Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-1916997-20160924063434

JennaMae wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: You guys can say they are unimportant all you want, but compared to a lot of the other secondary characters, they have actually been given quite a bit of importance. The fact that they even left open plot threads with them is important in and of itself. Compare that to someone like Hansel and Gretel or Anton, where they made sure to tell us everything significant about the characters in both flashback and present day. Also, the fact that Mal was introduced in 102, and alluded to her drama with Sleeping Beauty (who we now know is Briar Rose), but the fact that we have still not seen this play out is extremely significant. I don't know why yet, but I'm sure Adam and Eddy didn't plant that seed in the episode right after the Pilot, if they didn't intent to do something with it later. What I'm saying is that if they do plan on bringing Mal back this season, they should have her focus be on showing us what happened with Briar Rose. I'd be disappointed if she was just there on the side to witness Lily finding her father or something. Mal > Lily, and I feel like whenever A&E are asked about this, people are focusing on the "finding her father" part which means that we would still have the untold backstory of Maleficent and Aurora's family. Yeah, I don't think they would get Kristen back (who would be the harder actress to get back as opposted to Agnes), just so Kristen can pat Lily on the back and tell her she's happy she found her father. If Mal and Lily are back, I'd expect for the backstory to be Mal and Briar Rose, or at least Mal and something.