Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171216015812/@comment-27060727-20171216023815

OUAT: The Darkness wrote: I think that was the point. I think they decided to do this to build suspense and questions for 7B, such as: And so on and so forth...
 * How did Tremaine end up on their side?
 * What is going on with Rumple?
 * What is going on with Alice and Rumple?

I think we'll appreciate this episode a lot more, when they fill in most of these blanks. I understand this is a storytelling method (that's not even new for OUAT), but counting on the audience accepting confusion now and hoping they hang on long enough to find stuff out is risky. Especially when little was answered. It works for a groundwork-laying premiere of sorts, but for a finale that's supposed to be climatic....?

So when the NEF flashbacks pick up again, should we be expecting flashbacks for flashbacks? Or will they just continue on from the 7x09 point where they met Jack, and 7x10 was the one fluke in the sequence because they needed to show the curse now?