‘Once Upon a Time’ season 5 spoilers: Be prepared for some first-season nostalgia

If you look back at the humble beginnings of “Once Upon a Time,” it was in many ways a very different show. It had a much more procedural feel, mostly in that every episode featured a different character or characters who needed some sort of help from Emma Swan. It had a very interesting feel, since at the time none of the characters even knew that they had a fairy-tale counterpart.

So are we about to see something similar for the second half of season 5? It certainly seems that way at the moment. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in a new interview, co-creator Edward Kitsis had the following to say about how this structure is going to be a very major part of how the show functions:

“The second half is going to be very similar to the first season in that we’re going to see Storybrooke as a place of people with unfinished business … We have to wonder if we can’t help them find their happy endings even in the afterlife.” 

Personally, we’re rather excited about this change, given that it could help the series in some ways bring back a little more of its original feel. Also, it could address what we feel was one of the larger issues of the first half of season 5: The show was a little too complicated, and the timeline fluctuations took away from a little bit of the drama we could have ultimately got from the Dark Swan. It almost felt like nobody could have handled Emma truly going down the dark side, so she in the end felt a little bit muted.

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