Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-27138802-20151102114727

Thank you guys so much for bringing up how Merlin meeting Emma in the theater is a plot hole when he is stuck in the tree. I know the show will continuously use "because magic" as an answer, but Emma was in a world with no magic. I swear each episode of OUAT just brings another retcon. They have a stunning ability to introduce new information that contradicts previous episodes every....single....time.

But anyway, I just hate how Belle is always stuck with the guest star that will be gone after the 11/12 episode. She should be more integrated in the main group more than she is. Hell, she is a through and through hero that saved them countless times, and why more useful than the Hoos will ever be. It is a darn shame how they treat her. But given that the writers originally didn't even want Belle to live past season 1, her character has largely been used as a prop for Rumple, Hook, Regina, and the "heroes".