Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20141206020347/@comment-27589731-20170520073657

Season One: Dreamy. Because Cinderella was obviously crucial to the plot. Geppetto's parents were puppets, I can roll with that. Jefferson appeared a bit more. But Grumpy? Why did we need his backstory? Some of the Oz episodes featuring scarecrow or tinman explanations, I'm fine with, but this one. This episode only would've worked had it been elaborated on. I guess it sorta worked in the sense that it introduced you to the Blue Fairy not being very nice

Season Two: Child Of The Moon: I would like to skip this one. I know Ruby was now a main character and she needed some form of story arc but this felt like too much information. Gus is Billy. Her mother is evil. There's a werewolf tribe. If anything, this episode made me like Belle more.

Season Three: don't shoot me but Bleeding Through. The acting in the flashbacks was dull and the present day storyline of the Cora summoning, I get that it was crucial, but really I'd want those flashbacks to have been better.

Season Four: Mother. Don't know which was more pointless, the present events or the flashback events. I really couldn't stand Lily either, Neal and Ingrid being from EF was okay, but Lily, it was just all huge. I would've put Lily, had the ending not saved it for me

Season Five: The Broken Kingdom. I'm not a fan of Arthurian legend at all, but I was fine with the OUAT avengers going there. The fact they took Zelena and not Mr Gold seemed to be a nice change. I was looking forward to meeting Merida. I really enjoyed The Price. But it was this episode which started a 5A trend of 'arcs we plan to abandon'. The return of Lancelot and expansion of Arthur and Guinevere's characters. There was so much promotion, but the season ended up so focused on the series mains. No one seemed to even remember Camelot was ever a thing by the beginning of Swan Song

Season Six: so I haven't seen the finale yet, but I'd predict it wouldn't be my choice of worst episode. The Other Shoe. So I loved The Stable Boy. I loved Bitter Draught. I loved We Are Both. I loved Sisters. Now what I don't love is rewatching all of my favourite episodes again with other characters playing the same roles as other characters had. The one thing that would've made this episode worse is if someone had their memories wiped. This season dodges that trope so nicely (I can forgive Song Of The Heart, it was awesome)