I liked it!
I think I love Cora more. She had to rip out her own heart because of losing her baby. Maybe she abandoned it to give it its best chance also since Rumple wanted her or because someone stole her. But she couldn’t go on with losing her baby and Rumple’s love.
The only thing that bothers me about that is TimeLine… When did Cora have time to sleep with Rumple, have another affair and get married? How did she hide that pregnancy? It doesn’t make sense.
I also think its beautiful that Regina gave her heart to Robin.
Its also kind of beautiful and sad that Zelena is just doing everything for a second chance. I feel bad for her. I think she’s an amazing actress. I didn’t like her at first but now she feels really convincing for her role. Alot of the ideas the writers threw out would’ve made a cheesy sequel to the original, like getting an unknown sister, having yet again the sister’s revenge story and Emma dating a flying monkey but they’re doing a good job of making past failed ideas in bad movie sequels or cheesy comic books good.
I actually really like Walsh now. If Walsh was genuinely in love with Emma in New York I wouldn’t be opposed to the idea of them getting back together. The actor had a really great presence, I don’t think he’s not good enough for Emma. He’s interesting. I want to know more about his story. Plus, If Emma ends up with Walsh it gets rid of any predictable love story line. I find it cheap that the writers negated the Tamara and Neal relationship for her to not have loved Neal at all. It would’ve added more complexity if Tamara did have feelings for Neal and there was a part in the relationship that did mean something. I think the writers have chance to redeem themselves. I hope they find it with Walsh and Emma. I don’t like cheap cop outs.
But I think the Neal Fans are right as much as i hate to admit it. If Zelena succeeds in time travel Neal may end up with a second chance at life. I want to see Zelena win so I can see what she’s really going to do. Unlike Pan’s ultimate darkest bluff not coming true. But at the same time, I don’t want a cheap cop out. You can’t change the past makes things interesting because you have to accept all the deaths and bad things about these characters past. I think that’s a beautiful struggle in telling these emotionally rewarding stories. But just completely getting rid of all of that makes me nervous. OUAT created great stories and now that could all changed and any deaths that happened are cheap. The dead need to stay dead for it to mean something. With the exception of Rumple and Pinocchio because their deaths have different rules than regular mortals. Pinocchio is an inanimate object made out of wood and the previous dark one stated the terms of how the dark one would be able to die. I’m okay with their resurrection because their loopholes were stated at the beginning of their existence so it doesn’t feel cheap. Death for Rumple and Pinocchio have a different meaning than it does for humans.
Also If Zelena has been after Regina’s heart the whole time she had a whole year to take it to make her life easier. Thoughts?