Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-4453062-20160902214439

Eskaver wrote: I will say that it's an unnecessary retcon (in other words, a vaguely, unimportant part now to be expanded upon). Charming's dad could have been a nobody who was a drunk and died. That's it. There's nothing else to it. If Papa Charming is the Bravest Knight that ever could (and somehow outlived that accident), I'll cringe.

David's past isn't even close to the most intriguing thing about him which isn't saying much as he's bland toast. It's like---Oh my, Lookey here, Hook stumbled across his father in a very contrived way! What this? David's going to look for macguffin and ---Wha??? His father? What do you know? Small world! (Sarcasm just oozes off my example here.)

Adam says it best. "Charming has always had questions about his family (etc) that he thought were answered." Yep, it should stay that way. I don;t need to know that David mastered swordsmanship in a day from a princess and I definitely don't need backstory on a parent who's not relevant. Their rule of thumb seems to be if we only heard about it, but never actually saw it, then there's the possibility that it's not entirely true. You can't always trust word of mouth on this show. Some people lie, or they're misled to believe something else. Often times these are blatant retcons, while other times they're planned in advanced.