Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20161013043134/@comment-24674051-20161017214050

Season 2 had really 3 main arcs. Snow and Emma in the EF, Cora in SB, and Greg and TAmara. Rumple in NYC was part of the middle arc.

Season 6 will have multiple shorter arcs like this. The LoUS will be the underlying foundation for all of hte stories this year. J&H was the first mini-arc spanning from last season's finale to "Strange Case", Aladdin and Jasmine will cover the next few episodes, probably concluding with "Wish you were here". And we know we are getting Robin for multiple episodes, and I imagine that that will be one of the first arcs after the winter break.

Eion Bailey will be back in the fall (sometime between 6x06 and 6x10), and I would put the chances pretty high that his appearance and the appearace of the Dragon are connected somehow.