#ouat spoilers

[eve-reviews]

ㅤ Once Upon a Time is a thirteen-year old’s fanfiction that was found by the creators of Lost and stolen for a show in hopes of making some money off the teen population. If the half-formed faux-edgy characters or bad acting doesn’t sell you on just how poorly this show was made, the terrible CGI definitely will. The first season revolves around a character named Emma Swan, aka The Savior, coming to the town of Storybrooke where her son tries to convince her that the town is actually full of fairytale characters that are under a memory erasing spell. The show has a way of making you forget that you’re watching a fairytale story until later you realize that “Oh! They just had Prince Charming cheat on his wife with Snow White. And then The Evil Queen framed Snow White for the murder of Prince Charming’s wife by hiding that wife’s heart in a box in the place Snow and Charming would always meet.”

ㅤ While the first season seems Wild, each subsequent season tries to outdo itself. The following seasons follow a clear formula constantly trying to convince you that it’s a good show. The creator’s favorite persuasion is to twist the usual fairytale stories and then play a dramatic stinger underneath it as if to convince the viewer to say, “oh shit!” Each time it makes this attempt, I am met with an intense feeling, but not the intended one. It’s a burst of laughter, a burn of secondhand embarrassment, and the impulse to share it with a friend so I don’t have to go through it alone (and may I say, I think my friends are starting to get sick of me).

            The show is held together by attempts to be a show that makes the viewer sit at the edge of the seat waiting to see what happens next. These attempts often involve corrupting or redeeming a “good” or “evil” character respectively. While the show constantly brings in numerous characters from Disney movies or any other existing story for that matter (such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), it seems to forget this sometimes, so we are left with characters who have been corrupted and redeemed 6 times alone (in Rumpelstiltskin’s case).

            Might I also add that the show often does a twist saying that two fairytale characters were actually the same one. If we take Rumpelstiltskin as an example again, he is at least three different characters off the top of my head. He also happens to be the Crocodile from Peter Pan and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. This isn’t even counting the family tree. Please feel free to skip the rest of this paragraph while I sort that out. Rumpelstiltskin is the son of Peter Pan (who’s evil) and the Black Fairy (who’s the origin of all evil or something?). He has a grandson, Henry, who is also the grandson of Snow White and Prince Charming. Henry also happens to be the adopted son of Regina, aka The Evil Queen. Regina if the daughter of the Queen of hearts and the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West. She’s also Snow White’s step-mother. Regina also happens to be soulmates with Robin Hood, who’s previous wife was sentenced to death by Regina before the curse. And Robin also had a daughter with the Wicked Witch but he didn’t know it was her at the time because she was pretending to be his dead wife.

            I’m stopping myself there. If you read any of that, you now hopefully know how complicated the lore is and how near impossible it is to explain. You may have also gleaned how fucking stupid it is. That was all just a small section of the family tree. The actual lore of this show involves people who are definitively good or evil (but they can be redeemed) and authors who are all powerful gods who control Everything but are also just Some Guy. And of course, a being of pure light magic called The Savior (Emma Swan aka Snow White and Prince Charming’s child) and a being of pure dark magic called The Dark One (Rumplestiltskin). I forced myself through the show. High out of my mind if I had to. And I gotta say, folks.

            I kinda love this show.

            At some point it starts to get confusing what the creators were thinking while making this show. You drive yourself crazy trying to put yourself in their heads. Do they know how dogshit it is? Are they trying to convince me this dogshit is actually fucking ratatouille? Or do they know it’s bad?

            By the end of season 6, I started to get the feeling that the writers had finally decided to accept that no one in the universe would consider this a good show; however, the show must go on so they may as well have fun with it. They finally left behind the attempts and just leaned into how bizarre the lore they’re spun truly is. They timeskip and they say. “Hey. We know that we’ve gone too far. We know we crossed a line somewhere along the way. But buddy? We’re not turning around. We’re gonna find throw back some brewskis and have a little fun.” And they decide to say that, “Actually? All those characters you just saw? The seemingly infinite number of them? That’s just the start. They’re just one of an actually infinite number of that same character that exists in the multiverse. We’re gonna make a new main character and she’s gonna be Cinderella. Yes, I know we already introduced Cinderella in season one. But this is a different Cinderella. From a different thirteen tear old’s fanfiction. “

            And so it becomes a show that clearly knows it’s bad. And I sit there and realize I had fun. And I realize that I’m still having fun. And I realize that that was the point. I spent the whole show taking everything so seriously, and for that, I partially blame the show for taking itself seriously. But somewhere along the way, the show stopped. And I followed suit shortly after. And it was fun.

            I loved watching Once Upon a Time.

#once upon a time #ouat #ouat spoilers #Once Upon a Time spoilers

[victoriously-wicked]

🎶In the arms of an angel…🎶 @whipjack

I present to you, the permanent (-ish) deaths of Once Upon a Time s3.

I got inspired binging Haley Whipjack’s s3 analysis video, definitely my favourite OUAT season video essay that has been made so far on that channel. Anyway, enjoy this piece and check out all of Haley’s OUAT videos that have been completed so far (s1-3).

#once upon a time #ouat #ouat fanart #userstorybrooke #userswanmills #peter pan #zelena mills #neal cassidy #baelfire #felix ouat #greg ouat #tamara ouat #regina mills #emma swan #rumplestiltskin #ouat edit #swanfire #onceuponatimeedit #ouat spoilers #ouat humor #ouat crack #haley whipjack

[pumpernickel-simswood]

I'm on season seven, episode four of Once Upon A Time and are you absolutely kidding me!? They're dragging Up into this!? For part of how much of a "good man" Rumple is?! Screw all the way off! Jfc.

#ouat #ouat spoilers #ouat s7 spoilers #once upon a time #once upon a time spoilers #once upon a time s7 #once upon a time s7 spoilers #nick liveblogs #i am so mad about this. like more than anything else they've pulled. why're they insulting Carl like this!? He's actually a good man #nick rants

[hooked-on-swanics]

Killian is dead. Do you know who else is dead? Cruella de Vil. Peter Pan. An Underworld canon divergence exploring what the 5B arc could have looked like if Hades had used Cruella and Pan to their fullest capabilities in order to further his reign of terror.

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The first chapter of my first fanfic is up on AO3, and it is my sincerest hope that it will punch you in the gut <33

#ouat #ouat fanfiction #killian jones #captain swan #once upon a time #captain hook #ouat s5 #stef writes #ouat spoilers

[emmaloo21butwriting]

I have not finished OUAT, I am on season 3 like half way, just past Neverland.

I want there to be a Lost Land, where all the broken or messed up fairytales went. So the evil ones go, or the ones that didn’t make it.

I want to write about it, like an X Reader, but no character for them to be in love with, just you being the princess there or something, because you were messed up.

like Rapunzel with the flower and her mom, you can travel realms because your mom ate magic beans

#Spoilers #ouat spoilers #Not serious spoilers tho #x reader #Ouat #henry mills #once upon a time #emma swan #hook #captain hook #killian jones #peter pan #felix #regina mills #evil queen #disney x reader #disney #disney animation #disney movies #walt disney #pocahontas #aladdin

[thepunkmuppet]

finally watching once upon a time and REALLY enjoying it so far!!!

regina and emma are lesbian as fuck, the guy playing rumpelstiltskin is a proper force of nature he’s AWESOME, and I actually adore mary margaret / snow white and the prince, those are some top tier straight people right there

regina is really compelling to me, as are mary margaret and james as I said, and I’m enjoying the sort of double storytelling with the modern world and the fairytale world. hoping that there’s an edit of all the flashbacks in order somewhere online though, because we’re jumping around a lot and I think with this many seasons it will get confusing very quickly!!

also loving the ongoing mystery of whether regina and mr gold remember their fairytale lives, makes for some interestingly dubious character motivations. I’m honestly obsessed with regina I can’t even lie she’s such a melodramatic bitch lmao

can’t get behind graeme and emma though, like they have ok chemistry but the writing really doesn’t serve them, they just spring it upon you and expect you to believe they have this connection which they just… don’t??

EDIT BC I WAS WATCHING WHILE TYPING THIS, REGINA DOES REMEMBER HER OLD LIFE AND OH SHIT GRAEME’S FUCKING DEAD RIP KING

#once upon a time #danny watches ouat #ouat spoilers #once upon a time spoilers

[elenasalvator13]

Swan and Killian

#captain swan #captain hook #once upon a time #ouat cast #ouat #once upon a time imagine #once upon a time edit #once upon a time quote #my ediit #ouat edit #ouat fandom #ouat hook #ouat spoilers #emma and killian #emma and hook #aesthetic moodboard #aestehtic #moodboard #my moodboards #moodboards #quotes moodboard #quotes aesthetic #quotes #ouat s4 #ouat s5 #ouat s3 #ouat s6 #ouat s7 #ouat s2 #my edit

[victoriously-regal]

I'm sorry but I'm dying on the hill that Kathryn / Abigail deserved better. She was screwed over so badly, both before and during the curse. My girl just wanted her Frederick, and also to go law school. Is that too much to ask!?

She deserved the world.

#once upon a time #ouat #userswanmills #kathryn nolan #oncers #ouat spoilers #ouat rant

[kazoosandfannypacks]

yup. confirmed.

i still can't rewatch "murder most foul" without squealing and happy stimming through the entire scene where killian is talking with archie

#once upon a time #ouat #killian jones #captain swan #archibald hopper #once upon a time season 6 #murder most foul #ouat spoilers

[firefighterdiass]

rumplestilskin and belle as the new embodiment of the beauty and the beast makes me very happy and emotional because why tf is it cute but still hot but very warm and fuzzy? and why do i like that rumple is way older than belle? or that belle is so in love with rumple despite everything? or that rumple fell hard for belle and never for anyone else after her for years till they reunited again? i have issues i swear but im embracing it<3

#once upon a time #ouat #rumple x belle #rumplestiltskin #belle x mr. gold #mr gold #fairy tales #with a twist #recreating #ouat spoilers

[average-acorn]

I am DEVASTATED I just learned mulan ends the show still single and slowly getting over aurora I was SO convinced she ended up as ruby's girlfriend I-. turns out that's an entirely different character.

#you're telling me BOTH my ouat blorbos end up heartbroken losers (just like me) #ouat #once upon a time #ouat spoilers

[victoriously-wicked]

While I absolutely adore OUAT, something that I constantly find myself completely baffled by is HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK. . .

. . .

. . . my feelings about Zelena went from “istg, I hope the Swan-Mills-Charming-Stilskin squad end up defeating her and she dies” in s3, s4, and s5A, to then pulling a 180 and turning into “istg I love her so much. If she dies, I’m gonna riot” in s5B, s6, and s7.

Like, she went from me wishing death upon her, to becoming one of my favourite characters?!

It just goes to show how awesomely talented Bex Mader is.

I-JUST HOW?!?!?

#ouat rant #zelena mills #ouat #once upon a time #oncers #zelena ouat #zelena rant #emmaswan #rebecca mader #swan mills family #ouat spoilers #Also I love any and all Zelena-Regina scenes so much #I’d deadass watch an entire show of just those two #Anyway I’m rambling now #But yeah those are my feeling on Zelena

[aveline-amelia]

You may think you have bad luck with ships...

But have you ever shipped a small ship that was sort of hated on in fandom but mostly just not considered and then suddenly when you're not into the show that much anymore it goes... semi-canon when they hook up but one half of the ship is actually the evil alterego split using a Jekyll & Hyde potion and the other half is basically just using her while being hung up on his ex wife?

And the "good side' still only has a platonic relationship with him but she deduces the two of them are a thing and has to announce to like the whole cast of characters that they always had chemistry and they are all super shocked and/or make grossed out faces?

And the fandom is joining in about how gross this thing is because the man had an affair with the women's mother and was speculated to be her father for years despite that fact being debunked in the very episode and he was also kept as a slave non consensually by her sister who had a thing for him and he tried to seduce her in order to escape?

And you don't know how you feel because you never had any hope in the first place and also you never expected to be right and this is like the worst way for it to happen ever but you'll take what you can get? Like this is supposed to be Your Moment.

#golden queen #also maybe I've got it backwards and it's actually the best luck #beating the odds and all that #ouat spoilers #if anyone needs those #or doesn't need i guess #once upon a time spoilers

[how-masterful]

I genuinely cannot belive I'm half way through series 3 of OUAT and not only has my opinion on Hook changed but now we're in fucking OZ???

#ouat spoilers #ouat #once upon a time #once upon a time spoilers

[starmoongirlwitch]

Once upon a time in wonderland

#once upon a time #ouatiw #ouat #once upon a time in wonderland #jafar #ouat spoilers #emma swan #ouatedit #anastasia tremaine #jafarouat #vidding #Youtube

[songsofnoble]

rewatching once upon a time and i always forget how GOOD regina's redemption arc is. same with hook, honestly. i absolutely eat up redemption storylines when they're done well.

#once upon a time #ouat #regina mills #killian jones #ouat rumple #ouat hook #ouat regina #ouat rewatch #ouat spoilers