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Days like today …

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,… are days I wish I still wrote fanfic. Perhaps more accurately, days like today remind me why I started writing fanfic in the first place.

I’m kinda wishing I hadn’t checked tumblr this morning. I could have done without those spoilers until next wednesday when I can see the new episode on netflix (I’m UK based). I could have had another few days of blissful ignorance.

I have to say my tendency with fanfic would be to undo some of what has already been done. However, to quote the man himself – “what you’ve done can not be undone” – and so maybe I can brainstorm how it could be fixed from now on.

Wow this is hard. I will have to think more on this. Do you think maybe this is why the writers have trouble? They write something and then realize they have written themselves into a corner, so they have to do crazy unrealistic character-wrecking stuff to get out of said corner?

So long as the show is on air, and the writers don’t go so far down the rabbit hole they can’t return, there is still hope – the possibility of that happy ending is a powerful thing.

“I learned a long time ago, that when you find something that is worth fighting for then you never give up.”

That applies to Rumbelle, OutlawQueen, the show in general. This is not the end – not yet anyway.

Full disclosure I don’t ship OutlawQueen but if the spoilers are in any way accurate then man I feel so sorry for those guys, because however you ship that is just wrong. It’s like character bashing in fanfic, it can be kinda funny sometimes – in fanfic! This is supposed to be canon and they are supposed to be better than that.

Oh man I need to go read Robin4′s ‘Remember’ or something for like the 10th time. Just pretend it’s canon.

these spoilers suck#writers fix it please

5×20 – Firebird (Review)

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I didn’t think they could manage it but they did – the level of sheer stupidity cranked to eleven.

When Regina said “we can trust Zelena, give her the baby” I literally screamed at the TV. There is stretching suspension of disbelief and there is taking the piss. I can think of no conceivable in-universe explanation outside of mind control, or impersonation, or something similar. That just does not make sense.

I can’t believe it took them until episode 20 to remember Hook’s body isn’t in the Underworld. Remind me again why they thought their “plan” would ever work?

Then there’s Emma killing her sort of mentor and leaving her to bleed out in an alley – very heroic. Plus she was 26! That means she hadn’t exactly turned her life around from being in jail and having Henry at 18. I always assumed up till now that she had been straight since then. I wonder if she ever answered those charges in Phoenix …

Ugh plus again with Hook’s “sacrifice” against the Dark One’s. Sheesh erm nope, he brought them there! He kinda just took care of a problem of his own making.

Oh I could rant all day but I’m on my phone and I’m not typing out that much. I may blog properly on the PC later.

The one bright spot of the episode – as always – was Rumple. He showed some of that flair and cunning he is known for and got it done! Plus the shot of the episode (see picture) was Rumple walking through the Stargate. Oh I know it’s not really, I mean for a start it’s pink and it sort of twirled rather than rippled but as a huge Stargate fan generally (and a massive Nicholas Rush fan) it rather cheered me up.

The failed Rumbelle True Love’s kiss was rather sad but I’m going to keep everything crossed it will come right in the end. It’s not over yet.

It was nice to see a return of Stealthy, same actor and everything. I do love little touches like that. I don’t quite get why Rumple couldn’t just carry Belle out but I guess putting her in the box made her more portable. Plus it was a callback to how they didn’t quite manage to deal with Pan.

Rumple is too awesome to fail but the writers just keep making him, so the other characters don’t look bad next to him. He never does get his moment to shine. In my head canon Rumple and Regina would have gone to Neverland and got Henry back in like an hour, they know how to take care of things. Instead we had camping with the “Charming’s” and well the less said about Henry and his “sacrificing his heart to be a hero” the better.

I said I was going to stop ranting and oops erm pink Stargate + Rumple = best part of episode. That is all.

pink Stargate#rumple is awesome#there better be mind control or something#writers have lost it