Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25940576-20150423202907/@comment-25926288-20150423232036

If anything, they can't balance their campy, fun times and their serious tension. In 4a, the spell of Shattered Sight was built up as a kingdom-wide life-wiper, the Norse King casted the curse and many or all the people died in his realm. Ingrid does it and we don't see or hear of any casualties, no deaths, no arrests, no anything. The plot literally lives in a bubble. Chernabog was ok with mixing the main cast with the background cast. But then Mal puts the town to sleep and apparently no one was driving, climbing ladders, or anything. Regina put Marco to sleep, id he still asleep, is he worried about August? We never see these things.

Likewise we barely mix arcs. So, whatever happens in the finale, aka a potentially lost/ Dark One Emma will carry on in Season 5a (hopefully a whole season, instead of a half) will explore that issue. Emma won't understand Hook/Regina/Rumple because unlike them she'll be evil for at most a couple of weeks, while they were evil for decades. He says hard on the audience so it'll likely be Emma, while I'll stand over in my corner laughing at the distressed fans (Oh no, will Emma never come back? Oh no, will they kill her).

If they play their cards right, it'll be fine. The finale will likely be a tense, yet fun times exploring the AU. But, 10/10 they'll play it as a serious and dangerous thing that'll destroy everything we have known and loved!