Once Upon A Time Season 5 Discussion Thread -Spoilers

[Enterprise is Great]

Season 6 doing away with half season arcs -- http://tvline.com/2016/06/11/once-upon-a-time-season-6-dropping-half-season-storylines/

 

[Mr Light]

That's a shame. I really liked the half season arcs.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I liked the 1/2 season arcs too, they helped things move along at a good pace. Sometimes when they do full season 22 episode arcs it can feel kind of dragged out.

One of the things I liked about the finale was that it gave credence as to why the Dr. Whale character was included back in season 1, even though he was from the Frankenstein mythos and wasn't a "fairy tale" character.

All these iconic stories (like Snow White, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein) have their basis elsewhere. The interesting thing TPTB will be able to investigate next year is whether our world's "authors" merely steal the "reality" of these other world characters and twist it to their wishes (like The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum and J.M. Barrie) or whether these authors themselves interacted with these other world characters (Like young Henry Mills or "old" Samuel Clemons aka Mark Twain.) and transcribed said adventures for our benefit.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before, but I still want to know how events that happened 28 years before the series started, could be the inspiration for stories that are hundreds of years old.

 

[Mr Light]

I also liked that each half season was around a certain movie/story, and then we could look forward to a new movie/character in the next volume. Fingers crossed for Zootopia! I wonder if they can get the voice actress for Judy Hopps...

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Yeah, I liked the 1/2 season arcs too, they helped things move along at a good pace. Sometimes when they do full season 22 episode arcs it can feel kind of dragged out.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before, but I still want to know how events that happened 28 years before the series started, could be the inspiration for stories that are hundreds of years old.

Well, I think its because when Regina sent her victims to the land without magic, she also had them go forward in time.