No.
Just…no.
I have so many issues and am so generally confused. This episode was a mess. Just an absolute mess.
LIKED
–Snowing tricking Arthur. I’m glad they had a plan all along; it’s nice seeing them work together.
–The pony is smarter than the pirate.
–Bobby was really good this episode
–Dreamcatchers. Always going to be linked to SF. Sorry, A and E but you don’t get to dissociate that.
MIXED
–Merida’s back. And in jail? She seems so superfluous to this story. Really—she’s going to make someone brave??
DISLIKED
–Bad child actors trying to do forced accents. Though, granted, they had terrible lines to work with.
–Clunky dialogue like Little! Guinevere telling Arthur to follow his heart. Yeah, find me an eight year old who speaks like that and has a concept of what fate and destiny are.
–Everyone opens the Dark One’s Vault and no one dies. EXCEPT NEAL. Yeah, no. This was bull. I don’t care..it was bull. What about the price of magic? What about messing with dark forces? Yeah, you keep telling me that Neal’s death was because he messed with forces he didn’t understand. Bull. Guinevere, Arthur, Lance, Snow and Charming all went into that vault, opened it and everything and *nothing* happened.
–WHAT IS THIS TIMELINE. Omg…five years ago…what?
–Arthur roofied Guinevere into loving him I will bet you dollars to donuts that it’s never going to come up again. Seriously. This show has such a CONSENT problem. It’s makes me livid that the writers don’t realize how they’ve cast some of their characters and their actions with all the lack of consent and rape over tones.
–Emma’s entire storyline now is about kissing Hook. Remember when she used to talk to Mary Margaret and Henry? Remember that? Good times.
–Why is Emma still wearing that white gown?
–Why is Hook in a pirate’s outfit all the time!!! Everyone else got Camelot clothing. Oh, right. ABC mandated that Colin has to be dressed as a pirate.
–Rumple can create portals now!!! Guys. WHAT WAS SEASON ONE ABOUT BECAUSE I HAVE AMENESIA
–Rumple keeps his danger in a jungle?! How? Why? What?
–The gauntlet was supposed to come from Rumple’s trip to Camelot. So again..what??