Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180329213328

These are two huge things that I feel made seasons one to three-a so...great. The set up for everything was there, there were these really interesting dynamics between the characters, etc.

E.g. Regina and Emma : We see this vivid contrast in the way they do motherly things.

E.g. Cora's plan to become queen, Rumple's dark curse plan, etc.

But the show slowly starts to get sloppy with these aspects. I mean, Zelena for example had zero foreshadowing of her existence as Regina's sister/Cora's other daughter, and the same goes for her return (arguably, Marian still being frozen after Ingrid's death was foreshadowing). In both arcs with curses, 3B and 5A, it just showed what happened in the past...and then had the exact same thing in the present... Which is basically what the show always did, but there was a lack of reflection of the characters (not really sure how to explain it).  