Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180311191124/@comment-25926288-20180402095920

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to consider all of those main.

I still see the issue as depending on those pillars from the old show, the old villains, and focusing more on the new villains.

Let’s break down those pillars and see what they are really doing.

Regina spends a lot of character capital on Henry, Lucy, Ivy, and Samdi....some on Ella.

Rumple spends a lot of cc on Nook, Tilly and his typical spiel with the new villains.

Nook spends it on Tilly, Henry, Rumple, and Gothel.

Zelena spends hers on Robin and Regina.

So, we can pretty much see why Tiana’s plot is “ just around” and Ella doesn’t has much going for her. Add the new villain capital:

Samdi focuses on Tiana/Naveen sorta and Regina

Tremaine focused hers on Ella, Lucy, Rumple and Ivy and Gothel.

Ivy spends hers Henry, Regina, Tremaine, and Gothel

Gothel spends hers on Ivy, Tremaine, Nook, and a little on Regina and Zelena.

Mostly villains feeding villains and leaving the heroes the scraps, but those good hero characters are those that got more than their fill of development given their screentime/role.