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PrettyBlackRosePirate wrote:

I don't know why they decided to suddenly kill him off. ABC has been having a lot of budget cuts lately. With OUaT it was originally noticable in the wardrobe department. Having ten actors on contract, is quite expensive.

While Robin Hood's death was foreshadowed on 5.02, it was poorly written and executed. From a storytelling point of view, the writers hit a dead end in the overall story. The only problem was, that they made the dead end even worse. If Regina becomes the Evil Queen again, what was the point of the past five seasons? If she does not regress to her old ways, it will just be the two Mills sisters being miserable together. The story is stuck at a stand still, similar to how Gold has been since S3.