Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151215200142/@comment-26443838-20151217013459

Budloopy4 wrote: I give it a 5.5/10 really one of my least favorite arcs.it had such potential, but they wasted so much stuff once again on characters we won't see that much more of. What they always do is keep the big porblems in passing, just mentioning them each episode, until they come to a stupid conclusion after having spent the entire time on tertiary characters.

Things I liked:

-hook as a dark one twist

-"The Dark Swan" and "Dreamcatcher"

-how they spun Arthur into a villain

-the dagger and Excalibur relation

Things I disliked:

-The use of another dark curse (ANOTHER ONE!)

-the whole Henry and Violet thing, especially because they didn't conclude it

-Merida (I thought she was good, but it was just too crowded)

-the misuse of Regina, snow, charming, and belle.

-the unnecessary back stories

-the resolution and rumple is the dark one again, and he betrayed belle again

-they're going to Neverland, i mean the Underworld, again.

A better story would have been to have a select few go to Camelot and a select few stay in storybrooke, that way, they only needed one or two flash back episodes. I'm thinking Regina, Emma, Hook and Henry go to Camelot, while Snowing helped Maleficent and Lily find her father, Belle and Robin (old friends if we remember) would work together to awaken Gold and deal with Zelena being fiendishly pregnant. In the end, Snow and Charming would make it up toMaleficent and Lily and their story could have been resolved, or introduce the next arc (perhaps the father being the Distinguished Gentleman), Zelena would have escaped to Oz (still pregnant) and been in the same place as she was sent in Swan Song, Emma and Hook could have ended the same (with the exception of the darkness actually being destroyed and gold still normal) and then a few people would go to the underworld, I'm thinking Lily, Emma, Snowing, Gold, and Belle, while Regina stays in storybrooke with Henry and Robin to work with Maleficent to get Zelena and the baby back. My thoughts about Snowing, Maleficent and Lily are exactly the same. That would be a beautiful friendship and to help Lily who they truly are. This could lead to what is similar in the AU. Since Snowing and Maleficent worked together in a peaceful way, it sounded like the start of a beautiful friendship. I think next season should focus on mothers this time.