Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-1916997-20160923161358

JennaMae wrote: I've said it before but I honestly don't see why people keep asking about Mal & Lily. I mean, I don't care for Lily whatsoever but I do think that it's a shame  Mal didn't get a proper backstory during her 4B episode and so I would totally take her back if they wanted to bring back Stefan and introduce the Briar Rose that Mal hated so much. And I'm not even sure if there are actually lot of fans are asking or that select reporters just keep asking A&E directly about it, but in the grand scheme of things, I struggle to see why "Lily finding her father" is the one that keeps coming up. They've picked up and left quite a few loose ends over the years - surely there are other more interesting ones that people can annoy the writers about. Their answer for this comes off as "We might cover it someday just to quiet the ones who keep asking but there are other things we'd rather focus on," so yeah, I wouldn't exactly get my hopes up.......though we are in the LoUS so they can really pick any dragon from literature to be her father if they need some material for another episode this season. And I would probably be more interested in this dragon's backstory than the Mal & Lily part of it lol. Hope they pick a good one! I think the reason Mal and Lily are brought up more than some of the other open plot threads, is that they were presented as important characters. Mal was present in Season 1 (the second and final episodes no less), Season 2 (as her lich form), Season 4 (in a whole arc), and Wonderland. Additionally, Aurora has been in quite a few episodes, over several seasons. And yet we still don't have the Sleeping Beauty story complete, as you mentioned we haven't seen Mal VS Briar Rose yet. So part of it is that. Lily, while only appearing is Season 4, was also presented as significant, first introduced in a flashback in 4A, we later learn she is a foil to Emma (and her goodness), and Mal's daughter. She can also shapeshift into a dragon, like Mal. And they left them with Mal and Lily just forming the mother daughter connection, and Lily wanting to know who her father is. Basically, Mal and Lily are set up as pretty important characters, and so that leaves an expectation that they should get some plot resolution.