Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20150312220054/@comment-25926288-20150830000640

Yes, I agree with the others. Not for "fan" expectaqtion, but you can get a feeling when a storyline is dropped. They may cover it up decently, but it's not opaque, it's pretty transparent at times.

Dropped storylines are worth proclaiming about simply because instead of downplaying it or stretching it out, they give it an abrupt or quiet end.

Frozen is a good example of thie. Frozen was a decent arc with a great villain, but you can see dropped storylines and things that had to be adjusted. Marian is prompty Frozen off and Regina and Robin bounce back and forth. Emma discovers her pwers in Season 2, manifests them properly in season 3a, then learn to use it and regain control of it in season 3b. So, why randomly Emma loses control of her powers. You can scream "PARALELL!" but Elsa lost control due to a constant state of fear, while Emma got a little angry and sparks flying. That is just tacky parallelism. Anger isn't even Emma's thing. Emma's things is not letting people in, maybe some self-righeousness, or rejection which she obviously knew that she was accepted like years ago.

So, not only where plots messed up, but character development was halted, retread, and then proceeded. Hook had another secret to keep about a cursed body part, Regina is moping around about something on the verge of evil, Rumple is harking it up like a 1-D villain, Snow and the rest are highly irrelevant.

There is LOST Potential and then there's a mess. And Frozen created a mess, which then indirectly messed up season 4b.