So I should give it another chance? I watched the first couple of episodes and then let it slide, though I don't rightly remember why. I think I was already irked by the 'there can be only one (in every eligible family)' idea; and by the fact that heritability goes with seniority in that family (so what if they have a really large and long-lived family? You get an succession of alzheimers-ridden seniors freaking out in nursing homes?) and not in a direct line of descent from parent to child; and then I was irked that the fairy tale creatures - of whom there doesn't seem to be a shortage - didn't just gang together and wipe them out (by which I mean, massacre them, overwhelm them with sheer numbers, rip them apart, and not, for example, enter into long-winded and Machiavellian conspiracies involving becoming their boss). And then I realised that I was trying to work out the logic of the story and was irked at myself. But! I will give the show another shot, because I can occasionally turn off my internal monologue, and I am not always grumpy at everything all of the time, and I trust your instincts :).

I did quite like 'Once Upon A Time', and that's utter tosh, too. Although, I'm many, many episodes behind on that one...