Reply To: FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE MOMENTS IN 5×12 Souls of the Departed

[onceaholic]

8/10 (The first passing score I have given in a long time!).

Loved LOVED LOVED this episode!

It had a ton of Regina in it (Evil and Reformed) so I enjoyed it immensely! It’s been a while since we have had so much of her on our screens.

 

Anyway…

 

LOVED

-Regina, and the Evil Queen

-The hints at Regina being key to saving everyone in the underworld. I really hope that she gets to make up for what she has done by helping the people she killed, and takes a huge leap forward towards her redemption. It would take Graham to make the storyline complete, though, and I have a feeling that he won’t even get a mention.

-Henry Jr meeting Henry Sr.

-Cora as the miller’s daughter again.

-Bandit Snow

-That we got an explanation as to how Cora stole Henry.

-The casting for Hades. You need a strong actor to be able to go head to head with BH and be the more menacing one, and he was.

-That Regina got closure over her father, and the moments between them.

-Robbie Kay’s acting was better than it was 2 years ago, but I was still glad that he showed up for only a short time. It’s a shame because there is so much they could do with this character in the Underworld, and the actor doesn’t have the ability to pull it off.

-More mumbling from Emma and Neil. I really don’t like inarticulate characters or actors.

 

MIXED

-Ooh Jiminy you dirty pervert! Wait, why did no-one swat him like the bug he is for that?

-No Zelena, but we will get plenty more of her later.

-The red filter. I realise it is supposed to be the underworld but I found it irksome. Blue would have been better. Still, it is less annoying than the Neverland set.

-Hades’ blue flamed hair. Too Disney-esque.

 

DISLIKED

 

-EQ killing more people, such as the joker, for sport. In 4B she said that she only killed people as collateral damage in her pursuit of SW, but this is another example of someone who was not related to her search yet was killed.

-EQ is increasingly being written as a comical spoiled brat. Still menacing, but not as much as she was in season 1. Lana did the best with what was thrown at her, but there is no saving bad writing.

-No goodbye scene between Henry and Neil.

QUESTIONS

I wonder which fairy Rumple might need to summon. The black one or the blue one? I am hoping the Black Fairy.