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This was an “okay” episode. I give it a 6/10
Liked:
Gothel is intriguing and I am interested in what she is up to
Lucy is woken up, so that is not spread out too much and we still have the danger of the curse in affect
Rumple and Nook working together is actually appealing to me
Zelena’s one liners while way too contrived were still very amusing and made me laugh
I also like Nook’s advice to Zelena about not having to have magic to save her daughter but just to show her how much she loved her. I think they were going with Zelena/Robyn and Tremaine/Ivy parallel but unfortunately they fell short.
Mixed/Disliked:
Tremaine/Ivy: I really wanted and needed an emotional pay off with these two, and I guess we kind of got one but it felt unsatisfactory. I think this would have worked better if Tremaine had come to the conclusion that she was so busy saving one daughter that she did not see the daughter right in front of her before the death scene. The emotional pay off would have been right after they got out of the well or even before they got out of the well and then she could have sacrificed herself at the end of the episode. The way they did it, felt like she could not figure this out until her daughter was going to die, that is not a good emotional pay off this is just a very bad mother’s guilt and the sacrifice therefore was diminished to guilty feelings also.
The high heel shoe hit perfectly to lower the rope? The rope was lowered and Tremaine decides to put her hands in it and be lifted up by Gothel? Really writers you need to do better than that!
Acting or Writing or whatever was very stunted in scenes and actually really bad. It just seemed that some scenes were completely flat and uninspiring. The scene in EF between Regina and Zelena had none of the normal zip it was bland, most of the scenes at the hospital were blah, Any scene with Anna was badly done. I am not sure what it was but not good.