I don't know why I am so into it, though. The special effects are really quite bad (I think they spend all their budget on licensing Disney characters), and it's all melodramatic fairy tales, but I guess I really enjoy melodramatic fairy tales?
But one thing that made me go, "wait, what?" was when Emma went on a date wearing this:
And her parents say, "Is that your shift? What else are you wearing over it?" when her mother goes around wearing a skintight outfit with a lot of cleavage. That dress there is pretty conservative!
I get they are going for the parents being protective thing, but it did not work with the dress that was chosen so it felt weird to me.
I also am really annoyed at the waffling they do with Regina. She's bad! No, now she is good, but no one is nice to her! Nope, wait, she is bad again because everyone was a jerk to her so she had no reason to be nice, like, who wants to be nice if no one notices, right. Oh, no, here she is good again. Okay, she is good for real now, and here is her True Love, but wait, nope, lol, NO TRUE LOVE FOR YOU, REGINA.
I just want Regina to be happy.
I used to watch Once Upon a Time. I loved the little homages to Disney and how they twisted some of the stories/characters to fit the show. Like Peter Pan... I actually quite liked that take on him.
ReplyDeleteBut then I started watching the season after the Peter Pan one. The one that starts with Elsa from Frozen basically. Which is... I don't know. I had a hard time with that, didn't even manage to finish the episode. The other stories at least exist in other fairy tales... Elsa? Not so much. Yes, there's an old fairy tale that Frozen is very losely based on... But VERY losely.. and Elsa even had the same clothes as in the movie.
As if that wasn't enough. Suddenly Rumpel and Belle are dancing to the actual Beauty & the Beast song from the Disney movie. That was the final straw for me. As much as I drool over Hook, that was too much.
I might give it another go though. Cause I still kind of like the idea of it. I just wish they would keep the references down a little, like they did at the start when it wasn't too horribly obvious all the time - and there was usually some sort of twist to the characters. (Like Little Red Riding hood being a werewolf!)
Judging from the dress in the picture above btw, they failed with that overprotective joke! Emma wears more revealing clothes than that when wearing skin-tight jeans and a shirt... Hahaha!
I think it is less "fairy tales" and more "Disney tales" now, honestly. Merida from Brave is in the new season! And I don't mind that, so much, but I kinda admit, I want them to just give the main group their happy ending and give me stories on the different takes on the people back in the Enchanted Forest. These Storybrooke people have been through enough!
DeleteThat's always the issue with shows I guess... The main characters have SO MUCH happening to them, you start to wonder how much bad luck some people can possibly have!
DeleteIn Sweden at one point they had a long-running soap.. And as with all soaps, everything happened to these poor people in this little town... Eventually it felt like the writers just didn't know how to finish it all up... So they had one of them go insane and basically blow them all up *lol* End of show!
Let's hope they don't do that for OUAT though... I do want some happy endings!
Yeah, I feel like it is one of those things where they keep bringing in new characters to try to keep it fresh, but because it is the same main characters, it doesn't work. And part of it not working is the fact they have to have flashbacks of the past, and sometimes those flashbacks don't jive really well with flashbacks from previous seasons and it feels forced.
DeleteSo I think they should just do a "happy ever after" for the main group, and then have the kid get stuck in the fantasy world and have to figure things out, since he's been in the real world for his entire life and it would be at least a season of story out of that.