Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5899967-20180513105127/@comment-25926288-20180513185312

I think it’s two parts fish...as in flops.

The major issue is mostly that it’s a midquel and thus we know where it ends.

The next is the Queens themselves. I like them all, but gettin around the fandom and general audience, I think Cruella really outshines the rest. For that reason alone, she’d put the Queens on a tight leash. Cruella is a static evil, unsympathetic character.

The last part is fatigue. While I think they are hilarious at being placed in the timeline, I don’t think people want to see more Evil Queen versus Snow White. If you want to know why the EQ gets more present after season 3, it’s because the showrunners really, really wanted it, despite fan “meh”ness. (Like Eddy literally asked that as some convention, “Wanna See Regina?” (Cheers), “How about the EQ?” (Muffled cheers).)

So, you’d have a static character, an overdone character, two characters with less of a following in a hard to do midquel.

I’d say a novel/comic book would be better.

Though toss in Zelena and it’ll never air because all the scene-chewery will literally be off the charts.

And to put at the very end, I’d still watch it.