Why was wonderland cancelled

Finding out that her true love, Cyrus, is alive and in danger. I understand that she was grieving a love lost, but come on. She was about to let some doctor mess around with her memories, which, in Victorian times, means a lobotomy was in her future.

She would likely still have been spending her birthdays alone if her son Henry hadn't run away from home and crossed state lines just to drag her to Storybrooke. But as easy as it is to admire Alice for her determination, and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland for turning the rescue romance on its head, the fact still remains that Alice's introduction to the plot has been done quite a lot already, while Emma's introduction was a new variation on the reluctant hero theme. There's nothing wrong with romance, but the one between Alice and Cyrus was stretched out for so long that by the time they were reunited, half the fanbase was hoping for her to get with the Knave of Hearts instead.

Then there were the villains. Taking the place of the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin was the Red Queen and Jafar, their relationship more or less as complicated and vitriolic as the characters they were imitating.

And that's just what they felt like: an imitation. Once Upon a Time had struck gold writing villains with three dimensions, dark pasts, and compelling reasons for being the people they are today, but Once Upon a Time in Wonderland 's attempt to do the same thing basically screamed copycat. The numerous comparisons that could be drawn between the Red Queen and the Evil Queen, and between Rumplestiltskin and Jafar, distracted from their character development. We loved the idea.

We knew the creative was great, and so we loved the idea of having a run of empowered women going all the way through Thursday night [with Grey's Anatomy and Scandal ].

But in retrospect, I think it would have done better there, and I should have stuck to the earlier idea. One season and it was all over this show, despite the potential that it had. It just goes to show how difficult it is to make a spin-off project work, even when it features iconic characters coming together for a grand story.

Via fandom. Via Pinterest. Share Share Tweet Email. Anthony Spencer Articles Published. Read Next in television. Did the viewers not get used to this new format and that's what lead the show to cancellation?

Leave your opinions below. OUAT was in its 3rd season, and we knew they were trying for the first time the "two arcs per season" format. Basically, we knew it would be 3A - hiatus - 3B. Finally, ABC put it on Thrusday at 8pm. Grey's was at 9pm and Scandal at 10pm. By ep 4, it was nearly sure to be dead. This seems reasonable.

Even the ABC president of that time said it. That infamous Paul Lee. He admitted it.