The special effects in this show are terrible. It’s like it’s a show on UP and not ABC.
Mulan sucks as an actress. Just terrible.
Black Lancelot, lol.
Henry is a terrible child actor.
On the bright side, Mr. Gold is great and the wicked witch is great too.
It is a show that is best watched only for the first couple a seasons, it got really bad later on... God help anyone that tries to watch the episodes when they leave Storybrook.
shareThis is my second attempt at this show. The first season was pretty enjoyable. Three episodes into the second season and I remember why I gave up on it the first time.
Do you mean the green Wicked Witch of the West, or her sister, Regina, the Evil Queen? Or both?
Gold and Regina ARE the show, but Ruby is very easy on a man’s eyes. So is Greenie.
I meant Regina.
And Ruby has a great personality in this show. Megan Ory sucks the life out of Chesapeake Shores.
I had a lot of problems with this show, enough to write an entire novel on the things wrong with it.
My biggest gripe was how they viewed magic. It took them two whole seasons to show that not all magic was evil, that there was good magic, and it didn't have to be treated like a crutch. It also made me angry that the villains always had one up on the good guys, due to using powerful dark magic, whereas the good guys were always bumbling about, having to rely on their wits, tricks, or using a little dark magic of their own to overcome the bad guys, since good magic was apparently in very short supply. (Either that, or the selfish fairies were hoarding all of it).
I have more gripes, but that was just one of them.
Magic’s like any other technology: in itself, neither good nor ill. What matters is how it is applied. OUAT used the hoary formula of the good guy getting the toadstools kicked out of him/her until the final round. The protagonist has been shot/drugged/had his/her beloved taken hostage/had a bomb implanted cranially/threatened with an IRS audit. YET S/HE TRIUMPHS! (here play theme from Rocky.) It’s family-friendly crap.
Fun fact: in the occult tradition, what energy you put out is returned to you times three. All the harm the black arts bring blasts the practitioner times three. No Adept accepts those odds. Hollywood, on the other hand . . .
Another thing that bothered me was that they went with the whole "no good deed goes unpunished" mantra. For example, Snow White spares Regina from being executed, because she doesn't want to lower herself to being the same kind of ruler as her stepmother was. However, being merciful and banishing her is what led to Regina plotting and unleashing the curse that stole many Enchanted Forest people away to our world, and having them stuck there for 28 years.
Later on, Snow stops Regina's horrible monster of a mother from becoming the next Dark One, (which would have been a disaster of epic proportions) but everyone acts like Snow herself was a horrible murderer for doing so. Snow White even feels so guilty, she begs Regina to end her life afterwards! Soooo stupid! It's like, did everyone forget all the people Cora murdered in her past? Did they forget what a rotten monster she was to Regina, her very own daughter, while she was growing up? The world was a better place without her!
I swear, Edward Kitzis and Adam Horowitz are the laziest writers ever to work on TV!
I agree. I'm watching the series again and it is really frustrating to hear other characters equate Snow's actions to evil, cold-blooded murder. Some monsters have to be brought down for good.
shareOne of the greatest story-writing sins A&E did was in Season 5, when they just plain threw the fairy-tale stuff right out the window and decided to make the show into another "Supernatural." That, and I thought the thing they did with Red Riding Hood was horrifying, making me never want to watch the show again.
shareYou're not wrong about the special effects, but that doesn't bother me. Maybe because I'm so into stuff like The 10th Kingdom, I'm used to bad effects to the point of liking them. Basically I'm just so starved for magic-centred media that the cheesy effects are almost charming to me in how reminiscent they are of stuff I like.
Mulan and Lancelot actors were both bad, regardless of Lancelot's race.
Gold, Regina and Snow White/Mary Margaret are the show imo.
However, I think my biggest gripe with the show is not just that the child actor who plays Henry is terrible, but that all the other child actors in the show are so damn good that it's embarrassing how bad he is. I also hate how the show moved away from children being at the centre of most of the stories and onto pure romantic plot lines later on.
Will anyone please go back and find out what show that was.
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