Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160315081356

From Lily's review :

"It’s my personal opinion that a series jumps the shark when the main characters go to visit an afterlife in a dream sequence or worse yet the reality of the show. I believe that was true for  True Blood, for  The Vampire Diaries, for  Supernatural, and so on. Because once you take away the mystery from your series’ conceptualization of death, you take away all stakes and/or the idea of death as a real threat to the characters. For example, when characters "die" on  Once Upon a Time, we now imagine them in reddish Storybrooke, wearing sweaters and eating burgers (maybe slightly dryer, but still). It's not exactly the same stakes as when death is what it is to real people: the great unknown."

So what do you think? is death a real threat? did they lessen the stakes of the characters? 