–Belle’s adventure with Merida. I’m all for female friends going on bonding adventures but there was no sense to this one. Why was Belle in the jail to begin with? Why did she bring a book? Why did Merida “choose” Belle (just because she carried a book? Why not kidnap Merlin if she needed magic? Belle herself does not have magic, just a freaking book)? Merida’s overly long information dump about her father (shock! Child feels responsible for a parent’s death!)
When I was watching the sneak peek I was trying to figure why Bell was there at all but as the scene when on I think Merlin knew that Merida would kidnap Belle. And if thats the case then he actually didn’t need help breaking Lancalot out he just needed Merida to see that Belle could help. Which actually brings me to my first mixed feeling about this episode.
Belle using magic: I love that we got to see some more of this side of Belle but considering that she actually hasn’t used that much magic before it might come acoss as a little OOC for some people. It felt more like a “This is what she could have been had the writers paid attention to her as apposed to something we know Belle could do.
Liked
The little moments, like Belle giving Merida the potion and then casually mentioning that she switch the potion with water.
Belle telling Rumple that she already knew why he left the Ogre war and why he injured himself.
Merlins voicemail – that was so funny, also it may have been just me but did anyone else get the feeling that Merlin wasn’t talking about Emma when he said that the Dark One had found him? I don’t know just a vibe I got.
Dislike
Rumple at the Town line saying that he didn’t leave the Ogre war for Bae. We know he did we watched it happen. I don’t care what A&E try to convince us Rumple did not run away from the Ogre war for himself.
But over all I liked the episode
Good always wins < That's just what Rumplestiltskin wants you to think Keeper of Belle's Theme Music, The Queen of Hearts Maze, Cora's Missing Heart,Tiny's Golden Harp