Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160418005754/@comment-27257290-20160420010207

Eskaver wrote: To be fair, the first Oz arc had a suprising small amount of Oz stuff actually in it. It was literally the 4 witches (NESW), the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, the silver slippers, the Emerald City, the yellow brick road, and flying monkeys. That's kind of lacking for an Oz arc. Not really, but I have the feeling that the writers are showing that they could have made 3b significantly better if we somehow mashup 3b and 5b, mostly flashbacks.

Well as I've complained in previous discussion boards, this series doesn't even feel Greek anymore. I'm definitely biased because I love Greek mythology and don't really care about the Wizard of Oz. But I still find it unfair to base a story arc on Greek mythology, slip in a connection to Oz in the form of twu luv and then turn it into a second attempt at 3B. I love these connections between stories I do, but not if they cause the whole plot to digress. I think I enjoyed this episode more because I'm beginning to make my peace with the fact that this isn't an Underworld arc, it's just about Once's own confused concept of death and some breaktime for the characters to revamp themselves before they get back to actually doing stuff.

But I'm still disappointed. For a show that has made many references to classic myths and is, by very long extension, rooted mostly in Greek myth, I just feel like their Greek mythology arc could have been so much more.