One of the only broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox are broadcast) shows I started to watch this year was Once Upon a Time. I didn't watch it from the start, but only ran through it during the massive winter breaks for the only shows still on this year I watch like Fringe, which frankly got hosed this year with massive breaks because of scheduled and MLB playoffs. So during these huge lulls I had to get some sort of TV fix and picked this show somehow.
I marathoned the first 6-7 episodes I believe so I didn't have any downtime realy for the first parts. This typically makes me like a shw better than I think I do since I am not having to wait week to week to get small bits of story. Once I am caught up to live with the show though I almost always figure out if I really like the show, or it is just not a show I want to watch every week.
Once Upon a Time I have been watching every week (recorded of course), but it is starting to slow down a bit in how much I liked it before. I recognized it wasn't a fantastic show already, but it was good enough that I added it to my shows I watch for now.
Basic premise of the show is that a bunch of fairy tale characters are cursed by an evil queen to forget who they are and transported to a modern day town called Storybrook. None of them remember and this is the most boring aspect of the show. They do flashbacks to the fairy tale lands , but most of the story is in this small town where they all live. Them remembering is probably the thing I least care about on the show, and I almost want to wait until they figure it out to keep watching I care so little about this aspect. I'd rather watch people parade around in a cheap plus size cocktail dress than wait for this.
The show has all the fairy tale relationships like Snow White and Prince Charming not remembering who they are. They have a bunch of "drama" with them not klnowing and not being together so them not remembering feels like it is just spinning its wheels until something actually happens. I am much more interested in seeing what they do once everyone knows because I have no idea what the show is supposed to do at this point, and they have said that season 1 will have them remember. I suppose we'll have a big magical battle with the queen, who is the mayor of this town and then what? Not sure. Just not sure this show has a lot of legs to keep going so it is hard to stay real interested in it.
