Overall, I think I liked it better than I thought I would, but to me this was one of the weakest.
6.5/10
Liked:
– Regina and Zelena in the diner. Rebecca Mader is crushing it right now.
– Greg still continues to be a great Hades.
– Ruby is back
– Belle trying to lay down some ground rules on using the dark magic. I enjoy it when Belle takes a stand and uses the dagger when she feels she needs to. But I also liked that she did what was necessary and tossed Gaston in the river of lost souls. The Rumbelle relationship is making some strides.
– Emma and Regina using magic together.
Mixed:
– Gaston was ok. I’m glad he actually wasn’t the greatest guy in the world. But ultimately the flashbacks didn’t matter in the grand scheme of the show, which seems pretty typical of Belle episodes these days.
Disliked:
– The dream sequence for Emma. Like why can she all of a sudden have dreams that foreshadow stuff? We all know Snow wasn’t going to die, so everything just seemed utterly pointless.
– Hook continues to be slightly ungrateful and I don’t get why the writers are doing this.
– Didn’t get to see Belle’s mom.
– Why did Hades want Gaston to go overboard? He obviously knew Rumple would defeat Gaston, so then why offer Belle the choice to void the deal for her baby? This just didn’t make sense to me. I get he wants things to continue to decay, but was he really that confident that it would be Belle that tossed Gaston into the river and not Rumple?
– So are they insinuating that Belle started the Ogre Wars?