Season 5 started out so strong. I agree, they really botched the dark one mythology. It could have been so cool, so incredible. Should have left Hook out of it. Should have actually made Emma evil. Loved introducing Merlin. I even liked Arthur being an antagonist. When he forced that guy to kill himself in the storybrooke jail cell….my goodness. It had so much potential. And they ruined most of it. The storybrooke part of season 5A was so bad especially. Like Emma keeping the sword in her basement. Not being able to pull it…and Merida training Rumple to be a hero to pull it……it was disgustingly awful.
Agree!
Yeah, it was bad. Writers shouldn’t do stuff like that. It was so bad. There is just so much you can do in a situation where Emma, the Good Guy, is now infected with the shows dark power. The first being actually make that really effect her besides the minor things she did comparatively to what an average villain on Ouat has done. Emma should have killed someone. Also, have that arc actually focus completely on the dark one power and what it has meant for Rumpel, the main character who has been the dark one for centuries.
This! We should have been able to explore the Dark One Curse and how it affects individuals. We should have come out of it with Emma having some understanding of what Rumple went through and the “heroes” understanding the struggles that Belle went through. Instead you got Emma not being all that dark, not doing anything, and writer promises that never came true along with the “heroes” basically saying if Rumple dies Oh Well. There was absolutely no insight at all! No character development at all, it was just all stupid nonsensical plot.