Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4467206-20141030145027/@comment-1916997-20141101053813

I'm going to agree with the majority of the people as say Season 4 has been pretty good so far. Honestly the only thing I dislike about this season (and the last season), is that the story arcs, while nice and focused, take away for new characters and stories randomly popping up like they did in seasons 1 and 2. Some of this might be intentional, as I said it let's the main characters of the arc shine more and also allows for new stories to be slowly introduced, thus prolonging the show, but it means we get very few new stories introduced a season as a result. It also has another effect, that can be both a positive or a negative depending on your point a view. The positive is that the self contained arcs means if you are not digging the Frozen arc, for example, you know in 11 episodes all the characters from it will be gone, and probably never seen again (until maybe the final season). The negative is that if you are digging the Frozen arc, you won't see the characters after the 11 episodes (until maybe the final season). I also dislike this way because it means we need to spend time making characters appear in someway (i.e. Elsa's urn) and then disappear 11 episodes later (i.e. Pan and Zelena's deaths). One of the whole points of the show is you have all sorts of possible character mash ups, because they are all living in the same town. Think Red and Victor. That's a crazy awesome mash up. But if they decided to not have those characters just stay existing in town, we wouldn't have gotten that. I also worry that should the show starts not doing well, and get a finale season earlier that expected (I think the network is invested enough in this show and in Adam and Eddy to let them give it a proper send off), we will have a list of "we wanted to do this on the show, but couldn't fit it in" from Adam and Eddy, and I'd hate to miss out on fun twists on other stories because we kept spending 11 episodes on one story at a time. That being said, I still love the show, but I hope we find a balance between 11 episode arcs and having a random story in every episode (think Hansel and Gretel). And I really hope we don't get a full season of Camelot, as I've seen suggested on here a few times. 11 episodes will be more than enough, should they so choose, we don't need 22. If they need that many, I'd much rather just have Once Upon a Time in Camelot as a spinoff.