Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26443838-20150603124705/@comment-25926288-20150604140024

Eddiefunny wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Alot of how many seasons once gets will depend on how well it continues to do in pulling in the audience. Currently, it rules Sunday evenings in the target Demographic, and fairs reasonably well against even  things like Sunday Night Football and the many different awards shows. It may not draw as much audience as shows like Grey's Anatomy or How to Get Away with Murder, but it does well enough.

Also, I recall reading somewhere that the ABC top level execs like the show.

So, really, the show would have to tank really bad before the execs yanked it. And Adam and Eddy would have to run out of ideas before they pulled the plug on it. So, all that being said, as long as Adam and Eddy have good story lines, this show could run for 9-10 seasons.

Side Note: If it does run that long, they will definitley have to do SOMETHING to allow Henry (and Roland, Grace, Hansel, Gretel, and the other children to grow up). I still think a good spin off series is a "future" series that features the Children of the Fairy Tale legends. Have Henry, Roland, Alexandra, Neal, Philip Jr., and Baby Zelena (and maybe Grace and Hansel/Gretel) form the core group, and place them in their 20's (Henry would be in his 30's), and have them travel back (or get sucked back) to the EF, and see how Children raised in a Modern world cope with the EF as adults. You'd have to cast the adult versions of all the kids. I absolutely believe this is a great idea for a spin-off series.

The writers have said already that they know how it's going to end. So basically they should try to be heading to that point. Anything else would just be a filler.

And in hindsight the Peter Pan, Wicked Witch & Frozen arcs were just detours to the main storyline which, I feel like, we've finally reached. So I would be happy if the series ends up finishing in another 1 or 2 seasons as long as the story stays on track and it doesn't take too many detours. I would be an advocate for season 3 and say that it was used to help move the character redemption between Rumple and Regina as well as Emma accepting who she is. Frozen arc was simply a recycling of those previous character arcs in 3. At most, Frozen was the only detour.

The writers knew how the story would end after season one, so it doesn't matter if they know the end, there's still the journey to it. Like in a book, you have a hero start on a quest and you know he'll defeat the villain, but you don't have the hero just go ahead and defeat the villain because that'll be like two pages long.

Emma is the Savior and bringer of light and happiness. She has accepted her family, her origin, her role, and her magic (Season 3a, 2, 1, 3b) and now she has sacrificed herself to save others (4b). Now, it should be heading to where Emma defeats the Darkness once and for all, which should be this season.