Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151023123622/@comment-25926288-20151027180639

CTrent29 wrote: It's been a mixed bag for me. Some aspects of Season 5 is very interesting, especially the Camelot arc. But I get this feeling that Kitsis and Horowitz are slowly distancing themselves from complex storytelling and ambiguous characterizations. Their writing seemed to be slowly growing more one-dimensional and I find that sad. This penchant for using words like "light" and "dark" to describe moral compass is an obvious example. Lol, in my opinion they've been running away from complex storytelling since season 3b. Wicked vs Evil. Weird and incorrect usages of Potential, and what potential for Darkness means.

The worst is that the wording is passable for black and white fairytales, but the one dimensional characters aren't. Or rather the characters within the show treat each other like plot devices.

Belle is a prop or just spouting exposition. Rumple is spouting exposition and character development. Robin's not really doing much. Zelena's not doing much. Snow and David became relevant and are slightly sidelined. Regina isn't doing much. She's talking but sometimes they just have her speak in one-liners. I look back and Regina wasn't that snarky in season 1 and only snarky sometimes in season 2. Now she's always snarky. Hook is woobified, but that's something. Emma is facing Darkness, that's not her own.