Great episode. Just raced by. When Ingrid was having her Big Feels moment I was going “seriously? We’re already at the climax?!!”
Loved all the snark, all the witty one liners (I feel the writers had a field day with this one) and the gags like Hook being Home Alone-d by Henry.
Still don’t like the Snow Queen as a character. She was just too over the top. Too earnest, too unhinged, too poorly thought out a plan… Much like early Regina, she couldn’t see past her own interpretation of events to what was actually going on. The resolution to her story though, THAT was excellent story telling. Yeah, I get that some people might be uncomfortable with the suicide sacrifice line, but as someone who has had plenty of suicidal ideation, I don’t find it triggering at all when it’s in this hyper fantastic context. (and as an aside, having conversations about mental health and suicide/self harm should not be avoided under the excuse of “not wanting to trigger you” – that’s nonsense.)
Her plan was just bad. There’s other words I could use, and have used on my Twitter, but here the censor police would swoop in and edit my post so we’ll just stick with “bad”. Imma gonna do something that will destroy all the people you actually care about so you only care about me and we have happy sisterly love??? It’s just dumb! It always was.
The only thing that I didn’t like, and even then it’s not a didn’t-like thing and more just a yelling-at-the-tv thing… stop picking on Dopey! It’s not his fault he’s simple! :-/