Once Upon a Time

Watched 6 eps so far. The comparison to Lost was
a lucky guess. They were trapped on an island,
these people are trapped in a town they can't
leave. It's a puzzle why they're there, and we're
shown constant flashbacks as to who they really
are. And it's on the same network, ABC. Puh-leeze..

Ginnifer Goodwin and Robert Carlyle save the show.
Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin is remarkable, over the
top acting. But can it save this Lost reincarnation.

Doubtful. It's getting tedious already. Series like this
are a form of masturbation. You keep watching and
watching, hoping for release, and none ever comes.
Sorry for the obvious metaphors.

The writers look for ways to string you along, and string
you along, there is no point, there is no purpose. I
learned my lesson with Lost. Do I really need to learn
it again?

Once Upon a Time on ABC is up against (CBS The Amazing Race) Fox (The Simpsons & Bob's Burgers/Family Guy) and NBC (Football Night in America /Sunday Night Football).

It was basically designed as a show to appeal to women. It had a good premise, but it is going to get more tedious as you watch more episodes.

Quote: Pacomartin

but it is going to get more tedious as you watch more episodes.

Not gonna happen, I forgot how boring and predictable
episodic network TV is. By ep 6 the CGI was cut back to
nothing. The stories are silly, it's a high budget soap
opera. The evil queen is the snarky mayor who has her
busy-body nose stuck in everybody in the towns business.
Emma is a tough-acting guy-woman who never smiles
and has a chip on her shoulder a mile high. The constant
flashbacks to fairytale land are becoming trite and cheezy.
The know it all young kid is getting really boring, he has
the answer to every question and pops up unexpectedly
everywhere, just like the evil queen mayor. I can't imagine
60 more episodes of this, no wonder the ratings tanked.

Like a soap, its all about relationships. With the mayor continue
to get laid by the sheriff. Will Snow White succeed in stealing
Charming from his wife. Will the girl who had the baby be
accepted into her boyfriends family. Will Emma ever hook up
with Ruby the waitress, it's only makes sense.

They managed a good first 3 episodes and then it went
downhill fast. Cutting out the expensive CGI was a big
mistake, the quality of the show is gone. Fairytaleland
looks like a bunch of bad actors in Halloween costumes
without it.

If you want fantasy, I highly recommend French series. It is much sexier, darker, and far more interesting than OUAT.

The Returned (Les Revenants) 2012 TV-MA On returning home and finding they're believed to be dead, a collection of near-strangers from the same village try to find a reason for their plight. (8 episodes)

It got picked up for season 2, comes out the end
of this year. Long wait between seasons. I might
try it, tho am not a fan of subtitles. I usually
stay away from zombie things, I don't understand
the premise. I've only seen one zombie movie, it
starred Woody Harrelson and was awful. I don't
get what motivates zombies. Vampires I get.

I read a bunch of negative reviews for OUAT and this one
sums it up nicely:

"This series is so jaw-droppingly bad, my mind was boggled by the dribbling accolades of other viewers. Then I saw a review that said something like, "If you were a fan of "Lost" just stay tuned! You'll LOVE it!!!!" (I may have left out a ! or two.) Of course, that reviewer was absolutely right. I've watched maybe a half dozen episodes, and the writers have changed the paradigm at least four times. That is, they used the now-famous "Lost" principle of fantasy writing: if you introduce enough confusing minor side plots, oddly compelling but ultimately pointless minor characters, ersatz "mysteries" and alarming character about-faces that have the main actors alternately weeping for their lost innocence and true loves and then ripping out and eating the raw hearts of infants - well then by gum, this is the show for you! But- and I do absolutely and personally guarantee this- you will NEVER see anything like a real plot resolution, because the writers and producers plan to throw so many complications into the mix that they think, and past experience has shown, that the fans are too dim to remember more than a few of the most glamorous or grisly, so however they end it, no one will care, and few will notice that in any way that matters, the whole thing just stunk on ice."

That's what happened with Lost. The show got more
and more convoluted and confusing and we continued
to watch anyway. But some of us learned from that and
are not so easily sucked in a second time. I felt X Files
was somewhat like that, lots of side trips and never any
plot resolution. Ask a lot of questions and never provide
any answers.

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I usually stay away from zombie things, I don't understand the premise.

Hot looking people in this show

Just to return to the Original Post, I saw that Once Upon a Time hit a new low on Sunday, and is now at about half it's pilot episode audience. It started as ABC's 2nd place drama, dropped to 4th in it's second year, and is headed for 6th place this year.

The ratings are not so horrible that they will cancel the show. But after next year when they hit 88 episodes they may end it if it continues to slide.

I watched one more last night and it drove me nuts.
A wolf leads Emma and the sheriff to a tomb, and
as soon as they break in I say 'where is the mayor'?
And blamo! there she is just coincidentally bringing
flowers to her family crypt. The sheriff dies and
Emma is just about to pin on the badge and whamo!
the mayor just happens to pop in. This happens all.the.time.
It makes you want to shoot the TV. I'm really done
this time.

Quote: Evenbob

By the 5th episode I'm sure I'll be tearing
this show apart, I'm very hard to please.
Or easy to displease. It's already bothersome
about the kid. He's 11 when the show starts
and 3 years in he's now 14. Whatever he
had going for him in 2011 has to be gone.

Like 2 1/2 men. The best shows are when the
kid was little, and as he grew it became less
and less funny. They're at the point now where
he's pretty much gone from the show. Like I
watch it anymore anyway..

The kid was booted because of his unsavory comments made about the show (well unsavory for some, religious babble to others and the truth to yet another sub group).
I must admit I still find the show very funny on occasion. I don't like Ashton Kutcher but John Cryer carries the show along with Clark Duke who I find very funny (he plays "Barry") Conchatta Ferrel will also remain funny even though they use much less of her these days.

Sometimes I find it more funny than my other favorite, Bing Bang Theory.