Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170515015929/@comment-31937823-20170515143107

8-8.5/10

Positives:

- It had a great buildup with solid pacing. The first episode did a great job of setting up each character and their motivations.

- Jamie Murray delivered a great performance as the villain

- callbacks, references, and Easter eggs to other seasons

- Jared Gilmore delivered a better performance than usual

- Jennifer Morrison played a believable main character who is perplexed and wants to just escape from everything.

- The music, the costumes, and the cinematography

- The overall direction was fine, I suppose.

- The sets were mainly good, but we only got introduced to just the interior of the Sanitarium, nothing else other than the usual or done by CGI

- The visual effects were satisfying. Not the best, not the worst, achieved what they were meant to do without being too distracting.

- Snow's speech at the end, and the overall structure of the plot (though I wished it moved quicker)

- Overall, the writing was good, with a few exceptions mentioned in my negatives section and my questions.

Negatives:

- I thought it was a little underwhelming. I just Anticipated more.

- one or two character deaths (as was promised)

- no more expanding character trees (as was promised)

- character's not getting happy beginnings (as was promised)

- a few magical fights

- Emma waking up sooner

- the Black Fairy dying so easily

- wished it moved quicker

- this just irked me: they said "belief," way too much

Questions:

- how did Zelena find the hat? Did I miss this? And how did she end up powering it without magic?

- how do you wake up a fall like a sleeping curse? Does True Love's Kiss heal anybody, regardless of any Magic being used upon them to reduce them to that state?

- where did everybody that escaped from Agrabah go?

- did the Mayor's floor tiling change?