Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20161031211322/@comment-28162607-20180208134155

Okay here is a brief run-down of why I am not keen on 4B (despite some good episodes)

-Operation Mongoose. Regina had the exact same plan as the villains, to rewrite the book, and yet when she did it was okay, and everyone was helping her to manipulate reality to get her own way.

-Regina did some truly awful things (threatening Pinocchio, helping torture August, taking Belle's heart, cutting Lily) and yet she did not face any consequences and the narrative kpet treating her as a hero when she was acting like a villain. Really I think this arc should have sling shotted her back to the Dark Side, rather than continuing to be treaed as a hero.

-Really the whole "the reason I am unhappy is because of the BOOK" thing was just stupid imo. Rumple and Regina were unhappy because of the consequences of their own decisions.

-Trying to act like Emma killing Cruella was some evil and terrible thing.

-How badly they messed up re: Robin's rape, making it all about Regina and how unfair her life is.

-Rumple being utterly gross to Belle and it being framed as sweet and romantic.

-The "Snow and Charming are babynappers" plot. I feel like that was done just to prop up the villains.

I mean it had some good parts, some lovely CS and Swan Believer, Lily and Maleficant, Cruella, but overall it was pretty week. And like Alb said they tried to cram a lot into 11 episodes.