Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20141224185559/@comment-25926288-20150313190057

Farerb wrote: D.Prince wrote: They rush all the other stories and think they should take their time. Cora could had more development, the same with Zelena and Snow queen. Peter pan and season 1 was ok and quite complete. Agree. When they take their time with the story, they come up with brilliant ideas and good explainations. With Zelena a lot of the time the reason to things happening is MAGIC. Kind of like how they ressurected Maleficent - the blood of the people who wronged her most ( What a coincidence!!!). They run on coincidences or work retroactively but leave themselves room to cover up. Why would Rumple be afraid of death when he can be resurrected. I'm sure Rumple knew about that and he could have told Belle or Neal. Zelena was a retcon on Cora. Cora seemed to actually be a decent person, more so with a heart in season two. In season 3b she isn't a decent person at all and they add additional straw to gold parallels like we don't know Cora is the Miller's daughter. Regina gets weaker and weaker every new villain encounter. Regina's threat and her and Snow's story seem extremely stretched over a short period of time.

Anna arrived in EF before David became prince (~4-5 years before the curse) then went back to Arendelle and Belle visits and leave. Ingrid freezes Arendelle and apparently travel across time and space since she arrives a year before the curse. Which means Arendelle, a prosperous country was frozen for 3-4 years without any care in the world.

I think they would benefit from a slower pace. We have three villainesses and each could have been on their own, maybe not Cruella. But we have three backstories in 9 episodes before the set up for the next arc.