Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20161205084124/@comment-24674051-20161215165543

I will agree that there are things that can be discussed (and you bring up a couple of good items). My main rant was the growing number of complaints about the different storylines, and how they were not "wrapped up". As we've seen this year, even possibly open plot lines that had been seemingly forgotten are brought up and either moved forward or resolved. So, discussion of non-terminated storylines is, in my opinion, premature.

Now, one thing that I have noticed this season is that there seem to be fewer one-episode macguffins. I'm not saying we didn't have any, because we did. But it seems to be fewer, and they've made more sense to the story lines than some from seasons past. The one that strikes me as the most macguffiny so far this year was the sands that Rumple used to enter Belle's Dreamworld, and even that was not a terrible as some previous ones (such as the True Love scale). I think they are doing better about how they incorporate items of importance, and using them to move a story, but not resolve a story.