Overall I liked this episode but again, it had some minor flaws that I’m mostly able to look the other way on.
Overall: 8/10
Liked:
– The twist that Jekyll was the monster. I thought the backstory was great. And Jekyll basically framing Hyde for his murder was pretty great.
– Sat Witwer did a great job.
– Gold being bad again. Robert Carlyle just does it so well. I think they are setting him up this way so that he can die a hero at the end of this arc. I’m not sure how you could be on favor of this ship anymore. The writers don’t even want us to root for it anymore it seems. Which is fine, bc Belle isn’t being stupid. She recognizes the abuse and based on how bad it was this week, I just dn’t see any sort of reconciliation at this point. They have to kill Rumple and he’s going to sacrifice himself specifically for Belle.
– Charming getting thrown by Hyde.
– Gold’s new haircut. It looks good and it’s a nice switch up.
– How Jekyll and Hyde died was pretty cool. Actual blood on the show…
– Snow teaching was great. And as RG said, it’s SNOW teaching so that was nice to see.
– The flashbacks felt like The Nutty Professor and I didn’t hate it.
– Hook saving Belle. Hook doing wonders this year.
– The dagger coming into play. Always good.
– Great acting from the major players this week.
Mixed:
– Jekyll going from killing someone accidentally to full blown trying to murder Belle was a little too fast for my liking.
– The window scene. It just looked so forced. He was no where near the window and then how they got them to the window looked sloppy.
– Jasmine, yay! Actress, check! But come on….the slow reveal…we all knew it was Jasmine. But where is Aladdin? Clearly not in the land of untold stories like we thought. And my goodness, the Oracle has got to be Jafar. She had a staff. But if Jasmine is working with Jafar, is JAsmine evil? My guess is she needs him to find Aladdin but is not a bad person. Perhaps she is in debt to him.
Disliked:
– How is Rumple in fictional london? The same place we know Bae ended up….Is this before Bae went through the portal? We know Rumple is already with Belle at this point so I’m inclined to say Bae is already gone. So Rumple was in the same place Bae was but he just didn’t know it? Someone needs to explain this to me.
– Sam Witwer is gone. He was so good. Gosh that voice. And what a presence on the screen. It’s a shame he had to die just so they could show us how to kill a doppelganger.