Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151023123622/@comment-26159109-20151024204836

CadoDoan wrote: If that would have happened, then you were all gonna say that the show is becoming boring episode by episode. They can't do something that can continue a whole season. These Camelot and potential 5B are just side-arcs. The important thing in season 5 is Dark Swan. I say you better get used to this consept, because it will always be like this. I couldn't disagree more. Season 1 was the best season of the show. There are a lot of showsthat do season long arc and they are far better than Once Upon A Time (like Buffy). Doing a season long arc lets the story have a natural flow and have more time for exposition, world building, character development and that way things don't have to solved after one minute by some duex ex machina that was invented a scene before.

If Dark Swan is the important thing in season 5 then why did they waste our time with a another quest for mcguffin and tell the backstory of unimportant Camelot characters? Why don't we see characters react about Emma being the Dark one? Why there wasn't even ONE scene of Snow and David talking with Emma in present day? Instead David is off to help the unimportant characters. Why is Henry being relaxed and reading a book after his mother was sucked in a vortex of evil a night ago? Shouldn't he be panicked or try to do something about his mother other than "La La La I just sit here reading a book so the audience would remember that I used to be an author but I'm not anymore because it's irrelevant to the current plot".