Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20151221091417/@comment-25926288-20151221160440

CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: I enjoyed 3B. I thought the take on the Oz mythos was good, the missing year flashbacks were interesting, because it was something different, and the new characters introduced (Zelena, Walsh, Glinda, Dorothy, Rapunzel, Lumiere, Black Beard, etc.) were good. Here comes my response in 3....2....1! I'd agree, but the Oz mythos was lacking and the missing year was missing the whole year. What do I mean? I mean we saw the starting month and the last month at most and that was it! Like at least some midway adventure or whatever they did for 8-9 months. Well, we saw enough of it for me, especially because I always figured Zelena would be back, so we'd get more Oz stuff later (which we are). And we saw what we needed to of the missing year for the plot of 3B. If something else important happened, we will see that flashback when we need to in a future episode. Just enough is part of the problem. It's perfectly fine and a good business move, but that's also the reason why we see the secondary characters so little and it's why the town feels so empty. They do just enough and nothing more in certain aspects. At least a missing year montage would be acceptable. It seems odd to have the characters sitting around for 8-9 months doing nothing. That sort of makes Zeelna look stupid because she could have did it back then.

And as Fareb said, they could have used an extension. Or at least they could have made Frozen, missing year potential.