Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151208210504/@comment-1916997-20151223200608

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: Where does it say Dorothy will be in multiple episodes? I have never seen anything besides them referring to the role as "recurring guest star." However, I'm certain it is only one episode and the rest is speculative or it's just perspectively erroneous. I hope so. There are already too much secondary characters, we don't more. I don't get why people are so excited about that, can't they understand the more characters (returning or new), the more the story is going to be a mess and unfocused. I'm excited about the episode, but I will say that noone should want more characters. The writers have shown that we can't put our hope in their hands because it'll always be returned broken and sullied. Many strive for season 1 and 2 thoughts when it has only gotten worse, not better. Hoping that they do get better when the facts show that it gets worse is a sad thing. Either those characters would be strong and the main story is denied its full glory or the main story would shortcut those new characters. I want more characters, because I enjoy seeing their take on new stories, and you can't do that without introducing more characters. And every show (and any fiction that is serialized really) introduces new characters as it goes on anyway, so I'm not sure what you guys expect. Come down from General Hospital of Literary Elements and let's talk literal. (Yeah, a pun!) There is a different level of characters that we mean, which I'm sure you may be aware of.

New minor characters is different from new medial (whatever is in between minor and major) characters and new main characters. For example, shows introduce love interest #3 for a character and it's totally fine because it's a minor character. Likewise, what Will was.

The difference is wanting tons of minor characters to be medial characters. We can have to whole gang of Storybrooke hopefuls, but there has to be a balance. We have Zelena, Robin, Belle, Henry and Arthur and Merida as medial characters. So, we must subtract to add new medial characters. If we add Mulan, Red, Medg, Herc, Dorothy, and Hades. That's doubling a cast that didn't get enough balanced exposure. That's the issue I have. We can't bundle them together, minor, medial, and major. More minor characters is trivial, more medial characters is tricky, and more main characters is risky. Well, yes, but again, this is something all serialized fiction deals with, and is not exclusive to Once. And I'm not saying I want the new characters to be major characters, but I still enjoy seeing them, even in smaller roles. Like Glinda, she's a good example, she was their take on the classic character, she supported both Zelena's story, and the Charming's story, and she could appear again in the future.