Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25624943-20141211075940/@comment-24674051-20141217185955

CoolDudeAl wrote: Rwo wrote: Oooh interesting... But we would explore Ursula's early life first, and then how Ariel and her met. Eventually, we'll see if they meet again in Storybrooke :D I have a feeling the origin stories will be saved for later in the arc, just based on when we saw Pan's, Zelena's, Ingrid's, and even Jafar's on Wonderland. They were all show at the midway point of their half seasons or later. While that is true, remember we only had 1 villian in those arcs. we have 3 villians this time. So backstories will account for 1 episode for each villian, plus at least 1 episode of how they ended up joining forces. That's 4 episodes right there. Combine that with episodes that show past interactions (of which we already have 1 with Regina and Maleficent), and it is not going to take very long to have a whole set of back stories to film. And there are still probably some back story filling with the regulars that can be done (maybe not Snowing, but Hook for sure, and I would not be surprised to see more of Belle's backstory, and if they do pull in Pongo, well. Plus the Author and Sorcerer. I think I'm up to about 9 or 10 backstories right there, and we only have 11 left for this season.

Now, what would be cool is if they can keep this set of villians around (and they just might be able too), and then give us some of their background now, and save some for the next season(s). It would do the show well to have some complex villians, more than what they have been able to do with the previous ones.