Disliked: Okay…let’s not start back up this whole Rumple vs Hook because at this point…you two are borderline family! Just go out, have some coffee, maybe some brunch and talk this thing out.
–Hook and Rumple get a bit ol’ “ugh” from me. Like, yes Hook has a right to be upset but Rumple also has a right to protect his family, just like Hook is! Just get beyond this, you two and stop with the attempted murder. Final Thought: This should be the series finale. It should absolutely end here, without the incoming curse.
I agree with both of you about the continuing Hook vs. Rumple storyline and frankly the whole everyone vs. Rumple storyline. Rumple has a right to defend his family and even to be stupid about it (I don’t trust his mother has his best interests at heart at all) just like everyone else. Haven’t The Charmings and Hook done some dumb and terrible things in the name of love/family themselves? If these screwballs could just have an honest conversation over coffees and bad lasagna at Granny’s than this show could’ve been over years ago.
If Snow can forgive Regina for murdering her father, she can forgive Rumple for manipulating Regina to cast the curse.
If David can forgive Hook for murdering his father, he can forgive Rumple.
Both Hook and Regina as people who have been forgiven SO VERY VERY MUCH, should be able to forgive Rumple.
Really if you look at the people Rumple has actually killed on the show, the only one that directly effects the main cast is Milah and knowing the full story it’s kind of understandable that he kills her when he does. Note that I did not say it was ok. Murder is never ok. But I can understand the reasons behind that one. It’s Charming killing Percival that always mystifies me. Really the whole ‘hero’ side of town is filled with murdering murderers who murder anyway.
And yes that end song could’ve absolutely been the end of the show – if you fill in the gap in between the wedding and everything that happened before it with the missing plotlines and resolutions we still desperately need in order to make that ending feel like a satisfying one.
So Snow you had Belle scourging Gold’s shop for your wedding dress for you and nobody bothered to invite her, yet again I can totally see Rumple giving up his power and then taking Belle and Gideon and going anywhere but Storybrooke. Belle you have no friends here unless they need something from you.
Exactly.
Plus didn’t Rumple say Gideon and Belle were asleep in the last episode? Does that mean Snow broke in to search the shop or did Belle just happen to wake up in time to oblige her?
As for the songs I loved them! So much better than expected.
And oh gee once again The Charmings are happy to turn Rumple over to Hook to be ‘skinned’, but Snow can’t bring herself to execute Regina who actually murdered her father and tried to murder her… Rumple actually helped The Charmings! Even if it was for his own purposes. Hero logic escapes me as it usually does.
Other than that I loved the past flashbacks with all the singing and I thought having Emma break a curse with song in the present dove-tailed nicely with the flashbacks.
The drawback with the present is The Black Fairy/Stiltskins vs. The Charmings plot …if you’d asked me eight days ago if The Black Fairy was a great villain, I would’ve said yes, but after last week’s episode I’m utterly at sea with what they’re trying to do with her. Is she a loving mother who tried a little too hard to protect her son and ended up going crazy (or something) after unknown centuries in the weird dark time-warp realm or is she just an evil villain who needs to be cut down for the good of all? Am I supposed to feel bad for her like I do Rumple because she was once (and maybe still is underneath all those layers of dark magic) a good person or should I think of her like Malcolm as a person who may have been happy at one time, but was never (as far as I can tell) good?
The writers kind of took the teeth out of The Black Fairy last week and I’m struggling to view her as a serious threat now.
But a great episode over all. Easily one of the most enjoyable in the whole series.