Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26715865-20151102073210/@comment-25926288-20151102161518

If the main characters are done growing, guess what you do? You end the show.

You misunderstand me, CoolDude. The flashbacks should supplement the main character development. Arthur and Gwen troubles could have supplemnented Snow and David's arguing and disagreement., for example.

I think you also mistake fanservice (for Disney) and actual story. The show is meant to tell a story and guess what the major component of storytelling is? Character development. They have to develop every season or it becomes a drag. Noone must watch any other shows because I guess they can't keep the same characters for seasons. Example, Supernatural is doing something similar to Once with the whole darkness thing and they have had Sam and Dean for 10 seasons developing. Grey's anatomy has characters developing for several seasons too. Character development should take priority. If there are good characters then all is at least decent.

And no, just because this has many tales and sources to use does it have the necessity to not do character development.

So, th e half season arcs, can help is there was significant overflow, but certain things like characters that could be futher developed are dropped off.