I loved seeing emma and snow co-awesoming. I felt really bad for young regina, rumple seemed particularly cruel, even if it was all for a purpose. I am once again in awe at the sheer length and complexity rumple puts into his plots: teaching cora, ‘saving’ regina from cora, tutoring regina, purposefully dashing her hopes to push her off the edge and keep her reason for hating snow (how many times has he kept regina from satisfying her revenge, by keeping snow charming together etc.) just to have someone to release the curse, ALL to get back to his son. immense. Snarky jefferson was awesome. I celebrated the victor-y of the frankenstein theory. It was just amazing to have all types and people of power- rumple, regina, frankenstein, and jefferson all in the same room. When daniel came back, I really enjoyed their one second of joy, it was one of the least cop-out ways of bringing someone back, and specifically because shows that bring people back from the dead end up jumping the shark, I was (sorry) a bit relieved when he died again. It was important for regina to let go. Rambling, so I’ll stop, but I think this was a good episode.