Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24715640-20180408114413/@comment-25926288-20180409082224

The Lord of Deathless wrote: I am displeased that the writers simply had her leave. At least some of this mess is her job to clean up. She should have stayed, regained her magic, protected her sister and found a way to save Henry thereby regaining Regina's trust and respect and helping defeat Gothel and end the Curse. That would have been actually bad for the character. You could argue that it would be better than whatever they are doing to certain other characters, but that would be ruining a good thing just because it can afford to be ruined.

Ivy sticks around and the Candy Killer story becomes weaker, she’d be offscreen forever and a day, viewers would see that despite any good that she could attempt that she really can’t do enough to equate the evil she has done, Ana would be a prime target, and they would have to delete more scenes and if one sees slightly closer that it sort of makes/has made some key story plot points a bit disjointed.