Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20141206020347/@comment-3010035-20150713085747

Since the prime storyline is usually very important, here are my least favourite backstories:

Season 1: What Happened to Frederick, and Heart of Darkness

Season 2: In the Name of the Brother, Tiny and The Evil Queen

Season 3: The Heart of the Truest Believer, Lost Girl, The New Neverland, Going Home, The Tower

Season 4: A Tale of Two Sisters, Family Buissness, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Unforgiven, Enter the Dragon.

The Season one episodes I didn't like because they were simply filler episodes, the season two ones were too focussed on irrelevant characters, or in the case of The Evil Queen, filler. The Heart of the Truest Believer and Going Home didn't have proper backstories which annoyed me. And I did not give one shit about Snow and Charming in the forest. Those stories just pissed me off because they were so irrelevant. I mean we had a whole arc in Neverland and not one backstory was exclusively set in Neverland. In my opinion, The Tower just completely butchered Rapunzel and told her story terribly. The whole Frozen backstory arc in my opinion was annoying, but specifically A Tale of Two Sisters and Family Buissness were mediocre as they either had very little action, or the stories didn't actually make sense. Now I liked the premise for Darkness, Unforgiven and Enter the Dragon however they weren't executed well. I feel like the whole of Unforgiven could have been woven into the backstory in Best Laid Plans, and Darkness on the Edge of Town logistically, really didn't make sense with the weird "Defeat" of the Chernabog in the past. Enter the Dragon was a story we've been waiting for since season one and Sleeping Beauty wasn't even in it, and Aurora and Stefan were there for one second each.