The fact that she will be 20-30 doesn't make sense but whatever...
The fact that she will be 20-30 doesn't make sense but whatever...
Can you believe we never had an Aurora centric episode ever? I mean there's a difference between her and Arthur and Merida. The other two get so much backstory and info and screentime, but they are tangent or dropped off the main plot and sort of stand around lost half the time. Aurora never did that. Likewise, Dorothy is best being the Aurora of season 5b and onwards. That is unless she's actually just a minor character (like Gwen and Lancelot who get an episode when they play so little in the story), of which she deserves no major focus.
The problem is too many minor characters taking time that isn't theirs to hold and too many medial characters getting an imbalance of screentime and story. Adding more characters to that doesn't make it better, even if you enjoy new characters. It's like continually adding more sugar to the cake just because you like sugar...it will just make it worse.
It's not just Aurora. Most supporting characters in season 1-3A were added to enrich the story or the main characters. For example, episode 211 was Belle and Mulan's backstory, but it wasn't about Mulan, it was about Belle (back when she was more than just a babysitting doormat who sleeps all the time) compared to 506 the "Belle's centric" which was all about Merida.
Can you believe we never had an Aurora centric episode ever? I mean there's a difference between her and Arthur and Merida. The other two get so much backstory and info and screentime, but they are tangent or dropped off the main plot and sort of stand around lost half the time. Aurora never did that. Likewise, Dorothy is best being the Aurora of season 5b and onwards. That is unless she's actually just a minor character (like Gwen and Lancelot who get an episode when they play so little in the story), of which she deserves no major focus.
The problem is too many minor characters taking time that isn't theirs to hold and too many medial characters getting an imbalance of screentime and story. Adding more characters to that doesn't make it better, even if you enjoy new characters. It's like continually adding more sugar to the cake just because you like sugar...it will just make it worse.
And Rumple.
I was just giving an example of a medial character. There were none in 3a (I guess Pan and Neal), but everyone else was minor, like Tink and Ariel.
New minor characters is different from new medial (whatever is in between minor and major) characters and new main characters. For example, shows introduce love interest #3 for a character and it's totally fine because it's a minor character. Likewise, what Will was.
The difference is wanting tons of minor characters to be medial characters. We can have to whole gang of Storybrooke hopefuls, but there has to be a balance. We have Zelena, Robin, Belle, Henry and Arthur and Merida as medial characters. So, we must subtract to add new medial characters. If we add Mulan, Red, Medg, Herc, Dorothy, and Hades. That's doubling a cast that didn't get enough balanced exposure. That's the issue I have. We can't bundle them together, minor, medial, and major. More minor characters is trivial, more medial characters is tricky, and more main characters is risky.
Well, yes, but again, this is something all serialized fiction deals with, and is not exclusive to Once. And I'm not saying I want the new characters to be major characters, but I still enjoy seeing them, even in smaller roles. Like Glinda, she's a good example, she was their take on the classic character, she supported both Zelena's story, and the Charming's story, and she could appear again in the future.
Farerb wrote:
Can you believe we never had an Aurora centric episode ever? I mean there's a difference between her and Arthur and Merida. The other two get so much backstory and info and screentime, but they are tangent or dropped off the main plot and sort of stand around lost half the time. Aurora never did that. Likewise, Dorothy is best being the Aurora of season 5b and onwards. That is unless she's actually just a minor character (like Gwen and Lancelot who get an episode when they play so little in the story), of which she deserves no major focus.
The problem is too many minor characters taking time that isn't theirs to hold and too many medial characters getting an imbalance of screentime and story. Adding more characters to that doesn't make it better, even if you enjoy new characters. It's like continually adding more sugar to the cake just because you like sugar...it will just make it worse.
It's not just Aurora. Most supporting characters in season 1-3A were added to enrich the story or the main characters. For example, episode 211 was Belle and Mulan's backstory, but it wasn't about Mulan, it was about Belle (back when she was more than just a babysitting doormat who sleeps all the time) compared to 506 the "Belle's centric" which was all about Merida.
I thought 5x06 was more about Belle, especially the present, but even in the flashback, it's Belle who solves the problem by teaching Merida a lesson.
Farerb wrote:
Can you believe we never had an Aurora centric episode ever? I mean there's a difference between her and Arthur and Merida. The other two get so much backstory and info and screentime, but they are tangent or dropped off the main plot and sort of stand around lost half the time. Aurora never did that. Likewise, Dorothy is best being the Aurora of season 5b and onwards. That is unless she's actually just a minor character (like Gwen and Lancelot who get an episode when they play so little in the story), of which she deserves no major focus.
The problem is too many minor characters taking time that isn't theirs to hold and too many medial characters getting an imbalance of screentime and story. Adding more characters to that doesn't make it better, even if you enjoy new characters. It's like continually adding more sugar to the cake just because you like sugar...it will just make it worse.
I thought 5x06 was more about Belle, especially the present, but even in the flashback, it's Belle who solves the problem by teaching Merida a lesson.
Not to get off-topic, Belle had the time, but who gets the credit: Merida and Belle. Episode will discover a hero and it's a Belle episode and it's her main goal and everyone but her achieves that goal.
But let's stay on topic.
First look at Warrior Dorothy:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BATB7YPFMq5/?taken-by=terireeves
Lady Junky wrote: First look at Warrior Dorothy:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BATB7YPFMq5/?taken-by=terireeves
Her uniform looks just like Alice's battle dress or something. Aside from Oz, I wonder where else Dorothy might appear.
I wonder if Dorothy has magic (light magic). I mean perhaps she'll free Glinda. Otherwise, I don't know how she'd stand a chance to Megawitch Zelena.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BATB7YPFMq5/?taken-by=terireeves
Looks good. I can't complain.