Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180329215610

A lot of things for a "soft-reboot" really weren't there. There was little to no explanation and the heart didn't really feel there either. So I'll just list off a bunch off things...

-The evil step-mother wants to do what now? Separate a bunch of fairy tale characters by buying up a ton of land??? ... In general, Belfry didn't have the charisma while being evil that Gold or Regina did (at least at the start, her character felt defined by episode nine).

-How long have they been cursed exactly? To my memory, we didn't get that info on screen.

-So...besides being separated...who's truly suffering? I mean, the original Storybrooke curse had everyone cursed repeating the same lives each day, with some characters with their own very specific punishments. I mean, being able to leave the town alone is enough to let at least their cursed identities be happy.

-What did Henry going to the Heights actually do? It wasn't like he was the saviour like Emma was.

-Henry was just...cursed into some other city?

-How did an urban city, that is open to the rest of the world, just appear? With Storybrooke, we see that it's in a forest and makes a lot more sense for no one to have been in the area (of course, we learn that there were two people in the area later on)

-Unsubtle references to say the least...

(things that don't make sense with the information we later get...)

-Why would Drizella give Rumple of all people power (as a detective)?

-Tiana and Ella get to live an acceptable life together because ?

(flashback)

-Cinderella assualts Henry and steals his bike because ? It's not like how Snow needed money, or how Charming wanted his ring back. She literally wanted revenge and could have just walked or rode the horse or something (granted, I don't quite remember the horse).

-Cinderella goes through the effort of getting to a ball, all to assasinate a prince? And her fairy godmother helped her with this?

-How do you get your wings cut off as a fairy? Who sleeps in a madwoman's house which surely the fairy should have recognized...

...that's like all I recall from the flashback but it felt like nothing in general happened (I mean stuff happened, but nothing that made me care).

Some of these could be considered nitpicks and what not, but it severely lacks the charm and planning that the original show started with (which was what I assumed they wanted to base the soft-reboot off of? not that it would have been the exact same, but like followed a similar formula but with more awake characters which is admitittedly an interesting contrast).  