The thing about Rumbelle
Jan. 13th, 2013 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotThe thing about Rumbelle is, I love it and I don't love it. I love just about all the tropes in existence people who sincerely believe in someone else's essential goodness, and I love people who want to be better for someone they love. I love moral struggles, people who have a really hard time not giving in to their bad impulses. But at the same time ... I love them to try. R doesn't really try at all. He loves Belle so much and I love the scenes where it shows, BUT it's completely negated by how it feels like he thinks he's doing her a favor when he eg. doesn't kill someone because she says it's wrong, and by the continual lying. I want to believe that he wants to be a better person, but it's really hard to take it seriously when he doesn't seem to regret anything.
Actually, you know, I would love for the show to address this whole "true love" thing. For serious, if your true love dies does that really mean you get no more chances at relationships ever? Is anyone else just annoyed by the phrase by this point? To me it's kind of come to mean either "everyone has a soulmate" (which I hate) or "some special people have a soulmate" (worse) or "people have to love each other a quantifiable amount to be considered true loves" (bizarre). Or maybe I'm overthinking, probably that.
I guess my biggest problem with the show is that I find Rumplestiltskin and Rumbelle the most entertaining part of the show but not particularly well-done, and they're going to have to put a lot of effort and time into making Belle's "I believe in you" seem less delusional ... while Regina's plotline is infinitely better handled (even if parts of the fanbase think it's more black-and-white than it is), but I'm kind of bored with it because of the slooooow progress. I don't understand why they can't apply some of what they put into writing Regina's plotlines into Rumbplestiltskin's.
Actually, you know, I would love for the show to address this whole "true love" thing. For serious, if your true love dies does that really mean you get no more chances at relationships ever? Is anyone else just annoyed by the phrase by this point? To me it's kind of come to mean either "everyone has a soulmate" (which I hate) or "some special people have a soulmate" (worse) or "people have to love each other a quantifiable amount to be considered true loves" (bizarre). Or maybe I'm overthinking, probably that.
I guess my biggest problem with the show is that I find Rumplestiltskin and Rumbelle the most entertaining part of the show but not particularly well-done, and they're going to have to put a lot of effort and time into making Belle's "I believe in you" seem less delusional ... while Regina's plotline is infinitely better handled (even if parts of the fanbase think it's more black-and-white than it is), but I'm kind of bored with it because of the slooooow progress. I don't understand why they can't apply some of what they put into writing Regina's plotlines into Rumbplestiltskin's.
