Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20151225192609/@comment-26159109-20151226035344

CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote:

2. The mysterious hat, which would eventualy lead to the Sorcerer, which would eventualy lead to nothing. This isn't really true though, the Sorcerer is Merlin, and is the thing that ties all of 4 to 5A and the Camelot arc. If anything, this should be the one thing you should be happy about, because it shows quite a bit of forethought by the writers, including it in 401, and not having the payout of Merlin being until 5A. I already did a post about it. They never explained how anything we saw in season 4 is connected to what we got in 5A and it even contradicts it. Why some of Merlin's things like the hat, the door, the empty books moved to Storybrooke in the SECOND curse while in 5A we learn that Merlin was a tree the whole time and that all his stuff were in a tower in Camelot, which wasn't affected by the curse. They did a good  job building a mysterious character and they blew it with his revelation. This is what I'm talking about when I say Lazy because they never bothered themselves to sit down and connect everything, they just wrote stuff as they went. We need something to motivate Rumple to be evil again, Disney item preferable - a hat, we need to get rid of Frozen characters - a door, we need to have Emma tether the darkness to herself - a backstory of how Merlin fought  The Darkness  and tether it to a human soul, we need a cool exposition scene - Merlins warns Emma, we need the heroes to have some obstacle - Merlin stuck in a tree, we need Merlin's backstory to parrallel Hook and Emma's love story - a completely different backstory about him tethering  The Dark One  to a dagger. They didn't think about it in advanced and map everything and said this piece is going to be revealed in x and that piece will be revealed in Y, they pretty much got to a point where they think the fans either don't care(by what fans twitting them I can understand why) or that the fans would do the job of connecting everything by themselves and I don't like being treated that way by the writers of a show that I really got invested in. I know they can do better because they already did it with Baelfire.