Once vignettes

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So last week I was finally exasperated enough with canon Once Upon a Time that I actually started that vignette series I've talked about. Tonight I wrote another one. It's kind of fun, as long as I stick with characters I like to write about. I'm still not sure I really hear them as well as some other writers do, and I'm very shy about posting them off of LJ because of that, but I do kind of like how they're coming out. I've been posting them at 31_days, as the prompts have been really good and workable.

I may have tweaked the time of year a bit, as the first fic (the one from last year) is set sometime before Christmas. However, I don't recall mentioning Thanksgiving, so now I've decided that this is happening before Thanksgiving, too. After all, some radio stations start playing Christmas music right after Halloween, and most have started by now, so Belle could have very well heard the song Please Come Home for Christmas playing without Thanksgiving having to have passed. She would probably focus more on Christmas than Thanksgiving, since Christmas was celebrated in their original world too. (I assume.) And I decided I liked the idea of a Thanksgiving piece. I don't know if I'll actually get a second one written within the week, but maybe it would be some sort of cracky piece where the whole mismatched family is trying to celebrate Thanksgiving. I remembered David's cracky comment about how ridiculous it would be to try to have the whole family there and started to giggle.

I also actually had a brief moment of considering buying the DVDs, at least of the first two seasons. I don't know if I actually would, as I've always felt that I didn't like the show enough to actually buy it, but who knows what the future might bring.

Comments

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Yeah, the way they've been writing Rumpel is exactly my problem with Once, and has been ever since season 3B. After the extreme torture Zelena put him through for a year, it's really understandable that he's obsessed about not being under the dagger's control anymore. But they never really bring out that he suffered so much that year and they're really making him come across awful. He's been going through Hell ever since they brought him back to life in season 3B, and to me, everything they've been doing to him seriously negates the sacrifice he made in 3A (which no one other than Belle and Neal seemed to appreciate anyway, even though everyone would have died if not for what he did to stop Pan). And all this lying to Belle ruins the character development and the beautiful relationship they'd had up to that point.

I don't really like what they've done or not done with Henry either, or the whole Robin Hood/Regina mess. They shouldn't have ever been paired to begin with. The writers trying to split up Robin and Marian is sacrilege.

I think it was weird to put The Snow Queen in there, too. From what I've been hearing, she's more important to the storyline than the actual Frozen characters, which ... makes very little sense when the whole arc was supposed to be for the Frozen characters.

Frankly, I think the show is such a serious mess by now that there's no hope of them ever getting it back on track.