Rating: 10/10
Best episode all season long! This was it, everything I hoped and more, this was it! Barbra Hershey, Rebecca Mader, and Lana Parrilla sold this episode for what it was worth, making their scenes the most powerful OUAT has ever done…I haven’t cried this much since 5×12 with Regina and Henry Sr!
Liked:
Everything…
Young Regina and Young Zelena playing dress up, all sisterly, and what not!
Proof that magic can be inherited through bloodline, hence Young Regina/Zelena magic.
The Regina and Zelena flashback and how it parallels present day.
James and David finally confronting one another and having it out once and for all!
Cruella! “Why is everything always in the woods with you people!” This is so true if you think about it!
Cora genuinely apologizing to both of her daughters!
Cora actually confessing that she loves her daughters, and hugging them both in the end!
Cora making it over to the happier side of the light, wherever it is, I rest knowing she’s finally at peace and happy!
Regina and Zelena gaining back their memories!
Regina and Zelena hugging one another, and Regina encouraging Zelena to go be with her man!
And did I mention that Cora was able to truly be redeemed in this episode, and allowed to cross over to the happy side of paradise…that last moment where she said goodbye to her daughters is on my top three list of greatest moments in OUAT History!
Dislike: (Nothing major, just small nitpicks)
Emma’s lie detector off again, she couldn’t tell that wasn’t her father?
Robin Hood trying to shoot a dead man…really Robin? Really? Season 3 Robin was smarter than this!
But Emma….come on! Season 1 you would have pieced that together in five minutes! How could you not tell?!!
"If you go as far as you can see...you will then see enough to go even further." - Finn Balor