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Once Upon A Time
I'm not sure if I actually like this show thus far. The fairy-tale-world-meets-real-world trope has been done several times over (The 10th Kingdom, Enchanted, Princess Tutu, etc) and while each of my three examples there worked, I don't think OUAT does.
Don't get me wrong, there are certain things I liked. I like Emma being a bail bonds collector/bounty hunter for her day job. She rather reminded me of Sara Ellis from White Collar, which is a very good thing. I liked her using those skills to track down Henry the second time he disappeared, and I liked her infallible ability to tell if someone's lying.
I just worry that what makes her a strong, interesting character is going to disappear after this first episode.
Why?
Shoddy writing.
I should not be able to call what's about to happen in a show. Lonely orphan grown woman buys herself a birthday cupcake, blows out the candle? Of course a knock immediately comes on the door and it's her long-lost son. She tries to leave the town that "no one ever leaves, and when they try bad things happen"? Of course she's going to get into a car accident just at the city limits. And let's not even get into "a horrible place, where there are no happy endings" being... Maine. The Real World. Whatever. I'm just happy they didn't set the named-on-the-nose town of Storybrook in New Jersey instead. That would've gone beyond cliche and into painfully trite. Then there's the fact that no one (except Henry, apparently, who wasn't born there) ages in the town. Time has stopped. Do none of the characters notice? Does Sister Mary Margaret Blanchard not twig to the fact that she's been teaching the same classroom of children how to build birdhouses for the last twenty-eight years? Not that I should not expect this from the people who brought us Lost, but sorry, MAJOR PLOT HOLE FAIL. *drives a semi through it*
So, will I keep watching? Yes. I will also keep mocking the fairy tale world costuming; surely Prince Charming has more than one dress jacket? Not to mention the Evil Queen MUST wear black and Snow White MUST wear virginal white. I will also keep cringing at the fairy tale world fight scenes, unless they actually man up and hire someone from the SCA to choreograph them and stop using bad camerawork to try and disguise that none of the actors know WTH to do with their steel pointysticks.
At the end of it, though, I reserve the right to watch The 10th Kingdom again to wash the bad taste from my mouth.
And tonight, Grimm starts... let's see if that's any better.
Don't get me wrong, there are certain things I liked. I like Emma being a bail bonds collector/bounty hunter for her day job. She rather reminded me of Sara Ellis from White Collar, which is a very good thing. I liked her using those skills to track down Henry the second time he disappeared, and I liked her infallible ability to tell if someone's lying.
I just worry that what makes her a strong, interesting character is going to disappear after this first episode.
Why?
Shoddy writing.
I should not be able to call what's about to happen in a show. Lonely orphan grown woman buys herself a birthday cupcake, blows out the candle? Of course a knock immediately comes on the door and it's her long-lost son. She tries to leave the town that "no one ever leaves, and when they try bad things happen"? Of course she's going to get into a car accident just at the city limits. And let's not even get into "a horrible place, where there are no happy endings" being... Maine. The Real World. Whatever. I'm just happy they didn't set the named-on-the-nose town of Storybrook in New Jersey instead. That would've gone beyond cliche and into painfully trite. Then there's the fact that no one (except Henry, apparently, who wasn't born there) ages in the town. Time has stopped. Do none of the characters notice? Does Sister Mary Margaret Blanchard not twig to the fact that she's been teaching the same classroom of children how to build birdhouses for the last twenty-eight years? Not that I should not expect this from the people who brought us Lost, but sorry, MAJOR PLOT HOLE FAIL. *drives a semi through it*
So, will I keep watching? Yes. I will also keep mocking the fairy tale world costuming; surely Prince Charming has more than one dress jacket? Not to mention the Evil Queen MUST wear black and Snow White MUST wear virginal white. I will also keep cringing at the fairy tale world fight scenes, unless they actually man up and hire someone from the SCA to choreograph them and stop using bad camerawork to try and disguise that none of the actors know WTH to do with their steel pointysticks.
At the end of it, though, I reserve the right to watch The 10th Kingdom again to wash the bad taste from my mouth.
And tonight, Grimm starts... let's see if that's any better.