Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20161031211322/@comment-28162607-20171231212958

TheRose123 wrote:

Aine1989 wrote: From what I can tell from this, seasons 1 and 3 seem to be the most popular.

I think season 3 was the last overall good season (although parts of 3B drove me up the wall) but 4a was the last solid arc. There are scattered good moments from 4b-season 6 but really 4A was the last good arc 4B was really where the series went downhill because there were many OOC moments, scattered plotlines, and it was very totally uneven (not to say other seasons didn’t have this problem before). It’s kind of interesting though, on the polls on this site the majority voted for Season 6 as the best season. Seasons 1-4A had their fair sahre of issues, some arcs more than others but they were mostly overshadowed by moments of good quality storytelling, character development, promoting healthy family dynamics and intriguing villains and plots.

From 4B onwards,  more and more issues were piled on that started to take away from the good parts of the show. And it did seem like they ran out of ideas; Underworld was a discount Neverland, CS in season 6 went through the same issues they went through in seasons 4 and 5, Regina in 5x23 and 6A was a rehash of her season 4 "villains don't get happy endings" schtick, they kept the "we are never ever getting back together, like ever" story for RumBelle going for two seasons. It got more than a little repetitive.