Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150912032554/@comment-1916997-20150912164502

Eskaver, obviously focusing on the main characters is important, but I think you underestimate how many people want to know more about the supporting characters. And unlike a book series, which generally focuses on a few main characters, a tv show is allowed to focus on different characters in different episodes. Furthermore, many of these characters have an elevated status due to them being from a classic story. As soon as you see someone like Lancelot or Mulan, you already know something about them, unlike in most series where each character is original, so you are already more invested in them, even if they only appear in a supporting role in an episode. As for flashbacks, in things that use them, they are rarely for the main characters, because everything the main character does that is important you see when it happens. Flashbacks are useally given to characters who had important things happen before the main character's story began. Two great examples of this are Harry Potter and Naruto. We never get flashbacks for them, because we see everything happening with them when it happens. It's other characters that get flashbacks, so when Harry and Naruto run into them, we understand that character more. Once uses flashbacks the same way, so we can understand the characters that interact with Emma in the present day plot better. It is for that reason that I feel the flashbacks should often feature supporting characters, even with out any main characters present.