Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161024005929/@comment-25926288-20161024151125

Agreed, HM, on most parts.

If we do look at the storylines, it did not move anything, compared to 505, in which it jumpstarted Act 2 of the DO arc. What Adam and Eddy did was introduce plot-macguffin with Al and Jazzy sort of on a subplot.

1. EQ manipulating to tear Snow's family apart is fine, but the main issue is that the heroes are holding the Idiot Ball. EQ was right that she doesn't have to do anything! She advanced Plot A (Emma), neglected Plot B (Untold Stories), and dabbled in Plot E (Zelena's woes) which is a shame because Zelena had a great arc last season and here she's doing nothing.

2. Not every plot has to be seen, but Rumple and Belle weren't even mentioned. Even Hyde had a passing mention which made it seem like weeks have passed and as if it were trivial.

3. As I said, not every plot needs to be seen, but it has been two episodes without any follow up. Snow saying "no secrets" was their way of saying "Remember David!" I guess they'll wait for the next episode for another hint.

4. Saviorology lacks explanation. Aladdin randomly went to a cave, suddenly had magic, saved the day once, now cleaved himself from that burden. I guess we won't be seeing Aladdin and Jazzy for a while with that brief summarization.

Broken magic is broken. I can wave away the poofing as CGI was used elsewhere, but the magic system is clealry poorly defined that they just insert powers as need be. Locator potion for like magic, for example. Macguffins just came without backstory, which was unlike the barrier spell that they recognized was the same as the one during the first curse. I go more into it on the Power ranking thread.

Other plot question that I see some casuals ask is "Why do the heroes always listen to these somehow Omniscient Villains?" Meta-knowledge is out of wack. So, far, Hyde and Jafar (EQ and Rumple, lesser) have suffered from this.