Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20170512075725/@comment-25926288-20170512212901

I think the season was planned, but the execution was rather poor (as usual). I think it is a "I imagined it would be better than this" situation. On paper, it sounds solid.

Let's finish off Queenie in a small resolution arc, while Gideon's plan unfolds. Then introduce the Black Fairy to the audience and ramp up tension to the final battle while having the heroes get closure and go towards their happy "beginning". Sounds great, but didn't really go as planned. I'll talk more about it, but I think the major points of error were:

1. Aladdin and Jasmine should have been a one or two epsiode thing and never seen again in relevance as they were largely irrelevant. They were more detracting that Merida.

2. While the concepts sound great, the Black Fairy would have been better if she wa introduced earlier (at least episode 1 of season 6) and ints were dropped in backstory, etc.

3. Ridiculous angst is ridiculous. They often to the plot drift and it gets annoying.

4. It gets props over season 5. Season 6 had mini- arc, major arc, major arc, season arc, etc with like one or two things dropped into oblivion. Season 5A had so many dropped plots that you could weave a baby blanket.

5. (If one writer wrote all the episodes, there would be greater consistency in terms of character and plot drift.)