Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151120143743/@comment-26159109-20151207093450

Season 5A had a lot of potential but it just didn’t make any sense. Remember how season 3B and 4B contradicted things that were established in previous seasons? Well at least they didn’t contradict anything from their own storyline, something that 5A excels at. Let’s begin with the episodes:

So I’m going to begin with the pointless episodes, the ones that didn’t move the plot anywhere or didn’t have any sorts of character development. These episodes basically can be skipped and the overall plot won’t change. These episodes are:

502 - The Price:

This episode was an attempt to develop Regina’s character as the “new” savior of Storybrooke. That didn’t work for two reasons: Another problem I have with this episode is that we find out Percival is one of Regina’s victims but instead of developing it and letting her face the consequences of what she had done as the Evil Queen, they kill the guy. Lost potential.
 * 1)  We already saw Regina saves the town 9 times so it’s a little ridiculous to see everyone doubt Regina after everything she has done. Then she saves Robin, only Robin, from the fury and that what makes everyone believe that she is able to protect them? Pan’s curse and Zelena are probably child’s play but the fury is a big threat. This was basically a retcon to Regina’s character and the writers pretty much rely on the viewers to have short memory. Well not everyone have a short memory. We all remember season 3.
 * 2)  It didn’t serve anything later when the plot progressed. It is a forgotten plot point. They established that Regina is now the savior as if she wasn’t already in 3B and didn’t do anything with that. They retconned a character development for nothing.

503 - Siege Perilous:

This episode had David and Arthur search for a mcGuffin in Camelot flashback as well as present day Storybrooke. It introduces the stupid mushroom that wasn’t really necessary (the spell could have been enacted without a stupid macGuffin). My problem with the mushroom is that it really put emphasis on the show’s use of unnecessary items just to have plot. Something that has been done since the end of season 2, back then it was forgivable since the story was still about the characters. Now it is just about a mushroom. Also there was an unnecessary bromance between Arthur and David.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">504 - The Broken Kingdom:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">This episode was the worst episode of the season. Why? Because it gave us the unnecessary backstory of the rushed love triangle of King Arthur-Queen Guinevere-Sir Lancelot. Nobody cares about these characters and everyone are tired about the “We’re so perfect” crap of Snow White and Prince Charming. Another macGuffin in the form of send that let King Arthur roofy his wife and create another pointless plot point that led to nowhere when he used it on Snow and David.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">506 - The Bear and the Bow:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I get that Belle appeared a lot in this episode. It still doesn’t make the episode about her. The backstory was about Merida (that could have been told without Belle) and the present day was about Rumple becoming a hero when he has to protect his plot device aka Belle from Merida. Sorry, you can claim all you want that this was a Belle centric, the fact remains that this was a Merida\Rumple centric disguised as a Belle episode.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">509 - The Bear King:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">This episode did nothing for the plot, assassinate Ruby’s character and can be skipped altogether, actually it should be skipped since it really shouldn’t be placed between 508 and 510.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">It’s time for the important episodes. The ones that were about the main plot of the season.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">These ones (the first three) are episodes I actually liked:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">501 - The Dark Swan:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">It had so much build up and so much promise that unfortunately led to nowhere.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">505 - Dreamcatchers:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The best episode of the season. It had everything the series should do. Emma-Henry’s relationship, Emma-Regina rivalry. It had Characters talking about what they feel instead of chasing after a stupid mushroom (even though it had them going after a tear). My only problem with this episode was that they didn’t explain why Emma all of a sudden started to use magic when they made it so important that she shouldn’t do it previously but overall It’s a shame that we see less episodes like this one and more episodes like 503.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">507 - Nimue:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The good things about this episode are: <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The bad things about this episodes are:
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> It introduced us the origins of the dark one and the amazing character of Nimue that should have been the most prominent character of this arc along with Merlin, alas the Camelot characters got so much unnecessary attention.
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> It showed us Emma actually battled the darkness inside her.
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> It contradicted what the apprentice said about Merlin battling the darkness and tethered it to a human soul.
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> Regina is the most intelligent character on the show and they really made her seem stupid just for plot convenience. She knows better than to trust Zelena and she might not be able to hurt her, but nothing should have prevented her from attacking Arthur.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The next episodes are the ones that made no sense and made this entire arc seem rewritten:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">508 - Birth:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I don’t get what made them shift Emma’s storyline to Hook. It really didn’t make any sense. Hook as a character didn’t make sense in this arc (more on that later) and it is just a shame, I hate when they drop any logic just to have shock value.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Zelena’s pregnancy acceleration was ridiculous as well.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">510 - Broken Heart:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Same thing as Birth. These episodes are bad mainly because how illogical Hook’s development went this season.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">511 - Swan Song:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Not only was it the worst episode of the season, but it was the worst episode of the entire series. Characters were behaving OOC. a scene directly copied from Buffy and an underwhelming climax. Hook sacrificed himself to destroy the darkness, but not really. “There is always a loophole” said by Rumple, who tricked everyone (again) and became the dark one (again) making this Hook’s sacrifice and THIS WHOLE FREAKING ARC pointless!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Now, let’s talk about characters, shall we:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Main Characters:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Emma Swan:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Remember Emma from seasons 1-3 when the most important thing for her was the well being of her son? Remember when she told both Neal and Hook in 3A that Henry is the only guy she wants to take care of? Remember all the meaningful conversations she had with Snow and David about the importance of family. Well that Emma is gone. She has let darkness control her and change her so now all she cares about is a guy. She actually turn him into the worst creature in the world, endangering everyone she supposedly still loves only to save his life, even though he tells her not to. This arc could’ve been about all of Emma’s relationship. It was briefly about her and her son, but nothing from her parents. Nothing, no confrontations, no conversations, nothing. All Hook.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Regina Mills:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I already stated what I thought about retconning her character development that lasted for only one episode. Other than that nothing special happened with her.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Snow White:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Nothing special happened with her which is a shame since her daughter became the dark one.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">David:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Had a pointless bromance with a pointless character and nothing more. Same with Snow, too bad he didn’t have more scenes with Emma.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Rumplestiltskin:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Suffered from the same treatment as Regina, however in his case it began last season. Anyway, Rumple saved them a lot of times. He sacrificed his life for them, but I guess that time doesn’t count because of plot convenience. Merida is in it so we need to have the word ‘brave’ being said every 20 minutes. At the end, he reverted back to being the dark one, learning nothing from his past mistakes, that is a really bad character development.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Hook:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The most frustrating character. I’ll admit that I was never a fan of him and that he shouldn’t have stayed after 3A, I mean Emma had better love interests than him, but popularity won. Now even though I am not a fan of his character, I never had a problem with him until this arc, mostly because he didn’t make sense. I actually think their initial plan was not to make him the dark one, if it was then it was poorly executed. While in Storybrooke, he never showed any signs of being the dark one, let alone any dark motivations. He cared about Emma and wanted to save her, to release her from the darkness and that is what bugs me the most: his dark intentions should not change because he lost his memories. His good intentions should not change because he suddenly remembers what happened to him. In addition, When Hook said that he was the villain in Rumple’s story, he was the dark one! He just didn’t remember that, than he gains his memories back and he wants revenge? Again? They treat it as if when he got his memories back, he turned into the dark one when it happened long before that. That’s just insulting to viewers’ intelligence. And how about the fact that he wants to bring doom to storybrooke just because he’s pissed at his girlfriend. Ridiculous.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Belle:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Plot device as always.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Zelena:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I really hate Zelena being shoved down our throats. For instance, the scene when Hook discovers he’s the dark one should really have been an intimate moment between Emma and him. But no, here’s Zelena to make a joke about everything. I just don’t see the point of having her back, do we really need another poor redemption arc? Seriously.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Robin Hood:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Just another extra. Funny how they don’t know what to do with him so they just have him in a scene stating the obvious.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Secondary Characters:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Ever since season 4, we get an ensemble of characters that take so much screen time.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">In season 4A we got the Frozen characters: Elsa, Anna, Ingrid, Kristoff and Hans. In that season it worked because for most of them (except Ingrid) we got their backstory in Frozen and the main plot of 4A was about them, so they didn’t feel pointless or irrelevant to the plot.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">In season 4B we got Maleficent, Cruella, Ursula, Isaac, August and Lily. Those characters, unlike the Frozen ones, got the OUAT’s spin, so they had to get their own backstory because there isn’t any movies that they can be relied upon. Those are a lot of characters to explore, plus we have the main characters to develop and the plot. It seriously suffered from all of these being thrown into our screens and it felt rushed.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Now, we get to season 5A and who did we get this time? Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, Nimue and Merida. Here is what I think about them:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Arthur:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">One of the things I really liked about the series is how they took simple fairytale characters and made them complex. The evil queen is not really evil, she is a person who had difficult life and had bad things happened to her. Here instead of getting a complex character, who has to take care of his kingdom, no matter what the price is, we got a fool who only cares about a stupid sword with no good reason.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Guinevere:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Another character they made simple instead of having a character that needs to choose between love and duty. Then her character simply became an extra.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Lancelot:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">So he was here only for the love triangle? I don’t understand why his character wasn’t used more? Why did we need Merida in present day Storybrooke? Why not use him instead? Also, if you do your own spin and your own adaptation on a character, you can’t just drop something like “hey lance, remember your mother the lady of the lake? Maybe she can help us” when it was never established on the show that his mother is the lady of the lake.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Merlin:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I don’t understand why they made him so shady but I guess it has to do with the vague rules of the universe of OUAT so they can do whatever the hell they want without dealing with the logistics. Sigh

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Nimue:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The only character I liked and it’s too bad she wasn’t in more episodes.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Merida:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">The most pointless character that took two episodes that could’ve been used to explain things better, to develop characters, to explore the mythos of the dark one. Such a waste, Lancelot could’ve replaced her in present day.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Overall, the characters got pointless as the season progressed until there was not even any resolution to those characters. I didn’t like them but they do at least deserve that.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Now, let’s talk about the stories that were adapted in season 5A. At first I thought we are getting Arthurian Legends, Swan Lake and Brave, but instead we got Twilight. Okay I’m being unfair, we did get some poorly adapted synopsis of Arthurian Legends and some allusions to Swan Lake, but the main stories were Twilight and Brave.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Let’s pretend that we did got Arthurian Legends, here is the stories we got:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Arthurian Legends:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">It feels like the writers just didn’t bother to explore the legends before writing this season. It feels like they were watching the Disney movie, read a wikipedia synopsis of the legends and that’s it because all we got were:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Sword - check.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Love triangle - check.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">I always knew that something as complex as Arthurian Legends should not be on the show since I knew they could not grasp the legends, what they mean and their themes, they just simplified everything and that is not how OUAT used to be in the early seasons.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Brave:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">They completely missed the point of Brave. It was not just about a girl who turns her mother into a bear. It was about family dynamic, about how family can each other for granted sometimes and that it is needed to understand to other’s point of view and perspective. It was a story about a conflict between a mother and a daughter that learn to overcome their communication issues, but in OUAT’s version it’s about a girl who shoots arrows and fight dudes. It’s such a shame because the theme of the movie is a theme we often saw on the show. I’m one of those who did like Frozen season, even though I still think Frozen had no business being on the show, and I can say that Brave was completely pointless.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;">Twilight:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">This was the real story which was adapted in the season. Two people in a destructive relationship, willing to endanger everyone for the sake of their love. Emma became a shell, nothing mattered to her anymore except from Hook. She was willing to sacrifice her own son’s happiness in order to defeat the darkness, but god forbid she will let go of Her boyfriend to save everyone.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">In conclusion, season 5A was the worst season of Once Upon a Time, mainly because it feels rewritten, the end doesn’t fit with the beginning, plot points were immediately dropped, main characters were sidelined in favor of a group of new characters (like 4A but in this case the new characters were uninteresting) who were dropped for a sick love story.

<span style="font-size:24.7285px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;">Let’s just hope 5B will be better, but unfortunately I doubt it. Once Upon a time is stuck in the same formula and I don’t see it being changed anytime soon.