Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25491743-20180209181244/@comment-26205545-20180404221808

AquaSoloSky wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Applegirl wrote: Jim OUATcollins wrote: I LOVE Snow White, Snowing, Ginny, Gosh and basically everything that involves Snow. Ginny is the main reason why I started watching the show, but I don't JUST love Snow. I've become a huge fan of the entire show, of all its characters, ships, seasons and episodes. Unfortunately, most Oncers are so passionate about a character or a ship that they only watch the show for them. I've always hated the fact that Emma, Hook & Regina are the ones that get all the spotlight and every other character is neglected. Don't get me wrong, I love these three (Regina is my #2 favorite character of the show), but Snow, Charming, Belle, Rumple & Henry are hugely underrated. I have to agree. There were certain plotlines going on during the seasons where some characters got their moments to shine, but the majority of all the seasons, Emma, Regina, and Hook took up the most screentime, in my opinion. You're not wrong, but I think there were reasons other than "writer preference" for that;

For much of late season 5, Ginny was pregnant.

In seaosn 6, Ginny and Josh were the parents of two kids under 5

Emilie was also pregnant in season 5 (also lbr here, Belle isn't much of a character in her own right)

Henry is a child, played a by a child actor Those are fair explanations. However, one thing the show always did was have a regular that they just never utilised. I’m sure they had to be paid more or some money thing but come on! Look at this! I can definitely see where some people are coming from. But Tiana was probably made a regular so Chicago Med couldn’t snatch her and make Mekia unavailable.
 * Season 1: Archie/Jiminy Cricket (9 Episodes?!)
 * Season 2: Ruby/Red (Absent from the final 5 episodes of the season. Granted she got a lead role on another show, but even in her episodes she had very few scenes.)
 * Season 4: WILL! What was even the point of him?!
 * Season 5: now, this annoys me the most. Robin. I read that Sean moved to be closer to set once he was upgraded. Then during the season, we were promised more Robin backstory, yet he didn’t even get any form of centric! Nothing! I swear he must be the only SR to never have had a centric in his season. (Will’s only one was kind of shared? But he had Wonderland.)
 * Season 7: Tiana who?
 * Season 4 and 6 can be argued as Belle, but she doesn’t have a character outside of Rumple.