OuaT Season 2 : The Bad

[babydraco]

I agree that it seems like they've lost track of what worked in Season 1 - the character driven story- in favor of ever more convoluted and badly thought out action/adventure plots. they needed at least another season of relational drama before launching into the stuff they're doing now, and certainly they shouldn't have tried to do all that stuff at once.

Too many characters, too many plots, making all the characters and plots suffer.

A lot of actors who play the smaller roles seem to be trying to get off the show. Meghan Ory, who plays Ruby, signed her contract with the understanding that she'd have a long plot arc, which was abandoned this season in favor of Neverland, magic beans, Groan and Tamara, etc.

People can't just live their lives on hold just in case the show decides to throw them a bone and give them some scenes.

Not everyone hates Neal, but nobody seems to want him and Emma to end up together. I agree. Every love interest she has had or could have is someone she shouldn't trust, but I blame him more because he's 1) not mentally ill, 2) not a pirate, 3) hasn't had his heart removed by an evil witch, 4) not a wooden puppet with a previously established honesty problem. Neal's not any better.

Some plots go on for way too long, while others are too rushed. Why introduce the Lacey thing at all if it was only going to last two or three episodes and be mostly a background thing?


http://www.tv.com/news/once-upon-a-time-season-2-finale-review-straight-on-til-season-3-136845805230/


I hope Jefferson isn't going to turn into the Ethan Rayne of this show. You know, this character who pops up out of nowwhere in a fan favorite episode, has mysterious but clearly important connections to several major characters, appears randomly in four other ones playing small roles that propel important plot points, acquires a small but vocal shipping community, then disappears and never comes back, never to be even referenced again. Even though there continue to be moments in the series when fans are going "this might be a good time to involve Jefferson or in any way acknowledge that he still exists" and then he's murdered offscreen in the post canon comics. And at some obscure fannish conference, the person most responsible for writing his character comes out and admits that a popular fan theory about him had been true all along and you're like 'thanks, could've used that info when the show was still on".