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Reply To: Once Turns 100: Once Upon a Time Season 3 Retrospective

Home › Forums › Once Upon a Time › General discussion and theories › Once Turns 100: Once Upon a Time Season 3 Retrospective › Reply To: Once Turns 100: Once Upon a Time Season 3 Retrospective

February 21, 2016 at 12:52 pm #317422
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– Favorite Episode of the Season

probably 313.

– Favorite Character Introduced

IDK, Glinda? Rapunzel? I didn’t like Zelena at all and all the other new characters were just meh.

– Favorite Moment of the Season

My favorite moment was from the episode I hated most 320, which was the Charmings family with the new born baby.

– What were your thoughts on Zelena being Regina’s sister?

I didn’t like it and it never made sense, just reeks of bad retcon along with 318 retconning Cora’s backstory.

– How did you react to Neal’s death? ? Note: Please don’t bring up SwanFire vs CaptainSwan, for the sake of everyone’s sanity.

It was a bad decision, regardless of who should be with Emma. Neal had a connection with other characters, mainly Rumple and Henry. I didn’t appreciate that they just pretend like he never existed.

– Had Neal lived, how would the rest of 3B been different?

A lot. There wouldn’t be any lips curse to create tension and some kind of conflict between Emma and her love interest because Neal and Emma had already had a well developed conflict, However Emma would have still lost her powers because “Regina needs to save the day” I guess.

– What did you think of the twist that it was Regina who defeated Zelena with light magic instead of Emma?

It was horrible. They totally did a disservice to Emma’s character and her Savior status. Moreover, they treated her like a big plot device. They said that she was the only one that can save them, they cast the dark curse to get to her, they sacrificed Charming’s heart in order to do it just so she could ultimately do nothing. They never needed to do all of that, they only needed Regina to believe in herself, that’s crap.

– What were your thoughts on the show exploring the concept of time travel?

Never again.

– Regarding this Season, has your opinion changed at all looking back?

No. I hated it then and I hate it now. Besides the point that I already mentioned, this season felt fanservicy. The writing was simetimes bad – “The Queen may be evil, but I’m wicked, and wicked always wins”, ” This isn’t the wild west. No it’s the wicked west” (they’re not even in the west), “what did I ever do to you? You were born”. It was filled with inconsistencies and retcons – Cora’s backstory and sharing a heart nonesense. It had a lot of OOC moments to enable situations and plot like 320, which was the worst episode of s1-3, and it felt rushed, all the season was messy and rushed.

– Did the split season work for this full season?

Yes. Cause I can seperate the good OUAT (1-3A) from the crappy OUAT (3B – ???hopefully not more than 6).

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