Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170111004119/@comment-26830263-20170113201355

I will just take the word 'reset' slightly, it's Dungey's interpreted word, not the writers. For me, the intention of the writers might just be let Rumple, Belle and Gideon leave Storybrooke to settle their own life, no magic, no power. And then they will return in the final batch of Season 7.

Then we keep the rest of the main cast, adding Ruby (and Dorothy), Lily (and Maleficent) to the mix. If it was me, I will also add Rothbart Swan as the main villain. He's the adopted father of Emma. Facilier invites him to return and become the main villain of the last season.

So the stories for Season 7 will be:

1. Swan Lake: for Emma, Rothbart Swan and Odette Swan, his forced wife.

2. An Author/Magical Land exploring quest for Henry, Regina and Hook, to expand and complete the mythology. Henry will meet Scheherazade, a past Author, and face the Forty Thieves leading by an evil Ali Baba.

3. The Frog Prince: Tiana, Naveen and Facilier, with Snow and Charming involved with them in the past. Facilier will perish in the winter finale. Odette, the Dying Swan, will die, and Rothbart, being angry at her death, will turn the whole town into swans (like the Wild Swans story). Emma must race to restore the town.

4. Sleeping Beauty/Dracula: After his first attempt fails, Rothbart revives Dracula, the father of Lily/Lilith the demon girl. There we can have 4 flashback:

- Mulan and her father, the Dragon. She will tell Aurora the truth and be ready to let her go. But then she finds a new love with Lily.

- Maleficent with Briar Rose and Dracula

- Ruby and Snow with her father, Van Helsing, the monster hunter.

- Dorothy and Van Helsing against Dracula in the Land Without Color (where Kansas is)

5. Zelena may also have an irrelevant flashback with Dorothy, cuz she's the main cast. Though I quite like the theory that Zel is Oz's savior, not Dorothy, as someone pointed out in another thread.

6. Rumple and Belle return for the peltinumate episode.

7, Then the 2-hour series finale.