@RumplesGirl wrote:
@HappyEndings wrote:
I think people really don’t like this Season as much as they did the 1st one, also all these breaks kind of wear people down. 😕
I wonder why that is. I’ve thought this season had been very strong, especially the last few episodes. Was it the filler episodes people didn’t like? Frankenstien, Tiny, ect? These episodes from Manhattan to the finale are focusing on the main characters. We really need to get a boost next week.
Well I can’t speak for everyone, but even though the first third of the season before the winter break had some good episodes, I don’t think they should have spent so much time in present day FTL and with so many new characters especially Aurora and Mulan. I guess it’s possible that there’s a return trip back to FTL before the end of the season, so they needed to lay groundwork for that to happen. Right now though, it just seems like such a big waste of time when there was so much momentum happening from the Curse being partially broken at the end of last season and the start of this season and seeing how people reacted to that.
Not that I’m against new characters, but I feel like they missed a big opportunity to focus on what happened to the characters that we already knew of in Storybrooke, like Abigail, Frederick, Ella, Sydney, Nova, etc., and how they were adapting to getting their memories back. I know some of it is scheduling because many of the actors were on other shows, but I would have spent more time on that instead of just jumping to present day FTL right away. Or maybe they should have just focused on Storybrooke more by highlighting more than just the main characters, they could have focused on present day FTL but just cut out the flashbacks since when they tried to do three story lines with present day Storybrooke and FTL and flashbacks, most of the time they didn’t work together. Like maybe flashbacks would match either what was going on in Storybrooke or what was going on in FTL, but all three story lines would never really go together.
Further, I think that besides trying to cram three story lines together in one episode, I think they drug out the present day FTL story line for too long. We still could have met Aurora, Mulan, Hook, and Anton and had Emma and Snow only be gone for a two to three episodes instead of nine episodes. I also feel that they focused too much on Regina’s redemption story line during those first nine episodes. I get that it’s a major part of this season, but it just didn’t make for very good television for the most part, imo.
Anyhow, I can see why people left the show in big numbers because they started to lose focus on what made the first season so addictive to watch. There was more action going on in the first half of this season than there was last season, but I think that they sacrificed the characters’ relationships a lot more until the past few episodes. Now that they’re back to focusing in on those relationships more, I think there’s definitely a noticeable change in how great the show can be again. I stuck around because I still enjoy the show even when it’s not a very good episode like how I felt about “The Doctor” or “Child of the Moon”, but there’s so many other options on Sunday nights that I could see how people may have just gave up on it.
I don’t the ratings are enough for me to start panicking yet even though it’s sad the show will likely never get the ratings that it use to. I just hope that the writers realize what they did wrong in losing so many viewers and keep doing what they’ve been doing the last few episodes to keep most of the viewers that they still have.