Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160211115255

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: Yeah, that title though.

Anyhow, I'd ignore "ships" because writers don't write them, they write characters. If the show ended at 3 seasons, many would have been calling for more and I serious think many people are really not counting 3b. I know I didn't use to count it, but it wasn't all that bad, just missing something that might have helped.

I think if if we segmented the season 3b and onward, it would actually be decent, because there are gems that are needed to be discovered. We all had a few episodes we liked in 4a, 4b, and 5a, so it's not like it was terrible. All shows have a tipping point and I think we can tell where Once's was.

Upon a rewatch, I would say that 3a, even though I liked Pan was a little meh in some aareas and 3b made up for those areas, but had meh parts itself. So, I say that seasons 1-3 were actually solid. I actually think witht he resurfacing of Zelena and the Oz flashbacks of season 4 and potentially beyond, the writers showed how they could have improved 3b, but those were slightly different writers and clearly didn't plan up to season 5. You already know what I think about 3B, and the segments are like that because the series was rebooted after 3A, not 3B. It doesn't necessarily have to do with quality or popularity.

There were a lot of episodes I liked after 3A : 313, 408-411, 420, 505, 507. They were all fine, but in my opinion the show's last outstanding episode was 311. Well, I guess there are differnces of opinions. I loved 3a, 3b, and 4b when watching live, but upon rewatch 3a is sort of "meh" and I finally understood some dislike for the arc. 3b was fairly solid, but had iffy moments like Neal's random death and the skim pickings of Oz. It was a nice parallel to season 1, rather than 4b's being a retelling and destruction of season 1, Snow and Charming mostly.

311 was amazing, but average 3a episodes, not take one out of 11.