Reply To: My Thoughts On This Episode

I’m not bothered by Zelena’s irrational jealousy of Regina. That, from the perspective of an older sister, makes PERFECT sense to me. (I will note that my sister is also now my best friend and I have never once tried to take her heart to cast a curse with.)

Regina’s also an easier target of her angry feelings; her mother’s dead, who knows about her fathers, and it’s just easier to hate someone who you don’t really know that well. It’s also easier to hate someone who is too much like you sometimes…especially if you see their getting preference over you.

Zelena’s motivations make perfect sense to me, but we all bring different experiences to the show.

Now, that’s not to say that there wasn’t some serious glossing over. We needed a bit more about Zelena’s adoptive daddy to really understand the root of her conflict with him. Other than having magic, there is NOTHING obviously wicked about Zelena before she goes to the wizard and discovers she got passed over in favor of her sister. And yeah, in a world where magic is both good and evil (4 lands ruled by witches, 50% good, 50% bad, when Dorothy goes there), there’s no reason for him to immediately connect magic to wickedness.

That said, I enjoyed this episode a lot. It had most of the things I want in a Once episode–Belle, Rumple, random characters from different stories meeting up, some magic, wandering around in one of my favorite stories, a twist that surprised me (yeah, Walsh being the wizard = awesome). Lots of good stuff, and a few good lines. Oh and pretty clothes.