Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-33386384-20180525212302/@comment-34657163-20180526020512

Lady Rapunzel wrote:

This season had a great potential, but all the timeline issues, unfinished storylines (no, i’m not talking about Lily’s father or Will and Anastasia, i’m talking about Season 7 storylines)... i mean... There were literally SEVERAL storylines that felt rushed and/or incomplete in this season.

The Wish Realm involvement really hurt the season. It was the most plausible way to explain Emma’s absence, yes, but the show was supposed to reboot... and yet they brought back a storyline from a 2-episode arc from season 6 and just... made things far more complicated than they originally were. Agree with the Wish Realm involvement. They could have Hook and Emma be separated by some mysterious illness/or the curse of the poisoned heart, and by coincidence or by some magical force that temporarily stops her from being brought by the curse (or, Gothel could have just decided, "nope! you could break the curse so you get to stay home") and it would have made more sense than Wish Hook suddenly having a backstory that randomly connected to some other foreign land. OG Hook also would have made his interactions with Rumple infinitely more rewarding.

''They also could have just not brought back Colin because tbh I'm not really sure why they brought him back in the first place but initially wrote off Bex's character, and Emilie's (although, I'm more tolerant of Belle being written off). ''

Do those several storylines include the coven and Facilier? If so, I agree! In the coven's case, I think they should have just dedicated a little more time and attention to it (in Flower Child's present day "look at this reunited not-dead coven!"), and probably could have skimmed down witch Hunger Games feat. Adelaide Kane & Sarah Canning.

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All this new realm stuff also felt unnecessary. Alice could have just gone to the original Wonderland imo, seeing as "new" H & G were in Oz (and the blind witch was probably in Arendale?). Explanation for different versions of characters? Easy: they're just similar people who happen to have the same names, and we never saw them because evil queen decided to cut off connections with them and so we never heard from them.

Nick is a weird character. He was kinda unnecessary overall besides being a catalyst in Zelena's sendoff (which was great btw). It would have meant more if a certain coven had some of its members stay dead... or not replaced. His justifications for his killings actually have very interesting foundations (plus contrasting Henry's, "oh my adoptive mom and aunt just happen to be mass murderers but I live with them" would have been very compelling had it been fleshed out more). The only thing he did in his first episodes was be responsible for Lucy's belief, when they could have just as well (although less creatively, and makes Jacinda look even worse) had Jacinda say something careless about Lucy's belief.