Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150314072422/@comment-25926288-20150315035522

Farerb wrote: Bae was important to the story, but he wasn't important as a character.

As for the repetitive stories for the characters - I agree. That happens because they have poor character development, so the writers go back to the same bullshit. I agree, but Bae's death was largely unnecessary or rather spontaneous. I disliked Neal with a passion, but his death could have waited a while. With Neal dead, tension dropped with CaptainSwan and now they have idiotic and repetitive plots. Rumple almost or pretty much dropped into one-dimensional evil villain. Henry is completely unfazed which I don't blame him, but what does that mean to Henry that his father and this grandfather make tragic mistakes for their son.

I think they simply have an unbalanced show screentime at least. At a con or whatever, Carlyle (the best actor on the show, imo) seemed to be excited about Rumple and Henry, since Neal was gone, they had an opportunity to bond, but that never happened did it. It's like someone on another forum asked "Do they even watch their own show?" A & E make statements like wanting action and plot over character moments when it's the characters that keep people connected too. A nice balance is great.