Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20161031211322/@comment-25926288-20161031212804

I'll be the nostalgic dweeb and say:

1. Season 1. It was planned, had a novelty to it that the rest of the season fail to match. This season is essentially what the show is. How do I know? Adam and Eddy try to compare each future season to this. So, even they think it's the best. XD

2. Season 2. A mess, but it's essentially the "Disney Sequel" aka a sequel that's never as good as the original. Once shifted gears a little to an adventure-style fantasy drama. 2A was surperb, 2B was solid.

3. Season 3a. Neverland was iffy, but it was like the "Disney Seq---you get the point. It was character focused and had a beautiful wrap. In this season, the villains sort of floundered in their plans. (But wait until season 4b when it gets tossed out).

4. Season 3b. I really can't break order. Everything was okay. Questionable story decisions, but it tried to reflect season 1 and I think they did better than whatever "season 1" feel they try to do now.

So, I gave them a slight break with the 3 split arcs because it was there first, so I will not hold that against them, but they could have used a little more for Oz. If you skip from 3B to 5B then the Oz arc would have been a tad bit better.

5. Season 4A. Great spinoff, so where's my show? Would be lower due to that, but Ingrid was good and the rest sort of wasn't nearly as solid. Weird character choices.

6. Season 5B. Hades lacked focus, but the episodic dead person angle actually worked well. Not much to say, otherwise.

7. Season 5A. So much potential...wasted. Arthur and Merida seemed tacked on. Weird storry decsions that seemed to enter a tad too late....Dark Hook.

8. Season 4B. This was a fun season, but it was terrible. Rumple changed his plan every episode. Half the villains weren't even relevant. It tried to keep the cheesiness that 4A had, but Maleficent the Dragon Witch, Ursula the Sea Witch, and Cruella the Sociopathic Killer are not going to  play teenage games with the Murderous Tryant the Evil Queen.