Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

I have very conflicting feelings about the last ep. Honestly, during maybe one of the most interesting curses you make everyone whose ‘true feelings’ we really wanna see, immune? Which basically was half the cast, and you put Belle to sleep? For like 2 whole seconds she was on screen and then Rumple LEFT her alone with Hook still in the shop? Hello! He could have killed her. Stolen heart or not. And for that matter ‘redeemed’ Hook or not.

Also they sorta went the comedy route with the curse which was not entirely what I expected. I was actually fine with it, since I did enjoy it, but they built it up to be this whole big terrible mean nasty horrible curse and then they didn’t deliver. Lana was superb though. From the promo pics I thought she was going to be too over the top, which she was but in a good way. The ending was anticlimactic, but basically their issues were so old and a little trivial (besides Henry’s) that the reaction to laugh it off felt appropriate.

The end of Ingrid was beautiful. Elizabeth Mitchell was amazing. I felt sympathy for her as I did not for Zelena. It was a touching sacrifice and one that reminded me of Rumple’s once upon a time ago. Though maybe they shouldn’t have phrased it as ‘death being her happy ending’ but I get that being with her sisters was. The wording just wasn’t quite right.

I was very disappointed with Will. Dude I was counting on you to clock that dirty pirate. Hook, of course did not surprise me at all with his juvenile remark about ‘together’ when the son of his gf just told him he didn’t like him. I don’t think the writers really get that it stopped being ‘charming’ a long while ago and that remarks like that only keep making him look like an inconsiderate part of the male anatomy.

Special shoutout to Lee Arenberg btw. ‘Don’t you sneeze on me!’ He always makes me laugh so hard.

PS. That was the shortest curse ever. It lasted what, 5 minutes?

Agreed. I think the more reasonable answer is that without his heart, Hook gives even less of a *bleep* about what the kid has to say.

Sadly this is exactly the reasoning every other character will use when/if? they find out about Hook’s bad deeds. Oh it was his heart, never mind that he did bad things all the time when he did have his heart (killing a man (who is magically not dead anymore as of an episode ago) within the last year). He was controlled, he couldn’t help it, oh but for convience sake he CAN feel love, cause that’s the way we want it, otherwise CS will suffer and we can’t have that.