04-01-2018, 07:45 PM
(04-01-2018, 06:41 PM)Hell Rell Wrote:You're absolutely correct about people being more forgiving on that show, both characters and viewers but that's due to the writers making light of the characters' misdeeds to serve a plot. To them, it didn't matter that Regina and Mr Gold were despicable characters, perhaps the one common thread between OUAT and (to an extent) Grimm, and even other shows (Arrow comes to mind) is how the popularity of certain characters has often changed the course of the show.(04-01-2018, 12:31 PM)rpmaluki Wrote: Once Upon a Time and Grimm were nothing alike in premise or execution. The former hinged on the whole "true love" precept around fairy tales while Grimm was...well grimm, for the most past. Any kind of betrayal on OUAT was practically guaranteed to be reversed, it was simply a question of when, nothing was ever written to stick and I stopped watching that show after they killed Baelfire/Neal (who I felt got in the way of writers hooking Emma up with Hook so they got rid of him), the whole reason for Mr Gold's entire arc in S1 and S2, basically why the show ever came to existence. I quit OUAT after two seasons (despite liking some characters), I stuck with Grimm until the very end and miss it terribly (despite disliking some characters).
I really liked OUaT for the first few seasons although season 1 was clearly superior to anything that came after it. Only the first half of season and the second half of season 3 even came close.
I was a fan but I would never deny OUaT was way too forgiving even for a fairy tale show. If anything, the characters on that show were even more despicable than the ones on Grimm. Regina is a mass murderer and a rapist, not to mention her tearing families apart for 28 years and robbing people of their identities, and Rumplestiltskin ruined countless lives for centuries but the audience was expected to get angry at anyone who didn't give them several chances. In the case of Regina, characters seemed to be demonized and they didn't see how wonderful she is now.
I liked young Baelfire and was indifferent to Neal but it was clear they screwed up with him. He was absolutely a victim of shipping because it was clear he died to clear the way for Hook. Hook was an awful character and the increase of his importance to show helped doom it. There was nothing interesting about him and he was just kept on the show to be Emma's true love which made absolutely no sense.
(04-01-2018, 06:03 PM)dicappatore Wrote: Then I saw why the Emma character actress left House. She got to star on her own series.
Actually, she was written out of the show. It wasn't until a year later she got cast as the star of OUAT. She first became a recurring character on HIMYM. She was the only member of the original cast that was essentially let go. It caused quite the stir when it happened because it came out of nowhere.
Things turned out for the best though. Other than getting cast for House, getting let go from House was the best thing to happen for her career. She probably would've been on the sinking ship that was House had she not been let go and she wouldn't have been available to get cast as the lead in OUAT. She might have left House but she was probably making more money from House than she did for the first season of OUAT even as the star.