Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4775130-20150611162216/@comment-1745351-20150612100004

SkyCloud24 wrote: I don't understand how or why he was a starring member in the first place. He doesn't have a story on Once like he did on Wonderland. He appears in random scenes like a reminder that he's actually still there and he's Belle's rebound guy just so he has some sort of purpose on the show.

I believe that writers braugh him in Once, because they probably was planning for him big role. But instead they realised they don't know what to do with him and his role was so demoted.