Anyone else getting bored with Once Upon A Time?
I never really quite fell for the Belle/Rumplestiltskin relationship to begin with - how many times does Belle have to see him do horrible horrible things before it stops being a case of 'seeing the good in him' and just verges into dumbass stupidity? The whole thing just screams Stockholm's Syndrome by now, and it's not romantic, it's just creepy. Especially now that Belle is Lacey, and apparently far from seeing the good in him, now she likes the bad!
And as for the whole Robin Hood thing...do they get that Nottingham is a real place? Like, really real? With actual history? It's not just part of the Robin Hood legend? How can Nottingham exist in Fairytale Land? How can an actual physical place from our world exist in Fairytale Land?
All of these characters so far have been, more or less, fairytale characters - but Robin Hood isn't a fairytale character. He's a figure from English legend who may or may not have been based on a real historical person, but his entire story is most definitely rooted in a very real place that, by the way, is down the road from where I live. You can't include Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Once Upon A Time without, you know, Nottingham. And I really don't see how Nottingham can exist in the fairytale world. Are we going to have King John popping up? How does that square? Do the Crusades exist? And Richard the Lionheart? This is history now, not fairytales.
I know it sounds silly to be moaning about internal consistencies in a TV show with characters like Rumplestiltskin, Captain Hook and Snow White, but to me it just shows that the writers are reaching now, they're looking for gimmick characters they can include, and they're ignoring their own internal logic. It's a show about fairytales. Robin Hood isn't a fairytale. He's a legend. They'll be including Paul Bunyan and King Arthur next.
I think the show has jumped the shark. I may well keep watching, but it's definitely irritating me more than I enjoy it at the moment.
And as for the whole Robin Hood thing...do they get that Nottingham is a real place? Like, really real? With actual history? It's not just part of the Robin Hood legend? How can Nottingham exist in Fairytale Land? How can an actual physical place from our world exist in Fairytale Land?
All of these characters so far have been, more or less, fairytale characters - but Robin Hood isn't a fairytale character. He's a figure from English legend who may or may not have been based on a real historical person, but his entire story is most definitely rooted in a very real place that, by the way, is down the road from where I live. You can't include Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Once Upon A Time without, you know, Nottingham. And I really don't see how Nottingham can exist in the fairytale world. Are we going to have King John popping up? How does that square? Do the Crusades exist? And Richard the Lionheart? This is history now, not fairytales.
I know it sounds silly to be moaning about internal consistencies in a TV show with characters like Rumplestiltskin, Captain Hook and Snow White, but to me it just shows that the writers are reaching now, they're looking for gimmick characters they can include, and they're ignoring their own internal logic. It's a show about fairytales. Robin Hood isn't a fairytale. He's a legend. They'll be including Paul Bunyan and King Arthur next.
I think the show has jumped the shark. I may well keep watching, but it's definitely irritating me more than I enjoy it at the moment.