r/OnceUponATime

After Katherine comes back from being abducted, David comes to see her in hospital and apologises for lying to her and cheating on her. She says it's okay and that

"What we had, it wasn't it for you. Maybe for both of us. I can't blame you for just being the first one to see it."

This is the first scene of David admitting to his wife that he cheated on her and that is her reaction? Him being the first one to see that they weren't right for each other doesn't give him a pass to betray his partner and cheat on her multiple times. His actions were cowardly and disrespectful but it's being framed like the poor thing had to act on his feelings.

He then replies "You are kind of amazing." For what? Justifying his behaviour? Not holding him accountable? The message feels quite male centred and not bothering to focus on the effects of David's actions on his wife. To me It felt like: Yes! Wives who are lenient and forgiving to their husband's disrespectful actions are amazing and should be praised!

Also that got me thinking to when Katherine did find out about Mary Margaret and her husband. Katherine only confronted Mary Margaret and hit her. The show didn't include her being mad at her own husband. Even when David broke up with her she wasn't mad at him, it just seemed like she was frustrated and upset. The town shunned Mary Margaret after the affair, nothing was shown about any of this treatment towards David- the cheating husband. The woman in the situation was the only one to receive backlash, when David was the one committed to someone else.

Whether it was intentional or not, I thought I'd share my thoughts on the double standards in the show.

OK, so I’m a couple seasons in too re-watching once upon a time. I’m just starting to think about it and I know the whole point of the curse was to give Regina a win. Also, she wanted to trap most of the people in the enchanted forest.
But all things considered….. did anyone really have a bad life during the curse?

I mean, yes merry Margaret would’ve wanted to be with her love David. But it seems like she had a pretty fulfilling life. She was a teacher, she didn’t have any financial stress. It seems like she had a slightly sad life, but I don’t know if I killed my father to create a curse and was stuck in it for 28 years. I would’ve created something a little bit more sinister.

I actually enjoyed season 7 a lot! It was refreshing with new characters and story lines, and back to its darkness origins from the earlier seasons. I was sad they had to rush the storylines because it didn’t get renewed. I’m glad the actors that stayed for season 7 were actually the ones who were carrying the show.

I'm rewatching ouat after years and I'm at the part where Snow kicks the mad hatter out the window and then he's gone. Did his hat suddenly start working again and why? Can you not die in the curse world since time is stopped, unless the queen crushes your heart? Does it ever explain because I forget.

Because what or who was it before malcolm came to the island?

I usually stop at either episode 11 of Season 3 or episode 9 of Season 2

What does the heart signify in Once Upon a Time? It seems like sometimes it makes them just fully evil not human but then when Regina’s heart is gone she’s acting normal and initiating romantic relationships?

One of the story lines was about how Emma had the possibility to become evil because she was made from true love. Snow and Prince Charming used Maleficent's daughter, Lilly, to absorb all the evil making Emma good. Why did they not have the same concerns or issues with Neal Nolan, their second child? Wouldn't he have had the same potential to become evil and wouldn't that have been a concern of theirs? Or were they completely okay with taking a chance for him to become evil?

I watched this show when i was 10 when it originally aired and have watched it too many times to count since. I convinced my husband to watch it for the first time after we watched Lost.

He doesn’t care about spoilers and it’s more entertaining for him because this show is so wild.

We just watched S1E6 and I just said the sentence:
“Now, while David was a shepherd, he was visited by Anna from frozen and she helped him learn to fight by defeating the warlord little bow peep.”

I love this show so much

I know, I KNOW we are never going to reach a consensus on how time moves differently in different realms that makes sense with the timelines and ages the show itself presents, but I just cannot let it go, and I‘m especially curious about the effects on those people who stay behind… (s7 spoilers ahead)

In s7, >!Henry travels through the new EF, he ages faster than people back in Storybrooke. He has a daughter who is ten before the curse sends them back in time.!<

>!How does that feel for the rest of the family? Emma is pregnant and has a newborn in the time her son meets his future wife, gets married and has a child - who is older by many years than Henry’s half-sibling/Lucy‘s aunt. Wouldn’t you feel like you‘re missing out on too much? I know they couldn‘t have Emma appear any more often than she did, but even a mention of her here and there might have been nice.!<