Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31937823-20180102211252

Most of the fandom seems to agree that 5A was the worst arc in the series. Here’s how, IMO, it could have been better:

- I’d take away Merida (she didn’t really serve any major role in the plot)

- Remove the Dark Curse, and have the events mostly be set in Camelot (avoid repetition)

- Zelena is not given custody of her child immediately, and Emma finds out about what happened to Graham, turning her against Regina (acknowledging both storylines).

- Hook murdering David’s father would’ve been moved here in the flashbacks, and Regina abusing Emma with the dagger would’ve been discussed.

- Emma would take on the role of Morgan Le Fay. She is foretold by the people of Camelot to be the “mother of darkness” (as Morgan was the mother of Mordred in the stories), and so they turn against her.

- Zelena has a bigger role as a villain in this arc, exposing truths about Emma’s family (Hook murdering David’s father, Regina’s relationship with Graham and her mass-murdering, Snow and Charming taking the darkness out of her and putting it in Lily).

- Emma comes to term with the loss and hardships she has endured in her life, so more flashbacks in 5A would have detailed her childhood and how much she has suffered.

- Arthur, in an attempt to stop Emma from going into a murderous rampage as written in one of Merlin’s prophecies, executes her whole family with Excalibur. Emma manages to save them by making them all Dark Ones (Hook, Snow, Charming, Regina, etc).

- The only way to save her family is to destroy the light forever. She takes them all back to Storybrooke where she asks Hook to kill her with the sword, snuffing out the light by removing the life of the savior. I also would have brought Emma’s visions of her death here, but the person under the hood is actually her as she decides to sacrifice herself for her family.

- Snow holds Emma in her final moments, and flashbacks to when Snow first held Emma as a baby in her blanket. An emotional moment that centers around her family (like what OUAT used to do). Then they all journey to the Underworld to save her.

How do you think it could have been fixed? 