Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35659464-20181215100347/@comment-31722073-20181215173547

I think that 5A was probably the worst arc, making Killian, and then Nimue, and then the Darkness be revealed as the true big bad in close succession in addition to Arthur as villian and the writing of it didn't help. They should have made the Dark Swan the villian throughout the whole thing, then when she sacrifices herself to stop the Darkness it makes sense for every single main cast member to go down to the Underworld and save her (minus Zelena who'd be dragged down as prisoner), they could even get rid of Gold's stupid relapse for no reason and still make him Dark One by the Darkness latching itself onto him, or even he takes it in the Underworld to save Belle from Hades.

I think that Robin's death did work, I'm annoyed that they keep retconning what exactly the Olympian Crystal did to him though.