Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160123195431/@comment-26159109-20160123221502

Eskaver wrote: I'll rewatch it one day, but I would only say that 4a had strength, but it wasn't Once was. I'll try my best to be Hades' advocate and mix my personal opinion.

1. Early on they didn't get as much focus as Frozen and that's exemplified by the long-winded Anna's adventures Storyline. Some unfortunate events occured, but it seemed to slow the pace on many relevant stories and in some cases put somethings on freeze. Look at 4x01 and onwards and it feels if you look at it a retread or summary of Once for new viewers which we hardly really ever get. We had to get EQ in and show how sad her life is and why she hates Snow. We have Rumple to literally spill out his guts to a tombstone about what he's just done. And everything else is just sort of just there.

A. Emma is hardly the main character focus in much of the arcs  so 3b wasn't some novel idea of theirs.

B. Yeah a terrible storyline that could have been better. Robin is sad. Regina is sad. Marian is frozen. Robin gets drunk and goes to be sad with Regina. Pretty much happens twice and we never get any real connection between the two of them besides physical body pressing.

C. Which made 4x01 Grave scene complete exposition and pointless. Plus, they never explained anything concerning that. But I guess it's a plus.

D. Which is a copy from 3b.

E. Okay, I'll give you that.

F. Let's put some letters: EA + DA + RAH + Emma + BA + Ingr + Emma/ EA + EA + EA + EA + RB pretty much I see a lot of EAs and things coupled with A (EA being Esla and Anna and A being Anna). Might of mesed up at the end lol

2. Not really until the end. The Author stuffed was nonexistent in the middle at times and which is why Regina had to apologizze to Henry because they didn't actually spend significant amounts of time together. Butstill they were indeed mysteries.

3. Yep, totally agree. They finally accomplished what they wanted. Remeber that in 3a they wanted Hook to replace Snow in emotional scenes and they did. Regina fills in the MM friendship gap and for Emma there's no time for Snow in ironically the Frozen arc.

4. Irrational people don't think. Archie should have been with her and not embellishing Frozen propaganda. Literally that spell killed hundreds, if not thousands, but not a soul in SB, where they have guns and cars and stuff.

5. Disney insertion at its best. But Ingrid was fine. I'm just going to think you meant Anna. Ingrid wore just a variety of fancy dresses and she did have normal clothes scenes at least. Better than Merida, Elsa and Anna can say.

6. Lol 1. I said they got storylines this season, I never said they were good.

2. Actually I was surprised to realize that there was more Author stuff than I remembered, espacially in Smash the Mirror, where Robin and Will went to the library and found the mysterious page (which was never explained how it got there and who created it). I guess it was material that was added to the script after they turned the episode into two hours.

5. No, I ment Ingrid. Anna was barely one day at Storybrooke so it made sense why she didn't change clothes, while Ingrid had no business walking around in the middle of the forest or the street in a modern setting, while she was barefoot and wore a ball gown with decolletage. It is even weirder that she would do that after we saw that she has normal clothes, which I guess are much more comfortable.