February 8, 2014

[hughville.livejournal.com]

All About The Oncers!

Answer the following questions so we can all know each other better!

Be respectful of the actors or other members. People are allowed to express an opinion.


1. When did you start watching OUaT?

2. Why did you start watching OUaT?

3. Who is your favorite character and why?

4. Who is your least favorite character and why?

5. What is your favorite episode and why? (You can choose just one or one from each season because it can be so hard to choose!)

6. What is your least favorite episode and why? (You can choose just one or one from each season.)

7. Do you have a favorite ship? Tell us why you love these two together.

8. Which fairy tale character would you like to see on Once and which actor should play this character? (NO spoilers, please!)

9. Which actor would you like to see guest star on Once?

10. Which country are you from?

Comments

[katleept.livejournal.com]

1. When did you start watching OUaT?
The very first episode!

2. Why did you start watching OUaT?
We've always loved fairy tales and Disney, so Once looked awesome at the start!

3. Who is your favorite character and why?
Rumpelstiltskin. His personality and style are great, his strength awesome, his cunning delightful! I've always loved a great three-dimensional villain, and we've both always loved Beast! I liked him almost from the start but fell in character love as his personality and history continued to be explored.
I've said it many times before, but it can't be said enough. Crippling himself to make certain his son would have his father was an act of bravery, not cowardice, and from that moment on, I've been seriously attached to Rumpel!

4. Who is your least favorite character and why?
Tamara. She's the only character I can honestly say I hated from the start. Of course, I was a bit of a SwanFire fan then.

5. What is your favorite episode and why? (You can choose just one or one from each season because it can be so hard to choose!)
I'm not good at keeping episodes separate in my head, but I'd have to go with Child of the Moon, I think, the one that explores Ruby's friendship with Snow and where she almost gets a pack.

6. What is your least favorite episode and why? (You can choose just one or one from each season.)
Don't have one

7. Do you have a favorite ship? Tell us why you love these two together.
RUMBELLE!!!!!!!!!! First of all, love Beauty and the Beast, and secondly, I love Rumpel and the way Belle worked her way into his heart!

8. Which fairy tale character would you like to see on Once and which actor should play this character? (NO spoilers, please!)
Pocahontas, but I don't have any one specific in mind to play her. She's just my favorite of the Disney Princesses and never gets enough love.
Also, I would LOVE to see more actual animal characters, like Pongo still being a dog not like Gus now being a human and having been a mouse, appear, especially the Aristocats and Lion King characters!

9. Which actor would you like to see guest star on Once?
Johnny Depp, but I can think of a lot of ones who would be wonderful! Charisma Carpenter and Catherine Zeta Jones top my list of actresses.

10. Which country are you from?
USA

[ramasi.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Rumple and lack of cowardice, I actually think it was pretty brave of him to walk onto that pirate ship in The Crocodile to ask the pirates to give his wife back, please, while knowing full well he couldn't take any of these people in a fight.

[katleept.livejournal.com]

It was indeed, but I don't hear people, both characters and fans, lashing him nearly as much for that moment as for the crippling. There were many times he showed courage before he got his magic, but sadly, he was never given the credit he should have been. Can you think of any father who did as much for his child as Rumpel did? I mean, part of him even wanted the magic at first not so much for himself as for his son.

[limbomonkey.livejournal.com]

Me too.

Killing Zoso was also pretty brave of him, and I didn't necessarily see him abandoning Bae as an act of fear but more out of love of power. I'm just not buying the coward bit. It's like the characters just say that because that was his father's reputation, but I don't know if I buy that part either...

[ramasi.livejournal.com]

Yesyesyes, I agree! (I have this whole Rumple-essay waiting somewhere called something like "more self-serving than craven" – it's not that I don't think Rumple is never ever cowardly, it's just that I don't think it's as defining a character trait of his as people, Rumple himself occasionally included, claim). About his motivations in letting go of Bae not being as clear-cut as that, I mean . It's Rumple choosing one thing over the other in that moment (and Neal seems to see it that way too, when he accuses him of choosing "all that" *making typical Rumplestiltskin-gesture* over him): If fear plays a role in that choice, that doesn't mean it's all there is to it.