Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-1894786-20150826203914

DigificWriter wrote: Farerb wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: DigificWriter wrote: As I just pointed out above, the rights to use Peter Pan and related characters were secured MONTHS before the final episodes of Season 2 and the beginning episodes of Season 3 were written, so it is clear that Greg and Tamara were used exactly as they were intended to be. Exactly.... it was pretty obvious from the start that Greg and Tamara, along with the whole "Home Office", was just a red herring. It was to help cover up that Peter Pan was going to be a villian, on OUaT. It wasn't a red herring. A red herring does not last almost half a season, it doesn't have its own backstory and it's not the "climax" of the season finale. It wasn't a 'red herring' per se, but it also wasn't a 'course correction'. The way in which that storyline played itself out was clearly intentional, right down to the deaths of Greg and Tamara in the Season 3 premiere. It clearly wasn't when Greg and Tamara outright claimed that magic itself had crossed over into our world before in amounts as extreme as Storybrooke, when that was later retconned to not be the case with Ingrid and Ursula/Cruella.

They made the home office seem like a massive underground government institution. (Like for example, having the Black Diamond Trigger be investigated in less than a few days in-universe.)

They were scrapped. Simple as that.