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I'll take it into an overall perspective and then continue with specifically 5B.

I was wondering the trend that 5b continues in relation to the rest of the show. I did a little test number the characters between 1(romantic) to 5 (Family-oriented) in terms of character focus. Feel free to do it yourself, but based of my opinions and contrived data, I found that:

Emma and Rumple plummet towards romance focus from their very family oriented start. Regina shifts toward romance but not to drastically (5b helps actually). David and Snow rise toward family oriented (technically MM and David Nolan are different characters though). Belle and Hook remain romance focus and Neal remains fairly balanced, surprisingly, even with his return in 5b to Emma.

What I also found interesting was that (nearly) all the major villains were family oriented (or focused their goals toward family), except when it comes to season 5 (5b is no exception).

Season 3-5: Robin was family oriented and that drastically drops towards romance. ALthough in 5b, he takes the mantle of father, we see him leave Roland and doesn't get enough screentime to largely matter and most is iffy.

Season 4 was fairly balanced as Kristoff was romance, Elsa was family, Anna was balanced. Mal, Lily, and Ursula were family oriented.

In season 5, Merlin and Nimue were romantic focused. Merida was family focused.

So, with the plummeting towards romance-focus and having a romance villain than it's essentially Season 1 but not family focused as it was, right? Well, yeah, but 5b had issues and character isn't one of them. (Post contined on next one).