Ways to fix Season Two
*notably without hugely altering the overarching plot or direction of the season finale.
These enable you to keep pretty much every episode and arc intact, with only small tweaks.
I think this can be done fairly easily at this point, knowing everything that’s going…
Look everyone, DATA!
For pop-culture data nerds out there, here are the ratings (18-49) for Once Upon A Time, Season 2.
It started strong at a 3.9. And then…..”Bad things, Mikey. Bad things“…the season wrapped with a 2.3.
Hmmmm…me thinks there be a problem. And I don’t think Neverland is going to save you.
Forget the Henry kidnapped scenario. I say OUAT should just go whole hog and kill Henry. When in doubt, get your “Game of Thrones” ON and show the kid to the “Moon Door” :-P
“Callie isn’t a victim; she’s never really been a victim and she’s been cheated on before with George. So how she’s going to take this and what she’s going to do next is going to be the bigger issue.”
Ever meet someone who always seems to have a lot of bad stuff happening to them? Their lives are always disasters. I actually have a sister like this. She’s educated, intelligent, has everything going for her but she has drama attracted to her like a magnet. I always wondered why someone who appears to have it all together always seems to be in the middle of chaos.
The only thing Callie Torres is a victim of, is herself. Her decisions, and her own wreckless behavior. Is this what you’re getting at, Shonda? Because that’s how I am reading into it.
Callie is one of those people who fails to see the writing on the wall. All these clues and indicators flash in front of her face scream “Warning” and what does she do? She turns a blind eye and convinces herself that everything is just fine. Callie is not a victim, because she puts herself in situations where there is a potential to be a victim. If a person makes wreckless decisions and doesn’t ponder the consequences, they are playing the victim, not actually a victim. And there’s a big difference.
The writing was on the wall with George, and now Arizona, and she failed to read it. This is her characters nature and she creates her own reality.
She’s my favorite character because she’s brilliant & charismatic but lost, powerful but goofy, outstanding but modest. She’s written to be this force that always seems to fail. It is possible for people to be brilliant but continuously make bad decisions. It makes her the underdog that everyone roots for.
But you can’t keep rooting for someone who keeps putting themselves into situations where they are going to get hurt. I always say this to my sister, you are making your own misery and you’re smart enough to understand that, so why do you expect me to feel sorry for you anymore?
And like everyone is saying on here, she needs to become independent in her own mind before she can repair other people’s problems or be in a relationship with other people. She’s one of those people who think she’s defined by the relationship she’s in and not by who she is, herself, in that relationship. Once she figures out who she is, and what she stands for, the pieces start falling into place with who’s the right person for her to be with.
I’d like to think that person is Arizona. Because I believe Arizona had all this stuff figured out already. She knew who she was, what she wanted, where she was going, and then the roles seemed to reverse.
I believe that Callie isn’t going to crumble and fall apart. I think she’s going to go the opposite route and become stronger.
Yes and yes! Callie doesn’t know how to be single and makes these choices to cling to something else because she never thinks she’s enough. Never knows how good she is as a person, a doctor, even a spouse. Even Cristina said “you have hardly ever been single”.
She loves so blindly that she doesn’t see when trouble is on the horizon and she wants to do patchwork repairs. When her life sometimes actually calls for surgical repairs.
Her worst nightmare as I have observed was losing Arizona. Now that that has happened and the blinders are off her choices moving forward are going to be very interesting. She has now lost control (something she was desperately clinging to) of her marriage and life. We are going to see something unpredictable from her I think. But her eyes are open now.
Yes, yes and yes! Callie needs to be with Arizona because she loves her and she can’t really love her until she chooses her. And by choosing her I mean actively deciding rather than just, ‘I don’t want to be alone.” And that means doing first the personal work, and then the two of them doing the work of finding their way back to each other. I remember oncfe reading something by a family therapist that really stuck with me… there is a difference between loving someone because you need them (not healthy - puts the onus on them to make you ok) vs needing someone because you love them (healthy - you are ok in yourself, you just happen to actively love and choose this person)
One other thing - I think the George illusions are tripping us all up, or at least some people (me included, initially). I say that because George didn’t love Callie and vice versa, so some were/are making this leap to, “Oh, if we’re comparing them to Callie and George, that means just like C/G, none of the love/good moments were real. That’s a huge leap and I think it’s wrong. I know it’s wrong, tbh. George would never have had the strength to stick by Callie through a big fight with her parents. Callie would never have had the strength to stick by George the way she has with Arizona. Neither of them genuinely cared enough to do that. But so far, because they haven’t done the personal work they need to give them the resilience to make it out the other side.
I still say mpdays is right and ultimately this story’s theme is going to be “What holds us together when it all falls apart.”
the constant fear of labeling someone as your best friend because they probably don’t feel the same way because no one ever likes you as much as you like them
(Source: stllinski, via robbie-blue)
Could someone tell me, finally, how to distinguish the difference between Ema and Sara? That must be a way. They aren’t perfectly identical.
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I won’t be mad at or upset with or disappointed in Kate if she says no. Do I want her to say yes? Absolutely. I’m a shipper; it’s what we do. But… Castle was clearly proposing for at least some of the wrong reasons. He loves her, yes. He wants to be with her. But he also doesn’t want to lose her,…
So much for not seeing an image of it. Oh well.. I am not watching it, though. I shall resist. ;)
I will say, whatever the big thing is going to be at the end, they will NOT give us anything in the sneaks. In fact, they’re far more likely to give us stuff that sends us in the wrong direction. Look how we all viewed that sneak of Arizona/Lauren/Jackson from 9x22… we figured she was a ONS from Arizona’s past. They know how to fake us out.
@mpdays - reading speculation doesn’t bother me. Even reading spoilers themselves. But in terms of actually seeing the acting - the way it is actually played - that I am trying to avoid. I’ve read scripts of entire plays and then seen them, and gotten completely different perspectives both times. I’m an acting junkie. I love to analyze performances.
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