Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-61573-20160628131754

I know this is filed in spoilers, but please don't give too much of the plot away, as I'm only up to episode 4 of Season 5.

I've only seen two episodes so far, The Dark Swan and The Broken Kingdom. The first one seemed fairly standard to me, but then the second one left me a fair bit confused.

Most of that episode was dedicated to a flashback to Camelot, with Storybrooke being quite minimised. Normally it is the other way around, it's mostly Storybrooke with occasional flashbacks.

And then we have the limited nature of Merida's appearance. I was expecting to see her for at least half the episode, instead, she has one brief appearance in the Camelot prison and a short scene at the end of the episode.

Seeing as the established formula has been turned around and shaken up, I am wondering if they did some kind of change to the format of the show.

Can anyone confirm this? Or was this change for one episode only? 