Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151023123622/@comment-26159109-20151023153604

No, not really. I had higher expectations from season 5. I thought that once Emma had become the Dark One, we would have finally see character's emotion, dept, how they deal with Emma becoming the Dark One, how Emma feels and deals with it. Instead we get the same thing whole over again. New characters no one cares about, a quest to find magical mcguffins, going around in circles doing nothing, retconing and getting to plot points without a lot of information of how we got there like if the audience knows something happened than it does not mean that a character should know it and leave it unexplained of how the characters knows something.

Arthur is a badly written character and a villain. They usually make the villains more sympathetic, but I just don't see it here. He pulled a sword from a stone and became a lunatic. I really don't care about him or what he has been through. Even Pan was more sympathetic.

I don't get why people need to compare everything to 4A, but if we're at it, 4A was much much better. Frozen characters were much more interesting than the Camelot's ones. Ingrid was a much more interesting villain than Arthur is.