Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24757127-20141111202133/@comment-24757127-20141204051846

CoolDudeAl wrote: I think what happened is that 4B was originally going to be 4A, and since Will is going to be important in what is now 4B, he signed a contract as a whole season regular. Then, Adam and Eddy got clearance to do Frozen, so the original 4A plan got pushed to 4B. However, Micheal Socha had already signed a contract, and ABC would probably have to pay him a large sum of money to break it, so instead Adam and Eddy just added him into the Frozen arc in small ways (which I actually like better as I feel it is a more natural introduction to the charcter for those that haven't watched Wonderland). And I wouldn't worry about his happy ending with Ana, as I'm sure they aren't going to retcon that, and I'm actually excited because I'm hoping we will get confirmation this season that Ana is Cinderella's stepsister. It annoyed me that they so heavily implyed it on Wonderland, but wouldn't outright confirm it.

I don't know. I think it's a bit annoying having him in 4A when he essentially does nothing. I agree thought that introducing him early is nice but we don't know anything about him! We don't know where events in Wonderland coiencide with present Storybrooke so we can't say "Oh his history is OUATW." I only watched a couple episodes of Wonderland because I thought it wasn't that good so I don't know the conclusion. (Well I read the episode summaries but that's it.) You can't assume all the viewers know about his Wonderland shinanigans.