Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20170115054549/@comment-1916997-20170119053142

GothicNarcissus wrote:

Personal preferences and shipping notwithstanding, Once is fortunately enough of a "choral" show that it would allow it to continue even if it lost a core character or two. I, for one, think it would be harder for it to go on without Bobby than JMo: even if the present day storyline could do without both, Emma isn't needed for FTL flashbacks, while Rumple has been lurking and toying with pretty much everything that has happened in the past 200+ years of FTL history; how many flashback can you realistically write without needing for him to pop up at some point? That's partially the writers fault as well though. They didn't have to have every character go to Rumple when they had a problem, they did it out of convenice because Bobby is main cast. If you had new characters who never interacted with Rumple, because even if they did need magical help, they went to someone else, it wouldn't be a problem. Alternativly, they can also just do the scenes around a character going to Rumple for help, you see them deciding to go to Rumple in the first flashback, and then the next you see them with whatever help Rumple gave them, leaving. We've all seen that play out so many times, we really don't need to see that interaction anymore.