Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160211104431

Now I wanted to tackle characters on a separate post.

Emma: Emma is slowly becoming a parody of herself and I'd agree, minus season 5a. Yeah, I say 5a is typical Emma, just take away her family part. So, it's more like Emma is losing parts of her, rather than having lost herself, but that happens after the tipping point.

For everyone else, some of their character development was done and now they sort of loop or stay incredibly stagnant. What did Snow and David have to learn? Absolutely nothing, so they had to make up something. What did Regina learn since 3b? Not really much, she sort had learned about her standing in her own way of happiness in 3b. Rumple could have ended in 4x01, because that way 3b would have sort of a happy ending, whereas 3a ended on a bittersweet note and sort of wasn't hopeful at all. And Henry and Belle don't grow at all, but Henry was better used in the latter seasons, minus one, because the other times he was an nnoying brat.