Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20160602175241/@comment-25375217-20160603195957

CoolDudeAl wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: I wouldn't mind Season Six being a whole season about the Land of Untold Stories. It would be a lot like Season One, I think, with a lot of episodes dedicated to side characters and there being some sort of curse breaking involved.

I also think the Underworld arc would have been like this if it hadn't only been a half-season. I feel like we might have gotten to see more characters like Colette or Felix who have died instead of just the major or popular ones (like Cora, Pan, Henry, and Cruella) plus Blind Witch as a background character. Gaston was really the only not popular or important character who got any backstory (which turned out really well), and I think we could've gotten more of that if they had more episodes to not focus on the important characters. We probably didn't get more characters because some of them would have moved on (so plot wise it wouldn't have made sense), some of the actors probably were busy with other projects, and the show may have simply run out of budget to pay more actors. I think we actually got a lot of characters (and not all were expected, or who I would consider major or popular), just look at this list: James, Apprentice, Cora, Pan, Blind Witch, Henry Sr., Cruella, Neal, Milah, Liam, Gaston, Stealthy, and Claude. And those are just dead characters, we also got reappearances from living characters like Dorothy, The Woodcutter, The Dragon, Little John, and Friar Tuck. And on top of that, they made sure to carry over characters from 5A, both old ones like Red, Mulan, Maurice, and Blue, and new ones like Arthur, Merida, and Violet. Overall, I was very pleased with 5B, and hope that however Season 6 is handled, they keep up having lots of characters reappearing, like 5B. But out of those characters, we only got episodes focusing on Cora, Henry Sr., Milah, Liam, Gaston, Dorothy, Red, Arthur, and Violet. And out of those, Cora/Henry and Dorothy/Red were combined, and Violet was only in the post-5B finale (which wasn't a part of the Underworld arc). We also had Cruella, Blind Witch, Dragon, and Pan in major roles, but they never got an entire episode focused around them (though, in return, they appeared significantly more often than the characters who were focused on). With how well they were able to throw that many characters in, imagine how much better they might have done if they had twice as much time. Stealthy could've gotten backstory instead of an off-hand comment for his unfinished business. We might have actually learned Cruella and Blind Witch's unfinished business. Or we might have seen Arthur and Cruella battle for control of the Underworld. Maybe more out of Hades's backstory with Zeus and Kronos. Etc.