I feel compelled to write SOMETHING in response to yesterday's events. It has been eating away at me ever since I saw the first hateful bitchy tweet yesterday. An attack was made on a show and it's creative team that is VERY dear to me and for that I cannot be silent.
Let me tell you a little story to start out. 2 years ago I was sad to learn that an actress from How I met your Mother was leaving to pursue a leading role on another show. I had to know what this show was. It was called Once Upon A Time. I was delighted to learn that another actress that I adore would be starring as well. Miss Ginnifer Goodwin, not to mention that it's a fantasy fairytale show. That's enough for me I was onboard. So I WAITED for it to air, then to my amazing delight I saw that my FAVE pirate Lee Arenberg had a role. This was fabulous in my eyes. Throughout the pilot I was introduce to my Beloved team 7, as well as other characters. When it ended I was left craving for more. Each week a new story was brought to me, I devoured it like I was starving. Once was feeding a need that has been neglected for so long, I did not realize it was still there.
I was 36 years old married, with a baby. FULLY grown up no time for fun, fantasy or creativity. I'm also married to an officer in the Navy which means always on display. Have to behave and act accordingly. No time for fantasy. Have to be a grown up.(Especially when they can be so boring) Growing up I was BIG into theater but as I grew up it was not cool or accepted in my circles to be artsy, fantasy and the likes. No time for that when you have bills to pay, etc. Soon I saw that Once had spread to twitter where I met the most wonderful people. I could tweet for hours with people who accepted me for ME! I was allowed to indulge in arts, fantasy, etc and it was encouraged. I have become very close with some of my oncer sisters that I love dearly. We shared all of our interests, even those outside of once. Also I would be wrong if I did not mention the Oncer guys I met as well. Neil we miss you! ( I hope you know who you lovely ladies are, April, Abbe, Kim, Karen, just to name a few LOVE YOU GUYS!) I got connected with the awesome guys who portray #TEAM7 and it just spread like wildfire. I regained my courage to be me in real life as well as online. With the support from my once family I can be me in everyday life now and not care what others think. (THANK YOU FOR THAT!) I got to attend a con a few months ago and meet Lee and He was awesome of course. I also had the pleasure of meeting one of my Once Sisters and her sister who rock!
So let's fast forward to yesterday. To be honest I do not know all of the details because there are too many. I started seeing the angry, hateful tweets all over twitter after the panel at comic con yesterday. I saw Adam standing up for himself and his show. Yet people were still being hateful and insulting to his creation. This is HIS creation HIS baby. Without it we would not even have once. A lot of hate and ruckus over a a ship called SWANQUEEN that was NEVER going to set sail. I understand that we as human beings are greedy and we want what we want. But this was insane. People were tweeting Adam in attack form, as well as "Good Luck with ratings" "We're done", etc. Someone even accused him of not standing up for the LGBT community( which is untrue he did). Again WOW all of this ugliness because certain people of a particular ship (I know it wasn't everyone) were disappointed. Not to mention all of the hate that Jennifer has received. Can we be grown ups here. Now I know that some are teens and still have a lot to learn. But common decency and manners is for all ages. If you want to abandon ONCE, sad to see you go but do so while keeping your hate and ugliness to yourself. I myself sent out some tweets hoping that people would read them and remember to be kind, calm down and think before tweeting. In turn only ONE of my tweets spread and I got ugliness my way. I'm okay with that. They did not bother to read all of my tweets no biggie. I did not respond to them personally as to not engage anyone.
To whom this may concern: When you attack Adam, or anyone else associated with #ONCE you are attacking my family and that is not okay. It is not up to you what the content of the show will be. Furthermore Adam and everyone else on the #ONCE team give up a LOT so that we can enjoy once. They pull all nighters writing scripts, production, etc again ALL for us fans. They miss meals, holidays, and general time with their families all so we can have Once Upon A Time. For that I personally am grateful to everyone that works to create Once Upon A time for us. This includes every from from Adam, the writers, production crews, Hair/makeup/costumes, security, Of course our beloved Actors and Actresses, and anyone else who works with ONCE. They give so much of themselves so we can be entertained. I think that deserves some gratitude, not hateful bitter tweets, etc. Once is about LOVE, accepting of everyone no matter your walk of life. I'm just so sad over this and very disappointed. Shock is an understatement. I guess I grew to expect more than that from our wonderful group of people. I have seen some ugly tweets from members in the past and did not speak up. Shame on me for that. Oncers we are better than this. Love Not hate. Instead of being negative how about we be positive. Appreciate the gift that has been given to us. Trust them on their journey that they are sharing with us. You never know there could be something coming that we will love and embrace, could be better than the ship you are shipping. But most of all Oncers Lets's be kind to one another instead of the other.
