Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20161217174626/@comment-30389283-20180212150709

Chameleon-Guy wrote: My list of worst episodes: - Season 1: Dreamy, didn't really care about this one, it's nice to explore Grumpy's backstory but... it felt boring compared to the rest of the season. But kudos for having Amy Acker and her performance! - Season 2: Any Greg and Tamara mini-arc episode, easily. Very annoying and boring characters, filler episodes, so: August's episode (for having Tamara's backstory and the decision to turn him into a kid again), Lacey and the Evil Queen, they all felt like fillers and uninteresting stories. - Season 3: Nothing to say, really, all great or decent episodes. - Season 4: I didn't like most of the Anna flashbacks, felt there were too many so it was repetitive and too long, but mostly: White Out, it was the worst, but the whole half of the season wasted too much time on Frozen and snobbed the main characters, so it's one of the worst for me, Shattered Sight was also disappointing, I was expecting more from this great idea of the curse, Belle's episode also sent her out of character. From 4B... only the pregnant Zelena "twist" was really annoying and ugh... but the rest felt solid to me. Every episode had great stuff, a lot of meat, and felt unique. - Season 5: Oh boy, where to start... I thought the Dark Swan arc was awesome until the Hook twist, it sort of turned the attention from her, which was unfair, and made it about Captain Swan, so the last 2 episodes: Broken Heart and Swan Song, so I agree with all of you about them. As for 5B, most episodes felt boring and uninteresting, like filler episodes, in particular Her Handsome Hero, Ruby Slippers, The Brother Jones and Our Decay, I didn't like any of these, the rest were pretty good, starting with Sisters (lots of development and closure for the Mills family), then Firebird and Last Rites a.k.a. the episode that thinned the cast (lol). - Season 6: I agree with people's pick of Dark Waters, Hook's centrics are boring, plus I didn't like The Other Shoe, Lady Tremaine was annoying and the "twist" was very similar to The Stable Boy. Street Rats was also a meh episode. As for 6B... nothing to say, all great episodes and mini-arcs that gave closure to the narrative. - Season 7: So far? A Pirate's Life and The Garden of Forking Paths, both boring episodes, I didn't like the decision to introduce another Hook, separate from the one we knew, Emma's closure didn't explain why she is off-screen all the time, and Ella's centric in episode 3 was kind of bland. So these are my thoughts, I believe I already said which are my favorite episodes and arcs, so here I focused on my list of worst. It's evident most of my problems are with episodes in 2B, 4A, 5B (plus the end of 5A), and some of 6A. I love every other half of the season. I just listed the ones I didn't care about. What do you think?

Agree with almost everything, except Shattered Sight, which I loved, and Firebird and Last Rites, which I thought were the former flat and the latter badly written. Garden of Forking Paths is not my favorite of the season, but I think it was pretty good, probably the only episode where I could stand Ella/Jacinda. Overall I think in S7 the worst so far are A Pirate's Life and Pretty in Blue.