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Ana honestly if there had been anything else on I'd have ditched it after week one, but there wasn't and now I'm 6 eps in and HOOKED. Sometimes it takes a build up of episodes for me to get into programs. And it has been so long since a program prompted me to spontaneously ship straight women together (although Amy, I am totally into Francy/Sid thanks to our Alias watchalong) and I love all the individual women. But yes I have issues with bits of it too. Let's compare and see if they are similar. My problems include:

Henry's total rejection of his adopted mother is really awful and the show basically endorses it because the audience knows Regina is the evil queen. I keep having this conversation where I'm all 'How sad, her adopted son hates her' and other people are like 'But she's the evil queen'. NO! That's why I'm desperate for Regina/the queen to get humanised a bit more - what is the love that has been taken from her show? Please tell me!

Mary and whatever Charming's real life name is romance in Storybrooke makes me very sad for Charming's Storybrooke wife. Like, he has lost all memory of their love and leaves her for his nurse - this is sad :( But again the show uses the fairytale storyline to cut his wife off from viewer sympathy, because in fairytale land she is this mean, snotty princess. Awful.

I have a horrible feeling that Regina and Emma are going to be set up as romantic opponents over the Sherrif. I mean, he's the cutest single guy in Storybrooke right now, but not sure he's great enough to make two such storming ladies fight over him.

I'm so keen on Snow/Charming though, because that relationship just keeps flipping gender norms. Also, after initially being all 'What are you doing in this show?! You are a serious actor!' I could watch Robert Carlyle be Gold/Rumplestiltskin forever. And if you like the video (amazing, my ship + one of my favourite bands, what are the odds?) there's a really cute one set to Jar of Hearts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5mzWjBHf_A

Re 'Girls': I feel exactly the same as you two. We don't have 'Girls' over here on channels I have access to yet, but I actually think I'm going to take an unusual position (for me and tv anyway) and deliberately avoid it, because the creators response has been so awful. I think I remember someone involved in that show saying they'd like to expand the cast and make it more diverse in S2, but I want to see them make that change (and see what kind of stories the additional characters get given) before putting it anywhere near my face because the intial, public reaction to criticism was so awful.