Quickie: I never notice the shirt in the presence if the Irish eye-emoting and entwined hand-hugging)
Not so quickie: I agree, surayya, this ultimately was much more about Emma than Regina. I do think, hidden among the insulting ridiculousness of Regina in character destroying Drama-Queen mode, that the deeper issue of Emma’s future handling of Hook Angst is being set up. Rather a “can’t see the forrest for the trees” writers’ syndrome that so often happens in an episode. The story telling often veers off the eye-rolling map when the writers want to go a little too far into foreshadowing “parallel” land. They temporarily toss one character under a double-decker bus while driving another character forward. And the theme of this season IS never giving up in those you love. That just screams hot mess…
Chaos and creativity often are annoying bed partners.
***Always in search of a good flock***