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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: PrettyBlackRosePirate wrote:

I don't know why they decided to suddenly kill him off. ABC has been having a lot of budget cuts lately. With OUaT it was originally noticable in the wardrobe department. Having ten actors on contract, is quite expensive.

While Robin Hood's death was foreshadowed on 5.02, it was poorly written and executed. From a storytelling point of view, the writers hit a dead end in the overall story. The only problem was, that they made the dead end even worse. If Regina becomes the Evil Queen again, what was the point of the past five seasons? If she does not regress to her old ways, it will just be the two Mills sisters being miserable together. The story is stuck at a stand still, similar to how Gold has been since S3. I highly doubt it was because of cost.

Robin's death wasn't foreshadowed. Why do I say that? Because every love interest gets the death fakeout so it doesn't foreshadow death. Neal was presumed dead and it surely didn't foreshadow anything. Hook almost died a number of times, and it foreshadowed nothing. Rumple almost died and he's still kicking around.

I think it was primarily a writing issue and it did re-establish stakes and the high suspenseful finale as well as the villain.