Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20141104223506/@comment-15736398-20141105061909

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: How about this question.... will there even be a Big Bad, for the second half? General consensus holds that Kristin Baur van Straten's Maleficent is going to be the "Big Bad" for the second half of the season, as we know she's coming back for multiple episodes and what's been described as a "major arc".

As far as Cruella goes, the show's traditional pattern - from which they deviated only for the Frozen characters and for a very specific reason - says that she's not going to be anything like what people are expecting and that her portrayal and involvement is going to be anything but 'traditional', and I have a feeling she's going to have something to do with the search for the author of the "Once Upon a Time" storybook.