I usually don't watch the promos either, but I was simply too curious for this one.
Of course, Kenneth Branagh ;) it's actually quite a good adaption, one of the best I've seen. One of my friends did a project about the book once, and we had a marathon, I remember.
I think a part of me just wanted him to be The Doctor or maybe the Master, and I knew that that obviously wasn't going to happen, so my brain just leapt to other (weird) conclusions :D your sister is clearly smarter than us xD and I think I rejected the Frankenstein-idea because he wasn't a fairytale-character, but to be fair, the show states 'storybook' characters, which is why we can have Mulan (historic legend) and Dr. Frankenstein on the show, and its still within their corner.
There are just so many different factors in a persons life; for example, what if Red hadn't had her grandmother and Snow around? She killed and ate half the town, including her boyfriend, and if she hadn't had the support of family and really good friends, I could easily imagine her turning into a villain. Of course, there is a degree of taking responsibility for your choices, but we see both Rumple and Regina doing this now (to an extent anyway, there's a long way to go!). But its so easy for us to take the morale highground, because we have (almost) all the facts and circumstances - when you're actually in it, it is not that easy at all. Like August - can you talk about flawed? So much of Emma's suffering can be lead back to him, but that doesn't mean he's evil. He's human. And he tires to make up for it, little by little.
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Date: 2012-11-05 10:36 am (UTC)Of course, Kenneth Branagh ;) it's actually quite a good adaption, one of the best I've seen. One of my friends did a project about the book once, and we had a marathon, I remember.
I think a part of me just wanted him to be The Doctor or maybe the Master, and I knew that that obviously wasn't going to happen, so my brain just leapt to other (weird) conclusions :D your sister is clearly smarter than us xD and I think I rejected the Frankenstein-idea because he wasn't a fairytale-character, but to be fair, the show states 'storybook' characters, which is why we can have Mulan (historic legend) and Dr. Frankenstein on the show, and its still within their corner.
There are just so many different factors in a persons life; for example, what if Red hadn't had her grandmother and Snow around? She killed and ate half the town, including her boyfriend, and if she hadn't had the support of family and really good friends, I could easily imagine her turning into a villain. Of course, there is a degree of taking responsibility for your choices, but we see both Rumple and Regina doing this now (to an extent anyway, there's a long way to go!). But its so easy for us to take the morale highground, because we have (almost) all the facts and circumstances - when you're actually in it, it is not that easy at all. Like August - can you talk about flawed? So much of Emma's suffering can be lead back to him, but that doesn't mean he's evil. He's human. And he tires to make up for it, little by little.