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Depends on how you view it. However, the show attempts to use it to convey the moral of the episode and add a little fantasy to a bleaker present.

I love them as I tend to always like them even if the present is iffy because it builds their complex world structure....at times. I mean, Rumple and the EQ are usually the highlight even if Regina is being grumpy or Mr. Gold is being dryly callous.

Redundant is if it just shows the same thing over and over again. So, having another flashback during the ar would be somewhat redundant, but we've only seen two and it was a major deal and it would probably add some details we wondered in between. Plus it answers weird questions.