Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20151224174750/@comment-25926288-20151226214229

CoolDudeAl wrote: 8Rob wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: 8Rob wrote: Yes. I'm sure they changed plans at some point of 5A because we like a flash at the end in 5x01 when they came back. And we know that is not like the Dark Curse looks It's called a misdirect. They plan the whole season out in advance. We know they do this. But misdirect can go as far as changing the show's logic?

Because Hook enacting the Dark Curse by throwing Merlin's heart in a communicator spell is .... well.... kinda far from just "misdirect" The show's magic has always been like this though. It's not like we've ever had a list of ingreidents that make up a Dark Curse, or any potion for that matter. It was at least the hari of dark souls and even Pan put in real ingredients, while Hook put in nothing but heart dust..

Planned yeah, executed properly ......nope. That's where Once fails. It's the execution, not the planning. If we ignore ABC's advertising misdirection, things of this arc were set up, but weren't executed properly and only a few plans changed. If they decided to change plans, it is notciable. Or rather, it may have been that some writers don't get the memo like everyone else. Merlin and Nimue was obviously hinting at Emma and Hook and even had an earlier mention, but it seems sort of nowehere and friztrating to the audience because not all the writers hinted towards it.

Nimue (Jane's episode) hinted towards it, The Price (Chamberliss and Horgan) did as well, but the others gave them no basis.

Anyhow, why is there a 5a discusiion here? This article doesn't really discuss 5a.