#but she needlessly and recklessly endangered rumple’s life by banishing him with nothing against his will he could have

[gch1995]

I quit watching after S5 because I couldn’t stand the writing in canon for anyone anymore, and the writing had gotten so inexcusably bad for everyone by then, and would continue to get worse because Kitsowitz abd these writers never learned from their mistakes that I knew not even the “happy endings” and “redemption arcs” that they tacked on at the end would feel worth it anymore when they finally did get back there anyway. Plus, after how dramatically and horrifically low Kitsowits and these writers brought CS in 5A, I knew that they were going to pull another round of cheaply shocking, contrived, and wildly ooc character assassinations on Rumbelle, both individually and as a couple (particularly Rumple) one more time to separate them and shoehorn Rumple into the villain role by making her a wildly ooc, exceedingly cruel, hypocritical, self-righteous, and stupid bitch to trigger him, and by making him overreact like a wildly ooc, cold, controlling, and threatening jackass in response to Belle when they were forced to fight over this baby for some stupid reason. I’d already read part of the spoilers for 6A that got leaked online, and I realized that I just couldn’t handle Kitsowitz and these writers pulling another round of cheaply shocking, gross, and contrived character assassination on Rumple and Belle, both individually and as a couple, so that they could separate shoehorn Rumple into the villain role, and make Rumple look bad so that they could trick the audience into thinking that Hook/CS didn’t look that bad by comparison, which they failed in doing anyway, because even 6A Rumbelle at their worst was still better than CS at their worst.

But they’d already done more than enough damage to Rumple and Belle’s individual characterizations and relationship together in canon for Hook’s benefit ever since 4A, and I was tired of trying to futilely justify it. I just couldn’t handle another round of character assassination pulled by Kitsowitz and these writers that made them look any worse then they already had for the sake of cheaply shocking, horrifying, wildly ooc, and nonsensical contrived character derailing drama™️ for Rumbelle to shoehorn Rumple into the villain role, prop up Hook/CS as the “better” couple by comparison, and retread storylines that had already been done far better throughout S1-3A, so I finally decided to quit watching after the S5 to spare myself, and dove into the land of selectively canon/canon-divergent/AU headcanon and fanon Rumbelle that still portrayed them as the individual characters and couple I had fallen in love with from S1-S3.

Kitsowitz and these writers disrespected their own canon all the time whenever it disagreed with whatever they wanted to do, even if it didn’t make any consistent or logical sense in regards to what they had previously established as canon for these characters characterizations and/or development, their own rules of magic, and storytelling, so why should any of us in this fandom still have felt beholden to respect it when it didn’t make any sense, and our favorite characters and/or couples were being very uncharacteristically and melodramatically cartoonishly evil, stupid, and unsympathetic out of nowhere for cheap shock value to fit whatever plot they pulled from their asses?

They pulled deliberate character assassinations and retcons on Emma, Rumple, and Belle in particular post S3 ish in canon OUAT in Kitsowitz and these writers desperation and laziness to sell Hook as the “redeemed” antiheroic romantic lead by forcing him into what was originally was and should have remained Neal’s place as Emma’s love interest and the bridge that connected the original main cast together as family.

Not that I had a problem with Hook being redeemed in canon to begin with, but that Kitsowitz and these writers forced him together with Emma by romanticizing and whitewashing his creepiness with her out of nowhere to do it, killed off Neal, brought back Rumple as the flanderdized on-and-off-again cheaply shocking and contrived scapegoat “big bad,” even after giving him the most consistent, sympathetic, and well-earned redemption arc in the first two-and-a-half seasons, and deliberately ruined Rumbelle, both individually and as couple to try to sell us a Hook that was “redeemed” for being a blatantly narcissistically motivated “hero,” while still going back to blatantly being a dick whenever he could find an excuse to be a bully, seek vengeance, and revert. Except by S4-S5, he was now being “justified” and/or whitewashed in the narrative for going back to being a poorly motivated and vengeful dick whenever he had the opportunity, and was even given a gold star of being a “hero” for deciding not to go through with his entirely shady and criminal scheme of trying to murder everyone in town because his girlfriend pissed him off by bringing him back as a DO. Okay, sure, he had every right to be pissed off at Emma for doing that against her wishes, regardless of her good intentions at the time, but that doesn’t mean you do a complete heel-face turn and go on a cartoonishly evil and obsessive quest to cold bloodedly murder her friends and family for vengeance. You dump her, and tell her that she fucked up for bringing you back as a DO, even if you understand she meant well. You don’t react like a vengeful sociopath, and try to murder her friends and family because you “want to hurt her.”

That being said, I don’t think the show’s steep decline in quality after the Neverland arc all had to do with Hook’s inorganic promotion to “romantic lead” either. There were signs of abuse apology, creator pet favoritism (of Regina and Hook), whitewashing, sexism, classism, racism, rape culture, retcons, ooc moments, and ridiculous contrivances, plot holes, and twists forcing these characters in directions inorganically starting to show up as early on as S2, or even late S1.

Kitsowitz and these writers clearly only had two-and-a-half seasons (S1-3A) of story and development to tell for Emma, Regina, Rumple, and Snow, who were their original core lead characters. Once they got them there at the end of 3A, they had no idea what else they were supposed to do with any of them, Hook, Belle, Neal, or any of their other remaining main characters and relationships, they broke the previously established rules of their own universe to bring back Rumple, killed off Neal, butchered Emma, Rumple, and Belle’s original sympathetic characterizations to lazily and manipulatively sell Hook as “redeemed” without having to put in any effort to actually make him an organically sympathetic character in his own right worthy of the redemption he was handed, and retconned everyone in the remaining main cast’s previously established growth from S1-S3A to retread it over and over and over again by giving them all Aesop’s Amnesia (forgetting previously learned lessons from past bad choices, mistakes, and experience) over and over and over again to force them through the hoops all over again.

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I hope this shit show is in it’s end