Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-33386384-20180525212302/@comment-1916997-20180727151440

Nick/Jack/Hansel served three purposes:

1. He was there to explain who Lucy's dad was under the curse. Jacinda had to think she had Lucy with someone, and it wasn't going to be Henry.

2. He allowed for us to explore the coven witches a bit, although this was a bit poorly executed, as we didn't find out about all of them, and then Gothel replaced them all anyway.

3. He allowed for a new version of Jack and the Beanstalk and Hansel and Gretel. Which was one of the points of this season, new versions of characters we had seen before.