Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4467206-20141030145027/@comment-4975807-20141031044544

I like the show inclusion of Frozen, and the writers' interpretation of it. I think they did a good job explaining who the Frozen characters are so even for people who haven't seen the Disney film and only watch OUAT, they can understand who everyone is and their histories with each other. The addition of the Snow Queen was a surprise to me, and definitely was believable to me by having her to a relation of Elsa as an extension ofexplaining how Elsa, having non-magical parents, could inherit magic (assuming that magic can be passed down from parent to child by genetics alone).

I enjoy seeing Will on the show as a kind of side story and adding as a subplot of "What is going on with him?" lol. I can, however, understand why people perceive him to be distracting. I am very curious about the mystery of what's in that sack he was digging up and how/why he is not with Anastasia. He definitely became a quick favorite character for me when I was watching the Wonderland episodes while it was still actively airing on television, so seeing him included on the main show makes me even more happier.

Anna's adventures in the EF are fun too watch as well. I loved the parallel between her and David. It's always exciting to see new characters be introduced on the show, but I have to say there was something about Bo Peep's character that just wasn't very satisfying. The actress did a good job of coming across as severely intimidating and I could believe her to be a major baddie/villain if she was in more than one episode, though I felt the execution of her character's introduction was a bit poor. I mean, she's a warlord, but we know nothing about how or why she gained so much power. I just thought it was majorly confusing that she had that title but it wasn't known where she came from. They also left it as a cliffhanger of when David defeated Bo Peep and tied her to the post and rescued Anna, but what was stopping Bo Peep from continuing to harrass David and Ruth? For sure, she still had the shepherd's crook after that battle because her counterpart still possessed it in SB.

Another thing I didn't like was the whole "let's get the author to rewrite my story so I get a happy ending" for Regina. -_- I just find the idea of her relying on a book to decide her future to be all wrong. In this sense, Regina reminds me of Zelena when she believed in that Oz prophecy was foretelling herself as the big bad that Dorothy would defeat in order to become the Witch of the West. They both put their trust in some mystical/magic thing to determine their futures. What if Zelena ignored the prophecy? What if Zelena just thought the prophecy was reinforcing the fact Dorothy was the big bad and she had to defeat Dorothy to protect Oz? Just like with Rumplestiltskin and the seer's prophecy, he believed in a prophecy based on perception alone. As for Regina, I am just iffy that she believes her future can only be determined by a book, and that this is the only way she can find happiness.

Mary Margaret .... her character is really slowing down for me. Her constant need to stay by baby Neal is starting to irk me, to be honest. I sighed in the last episode when she literally couldn't stay away from her baby for a few hours and have some quality time with her husband. I understand, on some level, she is being a responsible mother by wanting to make sure the babysitter (Belle) can contact them if something happens to Neal, but seriously. Where is the badass Snow White we all know is lurking somewhere inside her? She can be a mother, of course, because she's been a mother to Emma and now she's a mother to Neal, but I feel she's falling into a slump and losing her edge as a character.