Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25733960-20161205025332/@comment-25926288-20161212182040

I agree with most of the thoughts presented. The only thing I struggle with is how any of this invoves the Black Fairy or even Gideon for that matter.

It's weird. Usually the villain is all over the heros, but so far it seems like he's more engaged in Rumple's story with a dash of sparring with Emma. Maybe Black Fairy won't be the active Big Bad of the arc and maybe we'll see a small arc of villainy like we saw with Hyde.

6x11 being about Emma with her brief moment with destiny, followed by random filler about David finding his father, followed by Rumple's terrible habits and patterns and his relationship with his son, with Regina finally letting go of Robin to catch up the rear (6x14). Then 6x15 will likely be about Agrabah's woes, perhaps intersecting with the Dark Fairy (which stops Aladdin and Jasmine's story from being so irrelevant as it has been). 6x16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22......I don't know.

If I exclude 21 and 22 on being a side-story double finale, then I'm thinking that Zelena will have an episode, the Black Fairy will have one or two, the others still unknown. 6x20 is likely the finale of the Evil Queen, so that the last two episodes can be about Black Fairy or side story. I don't see the EQ having much left because she really has won twice and lost it all.

It's an intriguing setup to see what will transpire. Snow and Regina don't need a centric, but I guess they could (even though we really don't need to see the endless feud). Hook doesn't seem to warrant one. Belle's story is pretty fully told at this point. So, we'll probably get all four...