Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25433726-20150220040629/@comment-1894786-20150818170121

DigificWriter wrote: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland is far from 'unnecessary'; it's not 'required viewing' in order to understand what's going on with Once Upon a Time itself and would never have been such since the two series were designed to work independently of one another, but it does very much inform upon and fit within the larger mythological tapestry of the franchise. It is unnecessary. I love the show, but when the only characters the two shows have in common are a handful (Will, Cora, Robin, Jefferson and Maleficent), it's not necessary to watch Wonderland to understand anything on Once.

Unless they actually pay attention to fans and make Scarlet Queen's (Will + Ana) separation Zelena's doing because of what they both did to her (Ana was pretty much adopted by Cora, Will was in possesion of her stolen Elixir of the Wounded Heart), then there's going to be no reason to pay attention to the spin-off going forward, because we'll most likely get an underwhelming departure from Will along the lines of "everyone goes back to Camelot and Will asks Regina to send him back to Wonderland, which she does with her looking glass or something, after a brief mention that he served her or something pre-Curse".