Kinda tough to find favorite moments in this episode…Which doesn’t mean, it was totally awful, it wasn’t, just a colorless filler episode. Good intentions but they didn’t quite had the right ideas, how to present it.
Liked:
The attempt to give insight into David’s emotions and thoughts. About time. Good mark for intention, but execution was not great. The scene with Emma in the nursery though was good. There was a moment I frowned a bit, it felt slightly unappropriate how David and Emma were reacting to each other (blame the good chemistry between the actors ;)), but on the other hand the thing of the whole scene was, that it wasn’t at all meant to be nice, friendly or comfortable, it was meant to be somewhat off. It was no all happy thoughts for David, it was a nightmare. Not sure if that was intentional, that the tension or chemistry between David and Emma was a tad awkward, if so, brilliant, but sure felt a moment of uneasiness before the scenery changed into scary dark nursery (anyone else had to think of Chucky?) and the vortex showed up.
Also the moment between Regina and Henry. No whiny, clingy Regina but one dealing with things as they are at the moment in the best way possible. Liked the softness she showed. And might be a good thing for her to have to get know Henry in a new way.
Oh, and thanks for this:
Emma (to Hook): “Yes, I was in love, so of course I was considering it. As usual, he wasn’t who he said he was, and got my heart broken. That enough humor for you?”
Emma might have jumped into action mode very fast, she is that kind of person, but doesn’t mean she is all over and done with her emotions about what happened with Walsh.
Not liked:
The whole Rapunzel story. What was the point? Okay, facing your fears, which of course showed up in a hooded figure revealing after a while itself as yourself (we’re our own worst nightmare, enemies, and so on, there was more to The Grudge though). What did that have to do with Rapunzel? This was not putting their own twist on a fairy tale, this was pretty much just name/character dropping. And the story didn’t make sense. So Rapunzel and her parents were one of those who stayed behind? Thanks to Cora or thanks to Regina’s curse only having taken a limited number of people, just those she choose? And Rapunzel was in that tower too long so she lost count of the years? Uh? Okay, a year can look very long if you have not much of a distraction like no TV or computer and internet around. But who provided for her all this time when it was her own nightmare chasing her into the tower? She had to eat, right? Maybe casual viewers don’t care about such tiny details, but don’t be surprised, if they are more and more confused about what is happening when and where, pre-curse, post-curse, dark-cursed, de-cursed, re-cursed, whatever-cursed, not to mention the realms, Neverland, Wonderland, Netherworld, Black-White-Land, Someworld, Hereland, Thereland… In that sense, it was a good thing that Rapunzel’s story was so irrelevant that no one really needs to care.
Oh, speaking of the t-thing: David and Snow didn’t wait long to get to it, did they? Maybe a few days in, a month, yeah, some things are good to do when you’re in stress about rebuilding your kingdoms and dealing with some new foe in form of a skillful wicked witch. Time for lovely distraction. Or did it happen even earlier? Okay, maybe better not think about it at all *rolleyes*
¯\_(?????? ?)_/¯