Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180311191124

The season isn't done yet at all, but I thought it'd be fun to discuss how the season could have been better/or can get better. Personally, I think there was a definite improvement with Secret Garden and a Taste of the Heights. One Little Tear was fairly good too, although it introduced quite a few age problems in continuity, and other subplots like Cecelia and Rapunzel becoming Tremaine... The Eighth Witch was okay I guess, but it had pacing issues-at least it made it clear where the season was headed.

I feel that instead of the Garden of Forking Paths, and Pretty in Blue, we could have gotten proper flashbacks showing Ella's actual story instead of whatever those episodes were. It could cover a lot more, especially considering how most of the stuff that happened in those flashbacks were insignificant. We could have had a flashsback along the lines of Ella being a maid because she lives while Ana is half-dead, subtle hints at Drizella's neglect, etc.

Alice's conception definitely could have been written a million times better. No need for some glamour spells. Hell, they could have even kept the one night stand and the baby could have just been a bonus for Gothel (sounds evil, I know) so she gets to keep more of her special petals.

Greenbacks was too much of a filler, and they could have established more of Tiana's backstory. I'm not sure whatever happened to having a nice time jump like Skin Deep (which is what made me happy about One Little Tear-although that episode could have used a brief Gothel and Rapunzel in the tower interaction). Drizella's magic learning thing could have benefited from it too, rather than being able to make killer vines out of a potted plant in the span of one day ?????

Lucy deserves better writing than what she got. I think Alison is quite convincing, but the writers gave her really forced lines that felt pretty unnatural. "Your family needs you!" "Evil very bad step mother is pushing out the fairy tale characters!"

Thoughts? There's obviously other things like the total retcon of the dark curse, Hyperion Heights just poofing out of nowhere without any kind of cloaking spell, etc. 