I liked this episode much better then the first two. I liked the resistance and i liked Lucy a lot more. I liked Regina speaking from experience to Ella.
I think it was hard though to see them building the resistance just because this is what they should have shown with Snow and Charming, at least much more then they did, in Season 2 of the first Ouat. Now, we are trying to care about the resistance of these new characters and we don’t really know any of the players enough to care at this point.
Also, Tiana clearly knows Hook.
It, also, felt idiotic the way Regina was like nice to finally meet you, like Henry and Ella had some sort of relationship when they have had two conversations and met like 24 hours ago. That just did not work and felt silly. At least Snow and Charming spent the day together when they first met and you got to see the kind of people they were and why they might like each other. I am not at all clear why Ella might like Henry at this point, she knows nothing about him, or why Henry would like Ella.
There are a lot of weird assumptions in the writing that need to be explained better.