Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161010010027/@comment-4975807-20161010061249

CTrent29 wrote: What does Cinderella have to do with the season's main arc? The flashbacks are to give context to the motivations of the characters in present time, such as Ashley/Ella, Clorinda, and Lady Tremaine. The present storyline is to show an untold story being played out. If Clorinda had stayed in the Land of Untold Stories forever, she and Ella would have never crossed paths again. Clorinda would've never found Jacob in Storybrooke, and Lady Tremaine wouldn't have gotten her comeuppance. Not all things that happen when untold stories play out are good, though, such as when Ella got stabbed by Lady Tremaine.