Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160320090443/@comment-26159109-20160320172542

Eskaver wrote: Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: Oh, the thought that Once is "character driven". Once has tons of plot and tons to go around, which is why there's hardly a dull moment or why it's not chock-filled with character moments. If someone has problems with the flashbacks then I don't know how they made it this far. At the beginning, the flashbacks used to reveal something new about the characters and develop them, but sometimes they just tell us the same thing over and over again. The only time I felt the flashbacks were unnecessary were sometimes in season 2, 4A when it revolved Anna and some main character, 4B and 5B so far.

And no, OUAT is not chatacter-driven. It used to in season 1-2, but now it's plot and plot and plot, and you can tell by how characters do illogical things for the sake of plot. The issue with some FBs is that the character "learns a lesson" 20 years ago and for some reason they re-realize it. I think most are good as they establish a variety of things. I rather that than a void. I have a feeling they wouldn't fill it with anything interesting. Maybe some Belle in SB finding clues that Rumple is Dark One. (Would be good, but that would probably drag).

My problem with the flashback is how sometimes they are contrived, don't make sense and illogical. Like it was said here, 511 flashbacks were completely unnecessary, momentum killer and didn't make sense in the timeline.

Another example is 513, so now we know that Hercules taught Snow to shoot arrows, that's great, however, we also saw that she was somehow an expert after 3 hour(?), that Snow doesn't have soldiers or knights that are far more suitable to deal with the bandits?!, that she and Hercules were friends and he was her first crash and she mentions it to her husband only now?! And we realize it only now?! And all of that is nothing compared to what they did with Snow and Charming in 4B.

I said it in the other thread, each flashback is one piece of a really large puzzle, but there are a lot of instances that you need to force the piece to fit in the puzzle, 513 is an example of that.