1) Sorry to see you go Grimm.
2) I do want to touch on something Grimm brought up which is the whole “a family that loves me” bit. There seems to be a template for every seasonal villain arc. 1) Villain will be connected to Henry’s family somehow (in this case, Emma’s foster mother) 2) Villain will be misunderstood 3) Villain will be looking for love and going about it in the wrong way. Now I know that evil isn’t born it’s made is a big deal to them and back in S1 and even S2 that was a pretty great idea and message. But this is becoming the same song sung over and over. Pan (and Jafar in WL) were the exceptions which is, IMO, what made them so fascinating and refreshing. Now that they’ve got their template it’s a matter of filling in the blanks and they tend to fill in the blanks with an overdose of shiny! So: Snow Queen is misunderstood villain who wants a family that loves her and is connected to Henry through Emma. Now they fill in the blanks by inserting as much Frozen as possible. I will say…this is the first episode without a Frozen flashback and it was really nice, even if the flashbacks themselves were nothing new.
#3 still applied to Jafar. Then he killed the guy.
I disagree. Jafar was lying about actually wanting his father’s love once his father had tried to kill him. Jafar really did want to just straight up murder his father after he tricked the Sultan into thinking he loved Jafar.