Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24179430-20150314101547/@comment-25926288-20150428180633

GothicNarcissus wrote: Well, I understand that with so much going on at once the last thing we have time for is a post-Wonderland recap, but in my opinion, so far Will's subplot is definitely not working for anyone. Non-Wonderland viewers only get confused because the writers are giving a certain degree of prominence to a completely new character who came out of the blue and to whom they can't quite relate because little to no insight on his past or personality is being given; Wonderland viewers only get frustrated because it's a character on which they were generally invested, who had a past, a storyline and a closure, whose potential is being wasted on a pointless new storyline and whose happy ending was disrupted for no particular reason. OUATiW might have flopped in terms of viewers, might not have been perfect, but it had its own charm. It's frustrating they kinda threw it out basically to only have Will as a corner of the most obtuse love triangle in the show. His inclusion is the poorest writing choice they have had so far. I give them credit, he might become more interesting in the next season, but they should have waited to include him if they had no time to handle him. I also think that in addition to those things what is worst is...

1) They could have tied in his sister, Penelope, dying in a frozen lake with the Frozen arc somehow.

2) He actually intereacted with Maleficent of the past and like no interaction whatsoever.....and now he stole from her again.

3) He never mentions anything besides being a Merryman, a theif, and was in Wonderland. Nothing else of his backstory, except a pic of Ana and his sister's story.

At least they could have Belle and Will talk about stuff for a scene and not have it be about Rumple, other villains, etc.