Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20171018191424/@comment-31937823-20171217222439

DatNuttyKid wrote: ShadowLian wrote: Sadly true. And thinking of how they did it so poorly in 4B where they only had 3 "witches" to develop, how is that gonna work with 5 witches? The characterization of the Queens of Darkness wasn't really the problem. Cruella was fantastic and it was easy to understand Maleficent's plight. Ursula was the least developed but even she wasn't terribly unlikeable. The biggest issue was that we didn't see what she did to become known as the Sea Witch whereas we saw Cruella and Mal's acts of villainy.

They were also only given five backstory episodes for the three of them, excluding Mal's Season 1 appearances, and played second fiddle to the actual villains of the arc: Rumple and Isaac. The Coven seems to be the main villains and Gothel has already gotten a lot of development (she's far from finished, but most of what we need to know about her could be covered in a single episode and.or by showing her interacting with other witches who are the focus of the backstory). We have 12 episodes for them to show backstory for five witches and basically nothing else, assuming they'll mostly share backstories with the heroes. Now, if they try to give separate backstories for the witches and the heroes, that'll be a problem.

I think why this will work better (hopefully) is that this will be a more focused storyline than 4B, which had random dangling plot lines around every corner that were never addressed. As well, since the characters haven’t met the witches yet there is no need for episodes like Unforgiven, Best Laid Plans, or Enter the Dragon.