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I'd like to outline my major grievance against Once Upon a Time.

The whole point of the show (call it a theme, if you like) is that in the fairytale world, everyone lived happily ever after; then the curse sent them to the real world, where life began to suck.

Here's the thing: other than Snow White and Prince Charming, absolutely no one got a happy ending.  This undermines the whole point of the show.  And it makes it so much less interesting.  There's a scene in one Ruby/Little Red Hood centric-episode where Henry comments that she just doesn't remember how cool she is.  It's this idea that gives OUAT so much potential: that these people had lives, they had had trials and tribulations, they fought and they got their happy ending- and then their memories and lives were stolen from them.  The David/Mary Margaret merry-go-round in S1 was not my favorite part, but it was still interesting because they went through so much to be together and BAM!  Gone, just like that.  It's much sadder, much darker, to have things like that happen then to have bad things happen in fairy tale land and the real world, as with Rumpelstiltskin and Belle.  All that says is "You still don't get to be with your True Love.  But, you get short skirts and indoor plumbing."  They're practically better off, in most cases.

Also, for the first three episodes (maybe four, it's been a while) the flashbacks seemed to be going backwards: Snow White and Prince Charming get married and the Evil Queen enacts the curse.  Evil Queen gets a hold of the curse.  Etc.  Am I the only one who wanted it to keep going that way?  Instead, the flashbacks just started jumping around and getting a concrete timeline together became the headache of my life.