The cliche villains verses heroes bit, and the cliche "you got a evil label so your destined to end badly" bit. Earlier seasons, they had characters with a bit of complexity and depth, like real people. For Gold to suddenly decide to be a cliche villain was just...
Then he recruits "super villains" that don't make any sense at all. Malevolent wasn't really evil, if you go by the movie named after her, and that movie showed a nicely complex character lost here. If you go by the old Disney Sleeping beauty movie, she is dead. Cruela Devil was just a stupid inept rich person with a obsession for fur, who lived on earth! She is also a shallow 2 dimensional character in 101 Dalmatians, with absolutely no skills or superpowers! She also has a dumb name (some might call it "clever", not me) Ursula was killed in Little mermaid, also she's a octopus lady who wouldn't be meeting up with others on land much.
All this turned me off from continuing to watch OUAT, but the clincher was when I tuned in for a moment and it happened to be a very badly written plot point playing right then. Golds ex-girlfriend was talking to Hook, for some reason (which I didn't see, but was probably very dumb and contrived) she felt like she couldn't hold onto the dagger, that she had to give it away to Hook. Then Hook suggests she command Gold through the Dagger to appear before her, to test if he was really still gone. Now they all know that magic users can appear as someone else through their magic, since it's happened so many times already. What she doesn't know, is if she can even command Gold through the Dagger, without him being present to hear the command. So right off the bat, its a inconclusive test, even aside from the trick.
Again, she knows that magic users can appear as anyone, if she suspects Gold is back, she has to be a real dumbass to not consider the possibility of him being in disguise as someone else. Here's a thought, command him to appear before her and tell her exactly what he is up to. Oh, but then the plot point would have fallen though, with her having the dagger, what can he do? This whole nonsense happened exactly so that Gold can get back the Dagger, and actually be a threat. Though they could have done it in many other, better ways.
Once I saw that, I confirmed my leanings to give up the series.
Then he recruits "super villains" that don't make any sense at all. Malevolent wasn't really evil, if you go by the movie named after her, and that movie showed a nicely complex character lost here. If you go by the old Disney Sleeping beauty movie, she is dead. Cruela Devil was just a stupid inept rich person with a obsession for fur, who lived on earth! She is also a shallow 2 dimensional character in 101 Dalmatians, with absolutely no skills or superpowers! She also has a dumb name (some might call it "clever", not me) Ursula was killed in Little mermaid, also she's a octopus lady who wouldn't be meeting up with others on land much.
All this turned me off from continuing to watch OUAT, but the clincher was when I tuned in for a moment and it happened to be a very badly written plot point playing right then. Golds ex-girlfriend was talking to Hook, for some reason (which I didn't see, but was probably very dumb and contrived) she felt like she couldn't hold onto the dagger, that she had to give it away to Hook. Then Hook suggests she command Gold through the Dagger to appear before her, to test if he was really still gone. Now they all know that magic users can appear as someone else through their magic, since it's happened so many times already. What she doesn't know, is if she can even command Gold through the Dagger, without him being present to hear the command. So right off the bat, its a inconclusive test, even aside from the trick.
Again, she knows that magic users can appear as anyone, if she suspects Gold is back, she has to be a real dumbass to not consider the possibility of him being in disguise as someone else. Here's a thought, command him to appear before her and tell her exactly what he is up to. Oh, but then the plot point would have fallen though, with her having the dagger, what can he do? This whole nonsense happened exactly so that Gold can get back the Dagger, and actually be a threat. Though they could have done it in many other, better ways.
Once I saw that, I confirmed my leanings to give up the series.
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