Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26715865-20151102073210/@comment-25926288-20151102194258

The 11 episode arcs are a neat idea and can work. I present to you a 13-episode show that they did themselves called Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It had a complete senese of storytelling, constant character development, only one instance of memory loss that was quickly resolved, no curse, and focus on the core cast.

Wonderland focused on the 5 characters(Alice, Cyrus, Will, Ana, and Jafar) and gave a little time to the extras, but nothing dominating. It had a villain, but it had plenty of small talks. You even had cross romance talk. You had Ana and Cyrus talk and Will and Alice's friendship (which was strong and no terrible love-triangle). You had real grey characters, no people calling others heroes and villains. A self-centered girl who had troubles with her father and seeking love. That foils Ana and Alice together, even Jafar. A charming thief that has a tragic past.....Will and Cyrus. You had the ideal couple with some flaws that they later discovered and then you had the real couple with tons of flaws that come back together. They even had some guest characters.

See! When they focus on a core cast and get to storytelling and not sporatic ideas, they can do great.

(Note: I don't care if you didn't like Wonderland, but its story and character development is the prime example of how things should go and their capability of doing so.)

But instead we have the core cast tossed aside for the guest characters and each arc usually has little spill over.