Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20140228031503/@comment-5106672-20140301203439

CoolDudeAl wrote: I think alot of you forget flashbacks can take us back to any not present time. Therefore, I feel saying "we didn't get enough backstory on so and so" is premature, especially if said character (like Tinkerbell or Ariel) are known to be appearing in the second half of the season. Look at it this way, we just got Snow and Charming's honeymoon a few episodes ago, and that's clearly something we knew happened since the first episode of season one. So as far as that critique, I don't really get it. We have plenty of time for more of their backstories later. Now, as far as the critiques on what we saw (or didn't see) of present day Neverland, I can see all those points, and quite a few of them are decent. Of course as good as a critque can be, it can't change what has happened so lets all look forward to 3B, and hope things are handled more to our liking. As far as I've seen, though, the flashbacks are always somehow relevant to the current arc. You mentioned the Charming's honeymoon: as much as I found it superfluous, it served to mirror how Snow first and Emma then felt like they could never get a day off from bad things happening around them. So, unless there's some connection between the next arc and what brought to the Neverland one, I don't see how the writers can come back to that, and some key points will probably remain unexplained. :/