Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160212132017

Lol, If Once ever gets replayed, it'll be down the tube, since you'd just watch it on Netflix or other streaming services.

I do agree with GHeather14 hat they are going in circles. I think they said so as well (unintentionally) that they wrote the beginning and they know how the sory is going to end, which means they don't know what will happen in-between.

As even I said 1-3a is the true show, I'd probably say 3b with some adjustments probably was still on true-ish Once soil. It wasn't strongest, but it was before severe fanservice showed up. I could do with a little fanservice and iconography but season 4 was what showed me that they clearly are capable and willing to sell-out. $a wasn't that bad either, but 3b started to emphasize the ships, but 4a was just completely selling out from Disney inserts to pushing characters into the background and even childish romance.

Say what you want about 3b (and there's quite a lot of bad), but at least Snow and Charming showed grown up love, Emma and Neal showed mature love, even Rumple and Belle were married upon iffy grounds, and Emma showed she wasn't willing to let another "love interest" die. But when 4a came about all the love became sitcom level or even worst 5a became twilight levels of laying in fields flat and being cheesy.

What I'd even give a gander to say that you could probably fuse 3b to 5a appropriately with nothing at all lost. It's simple. Have Rumple's act of killing Zelena make his heart dark and dying. Make 4b's finale become sort of 3b's finale. Then make Emma the Dark One and then continue on. Why could they do that? Because nothing of note actually happened in season 4.