Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-33386384-20180525212302/@comment-34657163-20180525222533

A dedicated final thoughts thread...yay! I hope the criticism doesn't end up stuck blabbering about either:

A. "tHIS sEAson ShoULDn't EvEN exIST"

B. "the timeline!" (not that it isn't a problem, just that I think it's discussed enough).

Anyways, here I go (note: I already said most of my problems in How Season Seven Can Be Improved):

I didn't like most of the costumes. Only Ivy, Kelly, and Margot's stood out to me positively. I wish we saw Weaver without those (hideous—sorry!) jackets. Would have loved if he ran around just with dress shirts instead (I think he even wore them...but we couldn't see them because of the jackets!). And what if he wore sunglasses too!? Meanwhile, Rogers seemed like he only had one outfit. And what if they made a similar jacket to the original Hook one (for FTL/NFTL), but had a different colour? For our lovely princesses, I wish they used the blue and green more often for their clothing (I thought the pale blue jacket thing on Jacinda was cool in 720). And Roni always had a scarf on, and it kinda bothered me (I didn't like her tees either). I wish they gave Lucy a signature outfit similar to how Henry had that blue jacket and scarf.

I didn't like how little they used the villainous themes this season. Ivy/Drizella got her's used the most, which is acceptable, but Victoria/Tremaine had her's used like twice? Meanwhile, Eloise/Gothel had it used once?!? It's a shame because they were cool themes too. Also, did Samdi/Facilier even have a theme?

I felt that the witch hunter and coven stories could have been balanced/intertwined more (I expected it was but then candy killer Nick took the spotlight). Nitpick: candy killer sounds plain silly to me.

I didn't like that they didn't follow S1's Snow White story formula. They had about three episodes this season (701, 703, & 708) which could have actually shown her story but nooooo, we got "Cinderella is an Edgy Attempted Murderer Because", "The Garden Without Growing Plots", and "Wait, did something happen this episode?" Using at least two of them (in which I'd be willing to forgive 701), to show the actual story would have developed Drizella, Lady Tremaine, and Ella infinitely better. I wanted to see Rapunzel's transformation into Lady Tremaine, Drizella trying to win her mother's love while coping with her lost step-mother, and how Ella was initially treated by Rapunzel. They gave themselves interesting things to work with, but then didn't show it.

The price of the Dark Curse, blood magic, and time travel retcon (although combined witch power was implied long ago) felt very lame and cop-out like. The coven ended up glorified macguffins tbh (although, I will give kudos to this season for having very few MacGuffins overall, and generally being used well too).

Lastly, the curse was fairly weak to me lol. The setting definiteley needed something to be amped up (personally I'd have them amp up the "town's" sketchiness totally increased). Only Kelly, Margot, Sabine 712 and on, and sometimes Tilley's cursed personas really felt cursed to me (Kelly's "it wasn't really a curse for me" was very refreshing). Roger's cursed persona felt extremely dull; I'm not even sure if Roni and Weaver had cursed personalities at all. And half the people were like awake?! And there were like barely any repercussions for that!? Sorry Regina, but I already watched you cope with being close to Henry, oops!