#thanksforasking

I can't attach multiple videos anyway but ngl this part is tickle-coded to me

I got pissed on more than once 🙈🙈🙈 And I love to rim a man…

Yes I literally wasted an hour of my life to put her in her house robe 

Here’s my thing–I love literary and structural analysis like Linus loves his blankie. It fascinates me. It enhances my enjoyment of a show. But that kind of analysis demands–to some extent–an objective eye.

It’s a very, very different monster than speculation.

I can’t even begin to count the number of asks I get from people who say–here’s my theory and here’s a list of things I think point to it being true. And I can tell just by reading that the theory came first and then they went cherry picking for information to back it up.

That’s not how analysis works. You always need to analyze forward–never backward. But listen–I’m not here to be anyone’s dream killer or to rain on anyone’s parade. Speculation is fun and people should turn their imagination loose and see where it takes them.

But they also need to not lose sight of the fact that it’s just speculation. The story may very well go in a totally different direction.You can’t get so attached to your spec that if things don’t happen the way you theorized you consider them “wrong”.

And when I’m reading about specific lines or singular pieces of blocking being used to bolster a theory of where the story is headed–I’m sorry but no. That’s not how it works.You can’t cherry pick.

The piece has to be viewed as a whole.

So many times people jump to conclusions based on wildly broad parallels such as trying to equate Snow and Charming’s path to love with Hook and Emma’s.Since thus and such happened with characters A&B then it’ll be repeated with C&D. That’s a parallel. Well yes and no.

All fairy tale love stories are going to have certain points in common. That doesn’t make them parallel and it is certainly not an indicator of what’s to come.

You need to step back and look at larger thematic parallels to get an idea of where things are going.

Look people can have their opinions on what direction the show is headed in and they can be displeased and expound on the reasons why and that’s fine. You do you. But what makes me grind my teeth is their insistence that “it’s all right there on the screen.”

No, it isn’t. From a strictly structural viewpoint it isn’t.

I understand frustration with a storyline. I feel it all the time myself. But that doesn’t mean I can’t still look at what’s onscreen and see what path the writers and creatives are on. Just because I might not like the way a certain storyline is progressing doesn’t mean the characters are acting OOC and the writers have suddenly lost their talent or gotten their hate on.

What I see being bandied about regarding the marginalization of Hook is just not supportable by the evidence on the screen. 

OUAT is an ensemble drama. The nature of ensemble drama is that most of the characters are going to alternate between front and back burner storylines. Everyone does their turn as the exposition fairy. Everyone gets a turn to serve as counterpoint. It’s the nature of drama.

I’d happily tune in every week and watch the Captain Swan show for an hour but that’s not what this show is about.

But if you can’t look at Captain Swan and see that it is the equivalent of shipper Nirvana and that very few other ships have it as good–or have ever had it as good–man I don’t know. And if you don’t believe the genuine affection A&E have for the characters of Hook and Emma is visible onscreen–I just don’t get it.