Does Anyone Watch Once Upon a Time?

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Of course, Jonathan Freeman for the win, but yes, that was rather good.

I do! I have watched it from the very beginning. I can't believe ABC is making the fans wait until March for it to return, though.

I like it, and watch it every Sunday, but my mother HATES it with a passion. I love to annoy her by going into a classic rant about it on occasion.

I really love Once Upon A Time. Everything about it works, even the occasional corniness and dodgey special effects add to the charm.

I've seen up to the fourth season. The channel that broadcasts it in Australia gave up on it after the third series, so after much angsting I had to catch the Frozen arc with a mixture of Netflix and illegal cunning.

The show reminds me a fair bit of Dragonball Z. Each arc is defined by the big bad currently opposed by the protagonists, and many of the more interesting protagonists were originally villains themselves, like Regina, Hook or Rumpelstiltskin. To my mind, Regina equals Vegeta, Rumpelstiltskin Piccolo, and Grumpy is Oolong.

What I really love about Once Upon A Time is how often insane things happen without seeming implausible within the context of the show. Like when Little John was attacked by a flying monkey, and became one himself. Or when Rumpelstiltskin needed ink in Neverland, so he summoned a squid, because obviously he can do that. Or when Baelfire summoned a dove when he needed to send a message. Sheer nuts.

All this said, I'm hoping that the show ends soon. When Emma became the Dark One I got the feeling that the show's story was around three-quarters over. These characters deserve an apocalyptic punch-up in which all remaining questions are answered, not to lose their appeal as the show is renewed beyond its relevance.

Ok. So. I'm obsessed with this show. And I'm fully aware that it pretty much sucks at this point. It was SO good in the first year, and pretty good the next year. I just keep watching it and going over every detail. There are still parts that are really, objectively good. I like the themes of good and evil. I like the smarmy family thing. I like that the evil people are often the one to speak those truths that the heroes just don't want to own up to.

The women in that show are... very beautiful. Thanks to my autistic tendency to obsess, I've spent a ungodly amount of time figuring out exactly when Jennifer Morrison had that mole on her upper left chest removed. (It was sometime while they were doing the pilot of Once Upon a Time. I think they were disguising the scar in the first episode. And she it was visible in How I Met Your Mother.) I went back and watched all of J.M.'s old stuff. The rest of the cast is harder. Lana P was in pretty much nothing before this. One teen movie and a part in 24. Thank goodness I don't know these people in real life. I swear, I'm not that scary in person.

But oh, god. The plot is just getting worse and worse. And the blue hair special effect!?! That actor who played Hades this season was bad enough, but then they lit up his hair... how the hell did this show get picked up for next year?

I guess part of it is that it gives my imagination enough bare bones to work out decent plots. I could totally do that final Robin Hood episode so much better!

Its hard for me to be this obsessed with TV because I'm a 41 year old adult, and this is very much a show favored by little girls. But I relate it to everything because that's what I do when I'm obsessed. And that's a lot of fun. Thinking about how magic could solve an everyday problem is a pleasant conversation to have in the back of your head.

I kind of gave up on it during the second season.

^So...your point is? I can't actually remember if I stopped at season two or three, but it doesn't matter because I'm obsessed with Clannad.

^My point is that you missed the pirate jokes, matey. There were not layers of meaning here.

Season 4A is one of my favorite string of episodes, period. There's been a lot of other moments I've loved as well. Season 5 had me pretty conflicted but there were still great parts. I'd watch Once ten seasons. Though I doubt it'd go past seven or maybe eight.

I love when people watch my shows. My fave season is season 4A, I LOVED Frozen, I need to buy season 4 again, my cat peed on it. You can preorder season 5 on Amazon, but it $47.

This is sad, and more than a little embarrassing, but I really love frozen, too.