{"id":9196,"date":"2017-05-16T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2017-05-16T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:35:51","slug":"once-upon-a-time-season-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/once-upon-a-time-season-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time (season 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Love is the most powerful magic of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once Upon a Time<\/strong> season 6, aired in 2016-17<\/p>\n<p>Emma is having visions of the future, Hyde thinks Storybrooke is his, and Gold goes inside Belle&#8217;s dreams to wake her up. The Evil Queen is back &#8212; she and Regina have separate bodies now. Hyde brought with him a bunch of people from the Land of Untold Stories &#8212; one of them is the Count of Monte Cristo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit soap opera-ish at times, although I still wanted to see what happened to my favourite characters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s storyline was a bit uneven. One problem was they introduced some characters who didn&#8217;t really fit into the world of fairy tale characters&nbsp;&#8212; like Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and Captain Nemo. The ultimate villain wasn&#8217;t introduced until&nbsp;fairly late in the season, and her motivations weren&#8217;t entirely clear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They kicked things up a notch for the last few episodes. The second last episode was a musical, which was absolutely delightful.<\/p>\n<p>The last episode, clearly filmed to be a series finale,&nbsp;had some good things but was also quite frustrating. The aspect of the plot that was stolen from <strong>The Neverending Story<\/strong> didn&#8217;t really fit in. The writers seemed a bit sloppy in terms of keeping their magical rules consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Hank Harris and Sam Witwer.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/once-upon-a-time-season-5\/\">season 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show has been renewed for season 7, but it will be very different &#8212; with most if not all of the main cast leaving, they&#8217;re going to focus on new characters.&nbsp;If history has taught us anything, this is a bad idea &#8212; the writers have said what they wanted to say, and they should have left it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Love is the most powerful magic of all.&#8221; Once Upon a Time season 6, aired in 2016-17 Emma is having visions of the future, Hyde thinks Storybrooke is his, and Gold goes inside Belle&#8217;s dreams to wake her up. The Evil Queen is back &#8212; she and Regina have separate bodies now. Hyde brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10723,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}