Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-6175354-20170517191748/@comment-3560615-20170518122252

I am still unsure about what to feel of s7. S6, as good as the over-all plot could have been, seemed pretty much out of nothing for me. Where were the connections to open plots from former seasons?

At the end of s4 we saw a Lilly who was all about going to search for her father and asked Emma for help. That wasn't even mentioned in s5 and s6? What about Lancelot and Guinevere? We just saw Arthur again, who started a quest to save Underbrooke? I mentioned it some years before - what ever happened to those, who finally got their Happy endings by Emma in s1? Most of them were never ever back on screen? Sure, their stories are over, they reached the final page of every fairy tale, but in a show about Happy Endings in a town full of heroes and villains, I expect to see at least a bit more about what a Happy Ending looks like before they are thrown on the next adventure.

Speaking of villains, what about Regina's old council who helped to enact the Dark Curse? We still don't know who those "with the darkest souls" were? And why they were darker than those villains we met in later seasons. My theory was, that Regina's later Garden Gnome was the one from Snow White and Rose Red, but in the probable OUaT-Take on this story, we didn't even had a gnome, for it was used as Ruby's Background. The witch with the sown eyes I thought to be that of Rapunzel, but in Rapunzel's story her villain was herself...

I would have hoped, that a final season - and I believe that the writer's planned s6 as that - would take on those loose threads, instead they focused on a final battle, that was a nice idea, but even for that I would have hoped for a more established villain, even if that would have been Lilly for instance, for the connections made between her an Emma. A saviour with a big bad she never met seems... strange? Even Aladdin, the other saviour we know for sure, seems to be more connected with his bad boy...

And now there is s7 announced... A Time-Jump... lost characters... so many lost stories and opportunities... I feel there won't be any conclusions on former plotholes in that future, and that leaves me in sorrow. I will still give s7 a chance, for OUaT even at its lowest always had some light points that ensorceled me for a few moments. But right now it feels a bit more like visiting an old friend on his deathbed.