Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150926225531/@comment-1916997-20150927180105

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: 8Rob wrote: While season 1 is generally at the top, and S4A is generally at the bottom, it's interesting to see such polarized opinions about S3B and S4B. 4A is actually higher on many people's lists than a thought it would be, some people even have it in the 1st three spots. That's what's suprising me the most. I'm guessing it has to do with how much you like Frozen (and don't get me wrong I thought Frozen was a good movie), but the problem was it was just overkill on Once in 4A. If you can accept the fact that you have new main characters and the main characters become supporting, then you have a great story. I get why people were bothered by that. Personally, I've had enough of Snow-Charming-Regina backstories and how they kept contradicting themselves, that I felt it was refreshing to see different character's backstories. The characters were great, Ingrid was a good villain. The season didn't feel over stuffed with random characters and sudden plots like 4B, it had just 2 plots - the main plot - Ingrid and Frozen, the secondary plot - Rumple and the hat, so it feels more focused. Well, that's part of the problem, this isn't an anthology series, so we shouldn't be having new main characters. And while I don't need all my flashbacks to be Snowing and Evil Queen filled, I felt they pushed all the characters aside (main and secondary), for the Frozen characters, who will probably never be seen again (maybe we'll see them in the series finale along with like a million other characters, but that's probably it), which leads to the whole 4A arc feeling very filler-ish.