Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180101145807/@comment-25375217-20180102210025

Eskaver wrote: Though I think it’s a bit funny that half of the OG cast left, no one though it was going to be canceled. Bobby Carlyle was planning to leave, no thoughts of Once going toes up. Anwar is presumed to be gone now, a few peaked thoughts. But Kane is leaving and the the show is now done-done. All I can say is “Let’s wait and see how the story plays out.” That's because it's being piled upon. Again, Once is carried by its villains. They are the fan-favorites, the characters with the best writing, and the characters with the most focus in episodes and promotional materials more often than not. When half the OG cast left, we still had Regina, Hook, and Rumple plus the potential for new villains. When Rumple was planning on leaving, we still had Regina, Hook, Tremaine, and Drizella. By the time we found out Tremaine was leaving, it was clear that Regina and Hook are now full-fledged heroes instead of redeemed villains, so that left us with only Drizella. Now Drizella is leaving. The most popular, promoted, and well-written character trope on the show does not have any characters left to fill it, that we're aware of. That's concerning.

That said, we do still have Zelena, Facilier, Gothel, Anastasia, Alice, and Robin that we don't really know what's going on with them. Zelena, Anastasia, and Gothel aren't likely to stick around as regulars if at all, but Facilier, Alice, and Robin might, although the latter two we don't really know any of their motives to know if they could fill this niche (Alice has a lot of potential as an anti-hero, though).