Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26109288-20151219143455/@comment-26159109-20151220154300

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Nothing will feel like the series finale, until we get the actual series finale. Oh, really.... have you forgotten about episode 3.11, Going Home? Going Home could have worked as a series finale, without the final scene. But it would have been a very sad series finale for a show about hope. The final scene was pointless. They should have ended it after Emma and Henry left.

In a lot of ways Going Home is a series finale, when the series returned in March 2014, it was just not the same anymore.

"Happy Endings are not always what we thought they were, Snow White said it. I liked the bitter sweet feeling Going Home had, and how fairytales returned to be just that afterwards. I would have hated the series ending at Going Home, because lots of questions would have been unanswered, and because it would have been a really sad ending. Emma and Henry just forgetting everyone and having false memories put in, is not very fairytale like at all. And the show was exactly the same when it came back. No, actually it was better, because Oz got introduced. XD What questions? They didn't leave anything open.

3B was not that good, it is the most overrated season of OUAT. The story of Mal and Briar Rose. The Black Fairy. Lots of back story of the main characters. The Dark One history. And that's just off the top of my head. Those not what I meant, I meant open plot threads like " what happened to Will, Who' Lily's father, Camelot characters...". At that point,  Maleficent only appeared in 2 episodes and her backstory was irrelevant, same with the Black Fairy, which is a character that was mentioned once - both were not explained later in the series and probably never will. Dark One's origin was not that relevant as well and I would rather it not being explained than what they did in 5A, which is filled with contradictions.

The main characters backstory was done, the only backstories we got were the retcon of Snow White and Charming's baby snatching and other stuff that has more to do with new characters than with the main characters (Charming - Anna, Belle - Anna, Regina - Zelena, Maleficent, Hook - Ursula) and none of them added anything new about the characters. Rumple didn't have any backstory since 308 cause god forbids the viewers would remember he was a decent character.

Starting from 3B, the characters became templates for the plot.