I kind of expect a very slow week as we know a huge part of 18 will be built around flashbacks for Eva/Cora/Leo –and possibly Rumple. Given that RC hasn’t yet filmed very much that we’ve heard about, and what we predict would be a slow-burning arc for him since Rumple’s”dead”–this could be where they’ll give him some bulky screentime and the flashbacks might dominate the episode, with very little happening present day.
I’m trying to remember Miller’s Daughter, but that was also Barbara Hershey’s last episode, so I felt both halves of the narrative were given equal weight, but this time around, the extra- special guest star character is only in the past (not that Mader isn’t a special guest star too….but Rose is a one-shot for this season).
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass