Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25850402-20160505035630/@comment-27213286-20160509045010

Flash-forwards would guarantee the people we see in the future are still alive then, that would take away from the suspense when they are fighting the big bad. If thy were to do it going that far in the future would be a bad idea, they would have to do it similar to how Arrow or Agents of SHIELD did it, show a vague funeral/death scene where we know someone will die but don't know who and only go as far in the future as the end of the season. They could also do what a few other shows have done for a single episode and show scenes from the end of the episode at the beginning and slowly fill things in as they episode progresses. But even if they did one of those I don't see how it would fit well with the way the show is run. They would have to be very careful to not give anything away in the flash-forwards, just how enough to keep the audience interested in how they got there.

They would have to do it similar to how they did the Camelot story arc, minus the mind erasing, but have the main story be what happened in Camelot and and how Emma became evil while the flash-forwards show what she is planning not that she is the Dark Swan with it all coming together in the same timeline in the finale. If they were going to try to use flash-forwards Camelot arc or Robins funeral would have probably been the best chance to test it out and see how the audience liked it.