Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25703308-20170722200535/@comment-32569754-20170807070751

Well, after the recent interviews with E&A and the main cast members I am even more hesitant about season 7 more than ever now. From everything I'm hearing it seems to me like season 7 is just basically a repeat of season 1, but with different characters. This is exactly what E&A said they weren't doing. But, a new curse, the characters no longer having their magic. That all sounds exactly the same as season 1. Especially if the new curse and the no magic thing is going to last the entire season. If that is the case then I'm out. I for one like the show more where the characters have their magic back. It makes the show more interesting. From season 2 and onward the show got more awesome for me, because that's when the characters got their magic back. I'm really not interested in sitting through another entire season where the characters don't have their magic. Season 1 did that already. So yeah, a curse that srtipped away everyone's memories, nobody has their magic any more, a kid that comes along and has to get the Savior to believe. That is an exact repeat of season 1. So WTH?

The other thing is that, at this point, it's pretty much been confirmed that Lana, Robert, and Colin are basically playing new characters. We're only going to see their old personas in flashbacks. To be perfectly honest I'm not sure I understand what the goal is here. If the point was to give them new characters then why not just have them portray NEW characters to begin with. Right now it seems like the only reason they are keeping the old personas (Regina, Rumple, and Hook) is for a cheap marketing scam to sort of fool old fans to get interested in the new season. I really don't get it. Why didn't E&A just make a new show with a different name but the same general idea? Now they have to come and dump on all the characters and stories that the old fans have grown to love with this "soft reboot". I may be among the "naysayers", but the more I hear of this soft reboot the more I start to hate it. So far I haven't heard a single idea in the soft reboot that I'm happy with. It seems to me this is more aimed at new viewers, and long time fans be damned. I'm trying hard to keep an open mind, but the things I'm hearing about season 7 are making me very unhappy. :(