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OUAT fannish bits...
Sep. 7th, 2013 02:10 pm1. Five wonderful things about shipping Emma Swan/Baelfire on Once Upon a Time
* Swanfire is a cool name
* The writers are pro ship and the ship is laced with loads of irony
* It's not abusive
* they already have a kid and he's 11
* the traditional gender roles have been switched up a bit
If you ever decide to ship a star-crossed romance on a tv series it's a good idea to pick one that is a) not abusive, and b) the writers support. Also helps if it's two grownups who have a history, and aren't under the age of 20 and have an equal footing. If they aren't equals, your ship is doomed. Plus, a kid already out there and part of their family - assures at least some longevity.
2. Once Upon a Time for the uninitiated?
Imagine the characters of all your favorite children's tales mashed up in a grown up adventure story?
Imagine what would happen if the Evil Queen from the Snow White fairy tale survived and decided with a curse created by Rumplestilskin to curse all of the fairy tale and storybook characters - so they are ripped away from their magical realms and thrust into our own? Now take that a step further...( spoilers for S1-S2 )
S3? ( vague teaser spoilers from ABC on S3, although you can most likely figure them out from the final episode of S2 on your own )
Oh so much fun. It's like watching a cracky fanfic mashup by the writers worked on Lost, BSG and Buffy.
Also comforting. Because the moral code tends to be "revenge is bad and has consequences", "everyone screws up", and "things work out in the end".
3. Once Upon a Time due to its funky narrative structure, works better when you watch it on DVD without commercials and one episode after another. Scandal is another series that works best in this fashion. It's pure serial. The B story thread is flashbacks, like LOST. It has the same narrative character centric structure that LOST did.
The dialogue is actually really good in some episodes. The best episodes to date, is basically any that focus on Rumplestilskin - in part due to Robert Carylye who like Alan Cummings has the ability to make anything work for him. It also helps that the writers are enamored of the character and wrote it for Carylyle.
Favorite episodes to date?
( Read more... )
Favorite characters:
( Read more... )
Ships?
: = platonic or familial
/ = romantic
* = main ones
( Read more... )
* Swanfire is a cool name
* The writers are pro ship and the ship is laced with loads of irony
* It's not abusive
* they already have a kid and he's 11
* the traditional gender roles have been switched up a bit
If you ever decide to ship a star-crossed romance on a tv series it's a good idea to pick one that is a) not abusive, and b) the writers support. Also helps if it's two grownups who have a history, and aren't under the age of 20 and have an equal footing. If they aren't equals, your ship is doomed. Plus, a kid already out there and part of their family - assures at least some longevity.
2. Once Upon a Time for the uninitiated?
Imagine the characters of all your favorite children's tales mashed up in a grown up adventure story?
Imagine what would happen if the Evil Queen from the Snow White fairy tale survived and decided with a curse created by Rumplestilskin to curse all of the fairy tale and storybook characters - so they are ripped away from their magical realms and thrust into our own? Now take that a step further...( spoilers for S1-S2 )
S3? ( vague teaser spoilers from ABC on S3, although you can most likely figure them out from the final episode of S2 on your own )
Oh so much fun. It's like watching a cracky fanfic mashup by the writers worked on Lost, BSG and Buffy.
Also comforting. Because the moral code tends to be "revenge is bad and has consequences", "everyone screws up", and "things work out in the end".
3. Once Upon a Time due to its funky narrative structure, works better when you watch it on DVD without commercials and one episode after another. Scandal is another series that works best in this fashion. It's pure serial. The B story thread is flashbacks, like LOST. It has the same narrative character centric structure that LOST did.
The dialogue is actually really good in some episodes. The best episodes to date, is basically any that focus on Rumplestilskin - in part due to Robert Carylye who like Alan Cummings has the ability to make anything work for him. It also helps that the writers are enamored of the character and wrote it for Carylyle.
Favorite episodes to date?
( Read more... )
Favorite characters:
( Read more... )
Ships?
: = platonic or familial
/ = romantic
* = main ones
( Read more... )