Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150305004501/@comment-26104918-20150305071256

Here is what I think a good Season 5 would look like (this is based off ideas of my own and ideas from other people that kinda merged into one large...thing).

At the end of this season, we find out that the Sorcerer or the Author is Merlin (It could end up being that the Sorcerer is holding the Author captive or maybe vice versa, but we know they're different people). This revelation launches a Camelot themed arc. I've sensed something like this coming with the recent mention of the gauntlet from Camelot. In flashbacks, we find out that Morgan le fay had taken over Camelot. Sometime around October, there would be a Halloween-ish episode where we learn that the Headless Horseman, after being decapitated in Wonderland or the Land Without Color by Cora, made his way to Camelot in Fairy Tale Land and became the main henchman to Morgan. After this episode, both Morgan and the Headless Horseman are seen in Storybrooke, after staying in the shadows for a while. This would be easy for them becasue they are from Camelot - so far the only person in the show that I know has been to Camelot is Rumple, and he keeps alot of secrets, so he might not say anything up to this point about them. Maybe they were planning on confroting Regina or Rumple about something before the dark curse hit and got taken with in the first or second time. Now that they know that Merlin is back, Morgan wants to enact some sort of revenge on him for something he did back in Camelot that disrupted her reign. Near the end of this I think it would be cool for the Headless Horseman to be redeemed in some way. Smaller appearances by Arthur, Guinevere, and other knights in flashbacks would be nice, but I don't see them having a huge presence. There are already a lot of kings and queen and other royalty in the show.

Since Mulan is going to be a part of Season 5 for sure, I want to include her as well. This is just one theory, going off the assumption that Mulan is in Storybrooke even though we haven't seen her in a while - She becomes indecisive and restless about being in the Merry Men and wants to leave. She is seen at Grannys or the Rabbit Hole trying to make a decision, where she is approached by Morgan. Morgan acts like she wants to help her, but she really just wants to enlist Mulan to fight with her against Merlin. While still under the impression that Morgan can be trusted, she runs into Aurora, who she has been avoiding since coming to Storybrooke. Aurora tries to reconnect with her. When an eventual fight ensues between Morgan and Mulan, Aurora is injured and Mulan becomes a fierce enemy of Morgan. If there could also be a fight scene between the Headless Horseman and her, that would be amazing. All of this would be spread out over a few episodes I think.

If I had to bring in other characters to participate in all of this besides the main cast, it would probably be ones like Frankenstein/Dr. Whale (a connection to the Headles Horseman - maybe he found a way to keep him alive after being decapitated) a flashback or two from Lancelot since he's dead, King George/Albert Spencer (some connection Arthur or Morgan) the Blue Fairy, August, Red, and Sidney.