Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-10663213-20180306175318/@comment-28162607-20180404192243

CoolDudeAl wrote: Aine1989 wrote: Eskaver wrote:

Plus, (sorry writers) I think the longer a character is written, the worse they get. Look at Snow and David season 1. Lovely. Eventually they became babysnatchers, Snow started projecting blame, David became some pirate hater (though I would say that 5 and 6 did help his character a lot). I am 100% onboard with this. I think the problem is all the characters were repeating storylines; Emma and her walls/trust issues, Killian and his past biting him on his pretty little ass, Regina's struggle to have a happy ending, Rumple and Belle and their "we are never getting back together, like ever". And so it gets tedious and shows the characters haven't learned their lessons. I agree that some characters did get stuck in loops, which is more that the writers didn't know how to advance their personal arcs (by making tough calls like killing them off) than anything else. Like Belle dying allowed Rumple to advance with actually getting rid of the Darkness (which was a concept brought up in 5A), but then never explored. I think the only one that wasn't as frustrating was Rumple and Belle's one, because it mimics abusive relationships in real life where an abuse victim may go back before leaving completely.

However, they then backtracked it all in 6b.

I have a BTS theory on the Rumple/Darkness thing: they did not expect Bobby to stay on for seaosn 7 (or to even get a season 7) and had a plan for him to die heroically in 6b, so the Guardian thing was whipped out of their asses, pardon my French.

I mean, obviously it's all speculation, but it could be the reason.