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Once Turns 100: Once Upon a Time Season 5A Retrospective
Season 5A Promos:
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501 – The Dark Swan
502 – The Price
503 – Siege Perilous
504 – The Broken Kingdom
505 – Dreamcatcher
506 – The Bear and the Bow
507 – Nimue
508 – Birth
509 – The Bear King
510 – Broken Heart
511 – Swan SongDiscussion Points (A few rough ideas)
– Favorite Episode of the Season
– Favorite Character Introduced
– Favorite Moment of the Season
– Regarding this Season, has your opinion changed at all looking back?[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Favorite episode?
The Dark Swan and Dreamcatcher.
The Dark Swan had a lot of funny moments and JMo/Bobby nailed the Emma DO Clippy! Rumple interactions. Yes, there were wonky bits but this far into the life of the series, which as much as went wrong toward the end, this episode started us off well.
Dreamcatcher was probably the most organic episode of the season. It fits comfortably inside OUAT version 1, family, Operation Cobra, Emma/Henry, plus tons of Neal/SF/Henry and his dad feelings.
Favorite Character Introduced?
Merlin, easily. It socks that the show killed him (and not just for political reasons) before we really got to see more of him. He was fun and if he had stuck around, I think he could have been a great mentor/teacher to Emma. Plus. Totally cute, amiright?
Favorite Moment?
Ooof. I don’t know. I honestly don’t have many. I really enjoyed Zelena’s snark though. And Emma/Henry talking about Neal.
Have Your Thoughts Changed?
Well, it hasn’t been that long since the season aired, but NO. This arc was by far the worst OUAT arc thus far. It was sloppy, illogical, ruined a lot of characters and mythology. The ending was painful (and not a good painful) because it didn’t seem to jive with anything set up in the beginning and several of the story lines were never resolved! OUAT has fallen into a lot of cliche writing and has begun self-plagerizing: killing the PoC, rape and wonky consent storylines, pointless fluff characters (Merida), and too much focus on ships made 5A a really bad experience.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Well, it hasn’t been that long since the season aired, but NO. This arc was by far the worst OUAT arc thus far. It was sloppy, illogical, ruined a lot of characters and mythology. The ending was painful (and not a good painful) because it didn’t seem to jive with anything set up in the beginning and several of the story lines were never resolved! OUAT has fallen into a lot of cliche writing and has begun self-plagerizing: killing the PoC, rape and wonky consent storylines, pointless fluff characters (Merida), and too much focus on ships made 5A a really bad experience.
Agree on all of this.
Favorite Episode: Tie between The Dark Swan, Dreamcatcher, Nimue, and Birth.
Favorite New Character: Merlin as well. However I will say that I enjoyed Arthur being rather evil more than most did.
Favorite Moment: When Emma rejects Nimue and doesn’t kill Merlin.
Worst half of a season for OUAT by far. Which is too bad because after the first three episodes, I was thinking it was the best since 3a. But then they blew it. Next half season can’t get any worse right?
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