Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160414154159/@comment-26159109-20160418040141

I feel like this season is an improvement over 5A and even 4B, but it might be more shiny distractions than anything. I feel like this season is so unfocused with again more plots than they can handle in 12 episodes. It might be too early to tell, but I feel like this season is heading towards the messiness that we saw in 4B. So far we have Saving Hook, Taking down Hades, Snow returning to herself (which is dropped), Zelena's baby (which is all about Regina somehow), Zelena and Hades ship (cause they can't write characters if they are not paired together), Rumbelle's baby, Henry's author powers. In addition, it doesn't help that all of those are sometimes sidelined in favour of rescuing someone and filler episodes like 518.

Again, if those plots had been ran together in a 22 episodes season, then there would have been time to flesh them, there would have been time to delve deeper in Henry's author powers as part of the mythology of the show, we could have seen a set up on Zelena and Hades and not something that is just thrown in there. I just feel like once again they are biting more than they can chew and it's just a shame cause I see a lot of potential badly executed, but that is ultimately what the show has become.