Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20171107020655/@comment-6302057-20171117005930

On average we've had almost one Curse every season pre-reboot.

- Regina's was necessary as it was the show's whole premise.

- Pan's created an interesting dynamic by forcing Regina to send everyone home. It had the potential to set up a non-SB centric season. The open interpretation of "the think you love most" was interesting but not sure if I personally liked it.

- Snow's was necessary to bring everyone back to SB as portals were not an option. It would've been interesting to see them come back through other means if the portals thing hadn't been written in. An interesting deviation was that it was cast for more pure intentions instead of revenge.

- Hook's was lazily explained away through Nimue being part of him, allowing him/her to kill Merlin. Plus it was the easiest way to get everyone back to SB. Though Emma's separate memory wipe was an interesting concept. Most of S4 and S5 can almost be glossed over anyway as they had little lasting impact other than Robin's death and the Authors arc.

- Fiona's was the "original" Curse but had no lasting impact and was broken within two episodes. A real let-down for the supposed "ultimate" villain in the Final Battle.

Now post-reboot, Drizella's was necessary in the same way Regina's was, but this was the perfect opportunity to do something different and unexpected.