Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160926013536/@comment-25926288-20160926121039

I will say that the show could have ended at 3, with all three narrative threads essentially tied, but it was clear that this was not the writers intended in. It's had to wrap your mind around, but essentially if you make Emma the DO at the end of season 3, then replace season 4 with season 5 (tweaked, of course), then we'd get rid of a bunch of the character looping.