Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160610032527

Disclaimer: I overthink this show.

Getting that out of the way, I realized (Once more) that there are some serious problems with our "heroes". Let's knock out mass murdering and partricide because the writers treat that as a casual sport or something because even Belle has "killed".

In season 5 especially, it confirmed that Killian has a serious drinking problem. Captain Silver got him to do morally bankrupt things (aka gamble all his money away) by enticing him to drink. In season 3, there was a passing mention by Peter Pan who called his a "pirate with one hand and a drinking problem". Who better than Pan to know about drinking your cares away! So, he really should stop, but Once hasn't addressed this drinking problem. Drinking problem + Anger issues aren't a good combination, especially with children (aka Henry) or relationships. It's almost telling when Killian got drunk on power/darkness and emotionally abused/ assaulted Emma, impulsively threatened Emma's family and child, and even commited murder (Ok, I said I'd drop that!).

Emma has seemingly given up her thieving ways, but now her son seems to have picked that part up, which sets a bad example for him. Once has shown a shoddy moral thru Robin Hood's first centric which proclaimed that "Stealing for yourself is BAD, but stealing for others is GOOD" which is beyond just simplistic black and white, but just terribly wrong in my (and I hope others) opinion.

For the sake of brevity, Zelena seems to be "on the heroes' side" when she just weeks ago did a "vile thing" to a man, admitted to killing this man's wife, tried to run off with the baby when threatening the man's life, betrayed his efforts to trust her, and now lies dead parially because of her. I can excuse Zelena of her involvement with Hades but Zelena can't simply be on the "heroes" team just because she's Regina's sister. Getting rid of the victim still doesn't get rid of what she did! Forgetting that, Zelena did kidnap Snow and David's baby, kill Hook, torture Regina emotionally, and even physically choked Henry. (We're not that blind....)

So, here's to hope that some of these are addressed in season 6.

1. Hook attends AA, maybe some sessions with Archie.

2. Henry gets an education, some friends, and some quality time......with Archie.

3. Zelena has some true redemption arc and not fall by the wayside.

Anything I missed? What are your thoughts? Feel free to share!  