174958

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: CoolDude, read and I said it's getting high. I read all sorts of fantasy and watch fantasy and have a decent level of Suspension of Disbelief. We all do. But I am not talking about the whimsical magic and trolls, I'm talking about character.

I can suspend my disbelief that dragons are alive and witches give birth to shadow babies, but I can't suspend my belief for long that a mass murderer and cause of almost all a person's unhappiness is that person's best friend currently and there are no qualms about it. There's something that has to make you stop and think, "All of these people are going to save a man who was just about to kill al of them, no questions asked." A human being at least wavers at the thought. Well, personally I just ignore that, as I feel it is like that on every tv show. Characters never stop and think, they just do, because the plot demands it. I much prefer that over the alternative, which is a show almost no one would actually watch, where characters carefully think and talk through all the decisions they make. That may be more realistic, but when you have 43 minutes to tell a story, you just don't have the time for that. And people obviously don't want to watch that, because if they did, they all the shows would do that, and they wouldn't get cancelled. And the truth is, slower shows and ones that don't have the action and plot moving rather quickly are the ones that are more likely to get cancelled. I don't know what TV shows you are watching that you put OUAT on such high standards. Literally everything on ABC. If you think Once is bad, you should see some of the other offerings. And at least Once is fantasy. Many of the other shows are set in the real world, but yet have things that would never happen in it, and they happen on a fairly regular basis. It's just the nature of the medium though. Just like no one ever eats or goes to the bathroom on tv shows or movies, unless it is plot important.