The second part: characters that ingratiate themselves into others’ lives CONSTANTLY. You should know by now that I really hate this. That was why I hated West. Part of it is that the character is so irritating, but another, bigger, part of it is that the other character is not saying, “Dude, get out of my face,” somehow the other character is eventually charmed by something that I personally find very off-putting. I think you were initially turned off by August because of this? (So was I, and have found little to redeem him so far, though mostly due to my aversion to the Pinocchio thing.) Henry and Emma both do this, and it DRIVES ME CRAZY and keeps me from really liking the characters. I feel like on some level it is sloppy writing because it just shoves them into a scene repeatedly.
With Henry, I get that he’s ten or whatever, and maybe subtlety isn’t his strong point, but look at how Micah was written! Henry’s one character development so far is that he has this book (so far as my rewatching, to be fair, although IIRC I don’t think he’s had much more than that in general) and he wants to break the curse. I still have not really figured out why or how he has taken on this quest. I guess he learned it from the book? But where did the book come from? Mary Margaret gave it to him, but where did she get it? The way he keeps stupidly defying Regina really irritates me too: like how she will send him to his room and he’ll go straight out the window. I want someone to punish him for this! He is a total jerk. He keeps saying that she is the evil queen, but aside from some harsh speaking, we haven’t seen that Regina has done anything wrong to him. He doesn’t want to be there just because. (How long has she been his adopted mother? I was under the initial impression it was since he was a baby, but…? I feel like they would have something more of a relationship if that were true.)
Similarly with Emma. She just keeps shoving herself into Regina’s life or the problems of Storybrooke, and going, “You don’t like it? TOUGH.” Not so much that it happens, but that it happens repeatedly. Maybe because she keeps waffling on it? I want her to pick a side and stay there. I want her to decide to stay away from Henry and then actually do it. I can see that she’s really longing to make a connection with Henry (for whatever reasons), but it really bothers me that she is not listening to Regina’s very reasonable (if a little bitchy) requests to keep away from Henry. Regina is his mother and she presumably adopted him legally; she should have the final say. Emma has no ground to stand on, especially after ten years. I guess it gets a little old when in every single episode Emma half-heartedly tells Henry he shouldn’t be there and then Regina finds them together and loses it.
I think this is also a big part of why I dislike August although since I haven’t gotten up to his episodes yet I can’t comment for sure.
David! I promised I would talk about him. First off, I really dislike his multilayered back story on both ends. I get that they are trying to develop a character that is barely more than a face, but it makes him seem passive. That’s boring. I find him much more appealing as David than Charming; I think he is sweet and earnest although the amnesia plot = what. I very generally like Charming and Snow together, but there’s no doubt that I vastly prefer Snow to Charming. He is getting a little better, but his main job seems to be to be a love interest for Snow/Mary Margaret. He doesn’t stand too well on his own without crazy soap opera plot twists.
With Henry, I get that he’s ten or whatever, and maybe subtlety isn’t his strong point, but look at how Micah was written! Henry’s one character development so far is that he has this book (so far as my rewatching, to be fair, although IIRC I don’t think he’s had much more than that in general) and he wants to break the curse. I still have not really figured out why or how he has taken on this quest. I guess he learned it from the book? But where did the book come from? Mary Margaret gave it to him, but where did she get it? The way he keeps stupidly defying Regina really irritates me too: like how she will send him to his room and he’ll go straight out the window. I want someone to punish him for this! He is a total jerk. He keeps saying that she is the evil queen, but aside from some harsh speaking, we haven’t seen that Regina has done anything wrong to him. He doesn’t want to be there just because. (How long has she been his adopted mother? I was under the initial impression it was since he was a baby, but…? I feel like they would have something more of a relationship if that were true.)
Similarly with Emma. She just keeps shoving herself into Regina’s life or the problems of Storybrooke, and going, “You don’t like it? TOUGH.” Not so much that it happens, but that it happens repeatedly. Maybe because she keeps waffling on it? I want her to pick a side and stay there. I want her to decide to stay away from Henry and then actually do it. I can see that she’s really longing to make a connection with Henry (for whatever reasons), but it really bothers me that she is not listening to Regina’s very reasonable (if a little bitchy) requests to keep away from Henry. Regina is his mother and she presumably adopted him legally; she should have the final say. Emma has no ground to stand on, especially after ten years. I guess it gets a little old when in every single episode Emma half-heartedly tells Henry he shouldn’t be there and then Regina finds them together and loses it.
I think this is also a big part of why I dislike August although since I haven’t gotten up to his episodes yet I can’t comment for sure.
David! I promised I would talk about him. First off, I really dislike his multilayered back story on both ends. I get that they are trying to develop a character that is barely more than a face, but it makes him seem passive. That’s boring. I find him much more appealing as David than Charming; I think he is sweet and earnest although the amnesia plot = what. I very generally like Charming and Snow together, but there’s no doubt that I vastly prefer Snow to Charming. He is getting a little better, but his main job seems to be to be a love interest for Snow/Mary Margaret. He doesn’t stand too well on his own without crazy soap opera plot twists.
Which leads us to…
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