Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207191523

Now that 5a has come and gone, I made this thread to complie thoughts and comments about this...idea.

I believe that Once is still in its experimental phase. Season 1 was the pliopt stage, but then a change in direction (well, twice) led to Once experimenting with things and they tried to improve where in other things they failed.

Season 2 showed that 2 seaosn arcs are probably best and the villain is defeated early to lead into a the next arc. It also told them that don't have too many cuts between flashbacks to across realms and back to Storybrooke and so on.

Season 3a said that stage sets are probably going to be boring eventually. SB is where it is at. Have a nice balance.

Season 3b was where they learned that they could milk shippers and bathe themselves in their tears. Um.......I mean that the two parter finales come (Ooops that was season 2). Regina focused on the B arcs.

Season 4a told them they could sell out and milk the cash cow Disney is and bring in the ratings. Why do work when you can just copy and paste? Right? Core characters are wanted.

Seaosn 4b told them...aboslutely nothing. They tried a combination of the previous stuff and it failed.

Season 5a was nother combination that started off good, but they never really leaned how to follow through and it failed.

Those are my opinions, but what are yours? Do you think Once is in the experimental phase still? Or do you think they simply succumbed to lazy and shoddy writng? Or is it all perfectly fine to you?

Continuous improvemnt is key to success, but it doesn't mean the road there won't be rough. 