Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150314072422/@comment-1916997-20150315050921

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: To most fans (to which I can agree), the series was season one pilot to season 3a finale. The plot was most cohesive and the finale was a great ending with the desire for so much more left in the viewers' head. Then 3b-present is disconnected, like a reboot/sequel which is mostly worse than its original. I like Regina and even Zelena, but that plot was like a reboot to the 3a finale since there was a conclusive end. Like they say, the show must go on! Then time-travel adventures and Disney-ratings grab..ahem Frozen (which I liked how decent they did) ahoy! Now this tries to connect back to season one, but it's become like a parody of it's former self. Or at least it cycles 2 and 3a over in 3b and 4a and now 4b. I think that Cora should have stayed till 2x22. Greg and Tamara should have been the Little Bads in season 3 leading to Pan - the Big Bad later that season, and ending season 3 with "Going Home" with removing that stupid "cliffhanger" at the end.

The arc with Zelena and the missing year should have been entire season 4. Maybe if it had been, we wouldn't have felt it was rushed. There is always a cliffhanger (Gold bringing magic to Storybrooke in Season 1, Main cast going to Neverland to save Henry in Season 2, Hook telling Emma her family is in trouble in 3A, Elsa coming out of the urn in 3B, Gold finding Ursula in New York in 4A), so changing the pacing of the show plot would not have removed a cliffhanger.