Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25703308-20150417091913/@comment-25926288-20150418021832

CoolDudeAl wrote: I hate to tell everybody this, but the show is not going to stop adding new characters. To me (and I'm sure other people), seeing new characters and stories is a highlight of the show. I'm also confused how some people can complain that we need to see more of the mains in flashbacks. Remember the episode in season 3 where they showed Snow and Charming on their honeymoon, and remember how everyone complained that that was a horrible flashback. You can't have it both ways. If you only want to see the main cast, we will get more and more flashbacks like that, as they struggle to show us meaningful scenes with the main cast. Personally, I'd much rather get new characters flashbacks than have to sit through more Snowing or Rumbelle flashbacks, as they are getting increasingly boring. What I mean at least is don't pile up the characters and take away from the main cast. Remember, regardless of whoever or whatever, the main cast are the show and will be the center of it. Their flashbacks will continue until the end. What we mean is not Frozen levels of takeover of the plot. Some may love it, but many also did not. Dividing the current audience isn't something they want to afford. The main 7 and a villain or whatever is fine. The main seven and 5 more recurring is dividing the time and the effectiveness. Example, season 4b has R, R, S, D, B, W, H, R, Z, M, U, C, The Peddler, August and I will say without a doubt the QOD are unimpressive as the villans of 4a. Mal was really the only one besides Rumple that has any relation to the cast. We probably forgot that Cruella was around or Ursula was ever a part of this group. That means a waste. They probably forgot all about August and we'll never see him again. What they do is cycle through characters and they can't clog up the drain by making it smaller and adding more characters to remain relevant.