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Taking Disnecy icnonography and small references aren't bad at all which is why I did not mention them. There's a difference between that and direct Disney insertion.

As always, the storytelling is the more important part and it had "lost potential" as it always does. Frozen could have connected more to Snow and Will, but instead they simply inserted it into the story and in weird ways. If noone notices, season 4a was one of the campiest seasons of Once.

Hades was set-up sufficently and the acting was great. He just went nowhere fast and they seemed to just not care about his character whatsoever. First time, the main villain of the arc doesn't get a backstory and it was terrible. He suffered with poor written villain syndrome like season 4b's Rumple (who just happened to stumble on coincedence after coincedence and did not make much sense). I only dicuss the blue flaming hair because that's the only Disnsy part about Hades, really. Let's not get to 5A's set up for the Underworld as they mentioned UW in like every other episode that it was Rumple's "When the stars align, cleave, cleave, cleave" from 4a and Rumple's dark, darkness, Dahkness (aka Ansem) moments in 4b.