Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151026005934/@comment-1916997-20151102154725

Ray Donovan wrote: So what you are saying that there is no time for Robin and Regina having a conversation revolving Marian's murder which is the basic reason he was available to date in the first place?

OUAT has horrible pacing. They have a lot of irrevelent things that happen in "plot" which are essentially useless but A&E already said that they like action and find "talking" boring. Ironically, character moments, when OUAT actually does it, it what they excel at.

When you tell and not show is how BAD fiction works. Important conversations helps the audience to infer why a character does this or that is essential to story telling, at least good ones. No one is saying that every single moment that character A to character B has to be seen. First off, Regina never murdered Marian, at least since Emma and Hook changed the timeline. Emma saves Marian and is going to take her back to the future, but when Marian is left alone, Zelena disinigrates her, and glamours herself to look like Marian, so she can get back to the future with Emma and Hook. Secondly, Robin does not know that Regina had captured Marian and was going to kill her. He thought Marian was lost earlier than that, and that it was his fault. We have yet to see what he is talking about specifically, but I'm sure a flashback in a future episode can clear that up. So I'm not sure what conversation Robin and Regina would even have about Marian.