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Esk's always altering rank

1. Season 1

2. Wonderland

3. Season 2

4. Season 3a

5. Season 4a

6. Season 3b

7. Season 4b

Almost in complete order! By no means do I dislike any season or even mildly tolerate it either. Upon first view and then rewatch my choices always vary. Season 1 was great as always, but I would almost put Wonderland on top. Sure, it had some wacky CGI (But Once does too...Regina slides across the floor, lol) and a slow start to some. However, I loved it the whole way through. Alice started to become that pretentious snobby character, but they even hit her with a dose of reality. Will and Alice I can actually buy as a relationship, but they stayed as friends which speak how much better it is then main Once. Wonderland was about finding themselves and each character did so. Each character got what they wanted even the villain, but still ended with a happy ever after. They never had any noticable continuity issues and even had a little but a fairytale dispersion like Once usually has. Now, let me stop talking about how Wonderful it is because I can go on for pages....

Everything else is pretty much in order. Why 3b anmd 4b in last is simply because they.......well;

3b had wonderful Zelena and was pretty much alternate season 1. Because it was always to me in Season 1's shadow (almost like a reboot of the series) it never got the the highest potential it deserved and it started the trend of ending the plot of the season arc early......which is a terrible idea when it's repeated all the time, They downplayed much of the things in Season 1 and even seemed to try to ruin Season 1's goodness with...yuck. Zelena has been good in this recent arc as well as that as totally crazy!

4b was when the Red Herring perfromed his master plan and toss many random things in our faces. I will not repeat myself with it's terribleness (but still liked it). Anyone dares to rewatch 4b and tell me how often Rumple's plan changes? If you say every episode, then you are right! It was pretty much tons of fluff and ruination of some characters that puts it last, no matter how seaon 5 goes and everyone can randomly die by a house falling on them.....

Season 2 was okay, had a little dialogue reptition (rewatch and count how many times something like "emotions...cloud..judgement), but that was much better than 4a's "cleave" and I believe Rumple says his plan three times in the finale episode because clearly 4a writer's thought we are 8 years old with a memory issue.

3a is my end of the series for the first part of Once since it's the part of the trilogy of great character development on this Hero's Journey.