Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180412153113/@comment-1581533-20180412172406

Pretty much the whole show since Season 3 xD First of all, I think the show should have ended with the "Going home" farewell scene and then reboot it with new stories. I don't know if it would have worked rating-wise, but as long as the stories would be good people would accomodate to new characters.

Besides that, pretty much every arc/story was a missed opportunity, especially by being only 11 episodes long or shorter. Oz, Camelot and The Land of Untold Stories were all 1-season long material. The Queen of Darkness and Hades should have gotten more flashbacks; we had not backstory for Hades, we don't know why Maleficent hated Aurora's family and we've seen little to nothing about Ursula and the QoD being evil.

Don't get me started on Merlin, Hercules, Aladdin, Fiona, Mulan, Robin and so on. Those characters were introduced and then forgotten (e.g. Hercules), poorly adapted (seriously, how can you even make an Aladdin episode with no genie?) or downplay them (Fiona was supposed to be the greatest evil of them all and was not menacing at all).

As of Season 7, I listed all the missed opportunities in the "How could season 7 be improved" thread, such as revealing that Gothel had been working with Zelena in the 3x14 flashback or have Facilier as the main villain and tie his backstory to Hades.

Aine1989 wrote: Basically, a place to talk about the times the show really missed a chance to do something great (I wasn't sure where to put this so if someone puts it in the Rant&Rave section that's cool).

Mine are:

Doing a female Hook (sorry Cols I love you) or even Milah as Hook (which would also open up another Snowing parallel because "Captain Hook's a girl?" "Woman.")

Paralleling Emma killing Cruella to save Henry with Liam killing the crew of the Tempest to save Killian.

Ending the show on Emma's birthday and having a parellel to one of the most iconic scenes from the pilot. Or ending it on Emma's wedding, that works too.

August as Baelfire.

Red Beauty.

Using the Dark Swan arc to resolve the Charming family issues and Emma's baggage where she can finally take it out on the people who caused it.

That's all I can think of for now anyway.

This would have been great and would have added a lot of depth to the arc.