Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151116022115/@comment-1894786-20151116044959

MysticalMoose wrote: Oh I actually really liked it. "Birth" was intense, I love the main cast and their current story arc in s5, but I'm still worn out from last season where they overplayed them...their relationship dynamics were starting to feel tired and almost trite.

But I LOVE Merida, Mulan, and Ruby. They're all such great characters and it's refreshing to see something different. What drew me to the show in the first place was the retelling and expansion of all the stories from my childhood. You lose that when you focus on the same handful of people all the time. Right? Frozen had the fatal flaw of focusing on the Frozen crew and them only. This arc had the fatal flaw of introducing Brave and not focusing on it enough, which made both of its episodes that much more special.

Season 1 introduced the main characters and while it did focus on them most of the time, sometimes we got episodes solely focused on other characters. Same in season 2. From 3A onward, only time we get non-Main Character flashbacks is villain origin stories, and it's exhausting sometimes.

To get a break from the main crew if only for one episode, it's pretty refreshing. Though it should've been reversed in the order. 5x08 and 5x09 should've been switched. Or at least had their scenes merged so that we didn't have it be such a contrast of plot versus filler.