Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160123195431

I did a rewatch today of season 4A to see if I still like it and guess what I DON'T.

I'm just kidding, it's not as bad as seasons 3B, 4B and 5A, but it's not as good as I remember it, and I have some points about it:

1. I don't understand why everyone claims that the main characters got sidelined, just because Regina and Snow didn't have any flashbacks this season, doesn't mean they got sidelined, as far as the main characters go, we got:

A. Emma got to be a main character after 3B treated her as a mcguffin and a plot device rather than a character, and the lead character at that.

B. Regina and Robin's had the adultery storyline, and seeds about the Author storyline that revolves mainly around her.

C. Rumple's magical hat storyline.

D. Hook doing shady stuff and keeping the truth from Emma storyline.

E. Snow dealing with being a mayor and her fear of being seperated from her child.

F. David, Belle and Rumple got flashbacks episodes (by anyone who is in here those equals to "Centrics"). Belle and Rumple even got two episodes.

In my opinion, season 5A sidelined the main characters minus Hook more than this season did.

2. This season would have been much more enjoyable without the hat and author crap that didn't make any sense afterwards. In my first watch, before 4B and 5A, when you don't know what's to come, it is actually exciting - we have two mysteries! Both of them fell flat.

3. Emma has awkward cringe worthy dialogues with both Hook and Regina, they'll just do anything for fanservice.

4. The spell of shattered sight does not make any sense. Did Ingrid just wanted to have two "sisters" so they could help her dig graves for all the people in the town that she killed? Seriously, what did she try to achive with that spell?

5. It is ridiculous that Elsa and Ingrid just walk around for days in Halloween costumes.

6. I kind of regret buying season 4 DVD. 