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Farerb wrote: I couldn't disagree more about Neverland. Yes, we could have seen many pointless flashbacks about Bae, Tink, Hook and Pan that won't tell us anything really important. The main story (the present) would have dragged too much. I can't see them doing that for 22 episodes.

The problem with 4B is that they didn't know how to focus the story which resulted in a big mess. They could have done it in one season and perhaps it would have been better, but if they had decided to do 11 episodes, they should have cut characters. Ursula and Cruella were redundant and weren't important to the main story and just took screentime and 2 whole episodes while they could have establish more on this author, his powers and his limit, more time on the characters that matter and will stay on after the plot ends, more thought on how to explain things instead of dropping something that will resolve everything, the background of Maleficent and Aurora, or having a better connection to Snow and Charming backstories that would actually fit them and what we knew about them.

One option would have been to have the Frozen plot entwined with the Author plot without having useless QoD. Pointless??

I see an extended Neverland arc much like the Season 1 we all know and love...

Sure, perhaps there were a few barely-relevant stories (Hansel and Gretel perhaps?), but they all tied together in the end. That's my vision for an extended Neverland arc.

And I disagree on their pointlessness!! So much. So much. We are left with questions regarding how Tink ever ended up in Neverland! And especially backstory episodes featuring Baelfire as Curly could have been used to draw a parallel to the "present," making them very relevant...

I could definitely see it! Like I said, if they managed to jam-pack everything in Season 1 in so well, they could've done the same with the Neverland arc.

Plus, we could've seen some other inhabitants of Neverland.

IDK man, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, 'cuz you and I seem to see Neverland's potential very differently.