Tiny scenes are good, even tiny story arcs are good. But the overall picture is messy and aimless. I don’t get what the end game is.
That is EXACTLY how I feel, which is why I have been so frustrated. We are seeing glimpses of a much better show, but it still isn’t as coherent as it should be. With season one we knew the goal was to break the curse and so that was the overarching story, but this season we don’t really know what is going on except that Emma is trying to avoid an eventuality that apparently has to come true in some shape or form. Obviously defeating the Evil Queen as well, although there doesn’t seem to be too much focus on that. I would have thought they should have questioned if using the shears on Regina might have got rid of the queen?
Shouldn’t Hook be trapped inside Cora’s bubble which was relatively small?
A very good point, although it’s really confusing, because even if he was in the bubble shouldn’t these other characters be frozen?