tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191103401125615282.post5278136342081846693..comments2024-01-07T11:28:52.468-08:00Comments on The (TV) Revolution Will Be Analyzed : In Which I Review Once Upon A Time (4x8)Jacquelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417436811849433401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191103401125615282.post-90112599800642936952014-11-18T12:26:45.471-08:002014-11-18T12:26:45.471-08:00Yes, Rumple has done really terrible things. But t...Yes, Rumple has done really terrible things. But the difference is that those terrible decisions were well reasoned within the writing. I've never justified his killing of Milah, but you could understand WHY he was doing all this. And when he manipulated Regina and half of the EF to get to our world, there was a (for me) sympathetic reasoning behind it--Nealfire. And even if it wasn't sympathetic, it was clear and logical.<br /><br /> But now, I don't know why he simply wants ALL the power. There is no reason behind it besides "I am a villain." He needs to do some explaining. If he were to suddenly say that getting all this power served some purpose--nefarious or otherwise--then I would go from there. But as it stands, he's just running through SB grabbing power from people for no clear reason outside of self interest and addiction. Yet, at the start of the season, he decided to give up all that to honor Neal, decided to give the dagger back to Belle. And then a sudden plot device (hat!) appears and he's just pure evil. It doesn't compute, and all the character development of the past 3 seasons (like sacrificing himself) is just POOF up in smoke. <br /><br />I understand if can't see it as wrong or illogical--that's what analyzing TV is about, right? I know others agree with me, not that this makes me "right." Subjectivity means none of us are right. <br /><br />The less I say about Regina the better. Between Robin and the whole "this book made me a villain" nonsense I want to claw my eyes out. <br /><br />Thanks for reading!Jacquelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10417436811849433401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6191103401125615282.post-10818478522304684452014-11-18T12:14:09.932-08:002014-11-18T12:14:09.932-08:00"I don't even recognize the man who stood..."I don't even recognize the man who stood in a dark wood and pleaded for forgiveness from the man he thought was his son, or begged to hold the hand of Neal as he thought he lay dying."<br /><br />He was also the man who murdered his ex-wife in cold blood, who manipulated a woman into killing one of his ex-lovers in order to survive and then threw said woman under the bus for it, and who was seconds away from murdering his own grandson regardless of the anguish it would cause his own beloved son. The good things he's done and sympathetic moments he's had does not and should not negate all the monstrous stuff or somehow make it impossible for him to commit any more such crimes.<br /><br />It was said way back in 1x19 that Baelfire was the ONLY thing keeping his humanity alive when he's the Dark One, it makes perfect sense that his death would push Rumple into full-on villainy. He wanted to change and thought a happy married life with Belle could do it, but it can't. Not so long as he has power and the opportunity to gain more. Until/unless Rumple is completely depowered and returned to the regular peasant he used to be, nobody in-show and out of it should trust him to do the right thing. That's what Robert Carlyle has always said, even recently, is the appeal of the character: he is capable make the right choices and often wants to, but will inevitably make what he knows full well are the wrong choices because he's been just THAT damaged and addicted to power over the centuries, and the results will complicate things for everyone.<br /><br />I honestly can't see anything wrong or illogical with how Rumple is being written here, it's Regina's presentation (for both the book fuckery and the -literal- fuckery with Robin Hood) that's grating on my nerves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com