Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160212162720

Hmmm, "Why does everyone think everything after 3b wasn't the original plan?" "Frozen and Brave weren't part of the original plan." Answered my point.

Post 3b, all character "growth" is sort of cyclical. Emma accepted her family and magic and learned to not be selfsih by the end of 3b and now Emma has learned to accept her magic (4a), her family (4b), and her selfishness (5a). Regina learned "I make my own destiny: in 3b, then spent season 4 learning the same thing. And that's just the start.

So, can you see how some people see it as cyclical? I believe firmly that they planned the beginning and the ending, but sort of guessed along the middle.

The show shouldn't have ended because that's just how business works and sometimes people forget that people are trying to work as well. The problem isn't so much the continued story, but that the characters don't really grow because the writers seemed to have blown all their steam early on whenthey have so much content left.

We want to see Greek Myths, see all this other stuff, but we need the characters to do something. Emma has had what she wanted for a while now and then they had to artifically lose it. Regina has what she wants, in essence. Snow and David are content. Henry seems fine. Rumple and Belle go through their seasonal struggle. So, what else is there? The story ends eventually, so what is it? Are they going to try to "ruin" Regina's happiness again next season? Are they going to have Rumbelle break up for the fiftieth time? Are Hook and Emma going to still be so slowburn that Henry will be married before them?