Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-31937823-20180102211252/@comment-28162607-20180103003957

DeviousPeep wrote:

Lady Junky wrote: Without changing too much like you, I'd say:
 * 1) Scrap the entire dumb Dark Hook plot, and make the Dark Swan the REAL villain from A to Z. That's the main problem of this 5A. Dark Swan had SO MUCH potential by the end of S4, and they ruined it when they made Hook the co-DO and Emma just pretending to be evil. Emma should have been a real villain with a real evil motive. Would have been a great continuation of her 4B storyline Have Emma sacrificing herself at the end of 511. She'd ask Hook to kill her and they all go to the Underworld to save her, rather than Hook. It would have been more believable, and a stronger cliffhanger.

Just these two points would have made the entire 5A much better than it is. I agree with pretty much all of this. My complaints about Season 5 are more about 5A than 5B, the latter of which is definitely my favorite of the half season arcs they've done. Emma should've been the actual villain, not Hook, which I found to be a complete cop-out and what really turned the show into Once Upon a Captain Swan. Everyone going to the Underworld to save Emma is far more believable, and it would connect the two arcs better with the ensemble spending the whole season trying to save the Savior.

I I had my issues with Dark Hook but "OUACS"? We are breaking that age old compllaint out?

First off, the show is far from Once Upon A Captain Swan, even in season 5. CS really started getting prime screentime at the end of thearc. If you want I can pull up objective screentime for season 5.

Second, Emma is the main character. She deserves loads of screentime on her romantic arc, which had been neglected up until 5A which is not normal for any show, btu especially not a romance driven one like this. If anything, the lack of focus on Emma's love life pre season 5 was strange and unusual.

Remember when Snowing got way more screentime than almost anything in season 1? Where were the complaints of Once Upon A Snowing?

I get having issues with 5A and agree with some of them but this particular complaint is ridiculous and kind of shows a lack of understanding about how TV shows and narratives work.