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So what you are saying that there is no time for Robin and Regina having a conversation revolving Marian's murder which is the basic reason he was available to date in the first place?

OUAT has horrible pacing. They have a lot of irrevelent things that happen in "plot" which are essentially useless but A&E already said that they like action and find "talking" boring. Ironically, character moments, when OUAT actually does it, it what they excel at.

When you tell and not show is how BAD fiction works. Important conversations helps the audience to infer why a character does this or that is essential to story telling, at least good ones. No one is saying that every single moment that character A to character B has to be seen.