Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170417005933/@comment-25926288-20170417111654

Farerb wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

Edzz wrote: Isn't interesting how Andrew Chambliss claims to be the timeline master and yet retcons the most?

Absoloutely hated this digusting retconny episode. A shame really, they could've done so much with a Snow/Charming centric To be fair, the writer writes the episode, not makes up the story. The whole group of writers does that.

Second, as I apparently have to do each episode like I'm a super-defensive person (lol) that retcon != discontinuity. There are like two types of retcon: the unnecessary and the bad; much of the retcons we see are the unnecessary. But this one is a bad one. It devalues the entire premise of the first season, the fact that Emma was the only one who could break the Dark Curse and Snow and Charming's reunion at the end of the first season. I would say it walks the line. They made sure the flower was a single one and that it could only be so effective. I don't think it did any real damage to the premise of the first season much. Is it unnecessary, yes. Does it retread everything we knew about Snow and David, yes. But there was no real harm to any character or continuity. It was contrived and untra-convenient and completely unneeded, but meh, anything beats Evil Bae and the massive Swan Song retcon that was paraded around as if we had memory loss.