Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24301813-20161024191847/@comment-24674051-20161027162712

DatNuttyKid wrote: Will Scarlet in Season 4 was much less coy. While they never did any plots or anything, several things he did (like the comments about liking evil queens, the picture of the Red Queen, etc.) wouldn't make sense without knowledge of the spinoff. The problem was, they stuffed Season 4 too full of things and never had time to truly explore it, and then ticked Michael Socha off. And that right there is the argument that they were and are being coy. To the viewer familiar with Wonderland, the little subtle cues made sense. But to the viewer not familiar with Wonderland, the cues were either barely noticed or simply brushed aside. And then, by the end of the season they had Will having a dalliance with Belle, which to me seems like an indication that they were simply ignoring Wonderland completely by that point.

Similarly, The inclusion of Lydgate in "Strange Case" falls into that same category. Those familiar with Wonderland take that as a subtle reminder that Wonderland is part of the series, but nothing more. And with Jafar, we are not even getting that, since they are tying Jafar to the Aladdin story, and appear to be completely ignoring his part in Wonderland altogether.

The point is that occasionally they throw a tidbit in that indicates they might remember the spin-off, but they never really do anything to actively promote the connection. They need to quit dancing around the elephant in the room and do something about it. (Just my opinion).