Reply To: What if the show had ended after season 3A?

[Gaultheria]

Season 3A felt more than a bit claustrophobic, with a small cast and seemingly endless wandering through darkly forested sound stages. I think that’s when the show lost touch with Storybrooke as a character — which was an important source of the show’s charm — and never recovered. If they’d kept Storybrooke on-screen during the early part of 3A, and returned the core cast to town a little earlier than they did, it would have been a good closing point.