Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150504013901/@comment-1916997-20150504124712

GothicNarcissus wrote: I don't know, to be honest. The present-day narration is pretty fast and it could have been stalled with more episodes. On the other hand, a few things really feel rushed, so it might have worked all the same in 22 episodes time. Sure, we would have needed more backstories than they could provide us with.

Frozen came half-unexpected, and that clearly affected the writing. But I don't know if it would have been worst to have half a season of filler before developing this storyline into full S5, or rushing it a bit like they did. Perhaps they should have condensed the Frozen arc to one quarter of season and leave the other three to this plot. That could have worked as well, but they like there 11 episode arcs too much. As far as doing 4B as a whole season by itself, it could work, but they would need some more present day plots and flashbacks. Some of the flashbacks I already outlined (Mal and Briar Rose backstory, Will and Ana backstory, Another Ursula backstory, Another Cruella backstory, etc.). It will be interesting to see which of these we get next season.