Season 4a:
Favorite episode: The Snow Queen
Honorable Mentions: The Apprentice, Heroes and Villains
Favorite New Character Introduced: The Snow Queen
Honorable Mentions: The Apprentice, Little Bo Peep
Favorite Moment: Snow Queen sacrifices herself and joins her sisters in death
Honorable Mentions: Belle confronts Rumple and sends him out of storybrooke
Looking back on it, I still enjoyed this season more than most. I thought Elsa and Anna fit into the story quite nicely, and although it was a ratings grab, I thought it was done better than most people felt.
Season 4B:
Favorite Episode: Sympathy for the De Vil (hands down), Operation Mongoose
Favorite Character Introduced: Cruella de Vil
Favorite Moment: Emma killing Cruella, Emma being engulfed in the darkness, meeting the author
Season could have been so much better. I thought it was pretty weak for the most part. I did not like how Maleficient was done and I hated Ursula even more.
I thought the half season worked better for season 4 than it did with season 3 simply because it had overarching themes spread throughout. It had the sorcerer’s hat, the sorcerer’s mansion, Lily, the heroes vs. villains theme, the author. So in that sense because those things carried over, I thought it worked ok.