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I agree with the others. They should have introduced the Black Fairy a lot earlier in the season. Aladdin and Jasmine and Jafar, who was never anyone, were a complete waste of screentime. The only good scenes where the few Aladdin scenes with Emma. The rest could have been cut. The writers of this show just don’t understand what is interesting and they never will.
This season just has no narrative arc at all beside Emma’s hands are still shaking and the finale battle is still coming on repeat which is not an arc.
[adrotate group="5"]I really wish Hyde and the Black Fairy would have been working together. That’d be a fun pair up
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I agree with the others. They should have introduced the Black Fairy a lot earlier in the season. Aladdin and Jasmine and Jafar, who was never anyone, were a complete waste of screentime. The only good scenes where the few Aladdin scenes with Emma. The rest could have been cut. The writers of this show just don’t understand what is interesting and they never will. This season just has no narrative arc at all beside Emma’s hands are still shaking and the finale battle is still coming on repeat which is not an arc.
I’m also frustrated that they teased big revelations in terms of Savior mythology, and I don’t know about anyone else, but it feels like they really haven’t delivered on that as of yet.
Do you think the Black Fairy and Gideon would have been as interesting had their characters’ arcs been stretched out all season? Don’t get me wrong. I really like Gideon, and I would have preferred to have seen more of his story with his parents and his savior dynamic with Emma. He is an original character, which means a lot could have been done with him. Plus, he is an interesting foil for Emma. (e.g. Both were given up for their best chances, both discovered their destiny on their 28th birthday, both have magic though one is dark and the other is light, etc…). The Black Fairy is interesting, too, though her story seems like it can be contained to a single episode. Sometimes characters’ arcs seem better than they are precisely because they’re written concisely and in the span of a few episodes rather than stretched out and diluted with “filler” episodes.
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I’m also frustrated that they teased big revelations in terms of Savior mythology, and I don’t know about anyone else, but it feels like they really haven’t delivered on that as of yet.
They haven’t at all. If anything they’ve just confused it.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I’m also frustrated that they teased big revelations in terms of Savior mythology, and I don’t know about anyone else, but it feels like they really haven’t delivered on that as of yet.
They haven’t at all. If anything they’ve just confused it.
The Dark One mythology from last Season was honestly more fleshed out by comparison, and even then I wanted more of it.
Do you think the Black Fairy and Gideon would have been as interesting had their characters’ arcs been stretched out all season? Don’t get me wrong. I really like Gideon, and I would have preferred to have seen more of his story with his parents and his savior dynamic with Emma. He is an original character, which means a lot could have been done with him. Plus, he is an interesting foil for Emma. (e.g. Both were given up for their best chances, both discovered their destiny on their 28th birthday, both have magic though one is dark and the other is light, etc…). The Black Fairy is interesting, too, though her story seems like it can be contained to a single episode. Sometimes characters’ arcs seem better than they are precisely because they’re written concisely and in the span of a few episodes rather than stretched out and diluted with “filler” episodes.
I don’t like Gideon. I don’t really like the actor either. I think he could have been interesting but he is just being controlled by the black fairy, so nothing that he has done or is doing is actually interesting at all.
It is the Black Fairy that should have come in, not Gideon. She should have known Hyde or been that bird that appeared to Emma when she met the oracle. There should have been some connection to Hyde and Jafar and the Black Fairy or the Blue Fairy. Hyde should have died quickly, in my opinion. That was right, but they then did nothing interesting. The split queen arc was boring and lasted too long and really nothing happened of that until the episode where the Evil Queen and Regina finally talked. The Snowing sleeping curse was boring and also lasted too long and nothing interesting came of it either.
I do agree that things last too long, but there needed to be a connection between all these things. I completely agree with the other poster that they have done nothing with the savior mythology at all except to say that there are multiple ones. That hasn’t even been discussed since early in the season in any way except Gideon wants to be the savior which makes no sense.
There are just no connections here. It is just a bunch of random elements with no coherent arc at all. It is bad. I thought the beginning of this season started of well with some open questioned, but the end has just been random boring nothing.
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