Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4637931-20180513150817/@comment-27060727-20180515160303

I think that the last scene with the core cast in season 6 was as good of an ending as any. I would've preferred that Emma and Henry had actually been with their family, but they did get focus and the "happy endings" we'll see in 7x22 will be more of the same.

Emma and Hook had just gotten married the episode prior - the baby now is truly a bonus. Belle and Rumple had just reconciled - and now I'm torn about how I feel that she aged decades in a few real-time years and had an "early" death to the rest of the world. Regina will be getting exact same ending, on more of a FTL scale - but she hasn't much of her own storyline this season and it sounds like they'll just be sticking in a last-minute test during the final hour. Zelena found love but that relationship got no development, so it's pretty irrelevant to me.

'The only thing that would've felt incomplete would be those Henry/Lucy scenes, but A&E wrote them into the finale knowing that the show would be renewed. It was never going to be a surprise cancellation situation, so we really shouldn't be factoring this into whether or not we needed season 7. The backhalf of 7B could've been completely restructured had they planned for Regina & Rumple's definite endings then as well, with him getting rid of the darkness and not keeping it as a plot thing for S7.

tl;dr - for me, I can't think of anything I needed or particularly wanted that they ended up showing in season 7 that would outweigh all of the problems it brought. They surprisingly did keep everyone alive and happy by the end of 6x22.