Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20170502222723

First (official) post on the R&R. While I like constructive criticism more than anything, this is better suited here that the Gen Board where the focal point is theory/speculation.

I focus a little too much on mythos, magic and worldbuilding but I think anyone with a close eye (or perhaps rewatch/binge-watch) should see something I have grown to dislike very much: plot drift.

Plot Drift: The event where the plot deviates for its initial point. With Once, I sometimes called it the narrative shift, where Once generally hits mid-arc and it shifts from there. Not just the race to the finish or the slow bog of intermediary filler, but the plot drifts. A better encompassing term would be....

Continuity Drift: See: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityDrift

I'll stick to the current season 6B, we have Black. I love Jaime Murray's portrayal. Often I feel the actors and actresses outdo what they are given. In 6x19 we have Rumple literally ask why Fiona was actively going over and beyond hurting him. They had her given a very, very bad cover-up as if that settles it. Black was so spiteful and antagonistic to her son, you wouldn't doubt she actively hated him. Black literally has no reason to steal Gideon, beyond getting free. But also, she had to shift in that episode.

Previously on Once, Fiona came for no reason beyond fighting the Final Battle. Now that we know that she knows that she would die on the Final Battle, it makes no sense she would want that, especially given she "now" wants a family.

It's clear that the writers/ A&E didn't spread the news or do a good job making the plot homogenous or in synergy with each other. Like.....

6x16: Black is trapped, collecting lots of Black fairy Dust for her spell.

6x18: Black weaponizes fairy crystals. (Why would she have to do that when she has a realm full of mined black fairy dust?) Side-note: Regina wanted them not to face her alone.

6x19: Black goes after Blue (Why now?) and has a secret she doesn't really care much about as it did no harm at all. How do I know? Because she actively shares it with Rumple. Regina also forgets last episode since she faces Fiona, one on one, after her more powerful sister did nothing to Fiona and after she told everyone to not do the very thing she's doing.

It's apparent in 5A (Ask yourself, "Why would SecretlyGoodEmma actively and specifically order Belle's death with no display of conflict?) and 5B ( "What did Hades want? Them to stay? Leave? Die? Spread Hope? Lose Hope?).

Any more you noticed or otherwise, feel free to vent your frustrations with the plot/continuity drift. Noted in some of my "objective" grade reports, sometimes you can really tell different people wrote each episode, and some al you can see are the gears turning under a cheap veil of "entertainment". 