I just finished watching the episode and I was never as mad at their writing as I am now, and not because they didn’t write anything bad, they wrote much worse,but it was NEVER NEVER with CS. They always managed to leave the important CS scenes intact.
Well, now they have managed to ruin the most important one so far. Emma finding the ring and ruining the proposal? Being engaged with this huge secret between them? Seeing his sad face at the end of the scene??????????????
We deserved so much better than that and so did they. I am so mad and sad at the same time.
And the worst part is that they are engaged and all I feel is this anger about it being done so poorly.
They should be a shamed of themselves!!!
I don’t see the actual proposal as ruined, I must say. It actually kind of comes across as pretty good development for Emma who went from ‘one night only’ to her running out on Walsh’s proposal to chucking herself into the arms of her lover before he asks with her answer. It’s lovely to see her so confident in love, actually.
Like you though, I am upset, bordering on seething, over this whole new story arch for Killian. Personally, I think the writers should have been brave and had someone else kill Robert – shock twist, Robin Hood did it, etc, King George really did it, Baelfire did it…. – because how many more spanners do they think they can throw at CS?
But as it is done, then they could have at least had the decency to let Killian tell Emma the story first. It’s been some time since those two had secrets between them, and why start that again?
And the even worse thing about this is…. there is no sodding conflict in there to resolve. We know they tie the knot.
To call this lazy storytelling is an insult to lazy storytellers.
Don’t get me wrong, the only consolation I have from that scene is Emma. How she is happy in that scene. And yes, her finding out is not really what bothers me about this scene either. Although I wish we would have gotten the privilege to see her discovering the ring because we will never see Emma’s real surprises reaction to the upcoming proposal.
But the unforgiving part is that we will never get to see a completely happy Killian in a moment that should have been like that not only for Emma but for him too.It’s sad that the writers don’t see how he deserved it. To propose when there are indeed no secrets between them. How this moment is supposed to be pure and not with a shadow of a secret upon it.
I remember back when Rumbelle got married with a secret between them that I was saying, well, I could never be happy with such a wedding if it was my OTP. Well, CS are not Rumbelle in many ways, but yesterday the writers did something similar to us. And CS deserved better.
So you see, I couldn’t care less that it ended up being an improvised proposal, but Killian’s face at the end ruined everything. He is supposed to be the happiest man alive in that moment, in the same way she was.
Right now all that is left is to hope that they don’t ruin the wedding for us. But at this point I can see them doing also that.
Ugh all of this so much. I don’t want to keep thinking about what else they can fuck up, but man I am SO worried they will do the same with the wedding, not only do I have below zero expectations now, I don’t trust them AT ALL and will never trust them again. And quite frankly I’m not going to ever forgive them for this one.
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