28 Days of Once Upon A Time

Day 24- Least Favourite Episode Overall

Ariel- Snow annoyed me so much in this episode, in flashback and present day. The whole Snow forgets she’s on the run and drops everything to help set Ariel, who’s she’s literally just met, up with a guy she met once cliché. It wouldn’t be so bad if Snow was doing it from the shadows because she is in hiding but nope, Snow just strolls into a royal ball wearing a frilly dress and nobody recognises her despite her being a princess in hiding.

The present day stuff is worse because Snow shows a complete disregard for Emma’s feelings. First she blurts out that Neal’s alive because SHE didn’t want to keep the secret despite Hook and Charming agreeing to verify the validity of Pan’s info about Neal THEN tell Emma about Neal being on Neverland. Hook and Charming weren’t not going to tell Emma about Neal if it was true, so there is no reason why Snow couldn’t have kept her mouth shut for a little while instead of blurting it out the moment Emma walks into the scene.

Secondly, Snow in the echo cave, could she be anymore insensitive? How mean is it to tell the daughter you recently reunited with after giving her up as a baby who has abandonment and trust issues that the relationship you currently share is “not what I wanted”, where the reason you want another baby is because your first baby is now too old to play mommy to as if it’s Emma’s fault for growing up alone. Emma telling her secret to Neal proves that the whole cave doesn’t have to hear it just one other person, so there’s no reason why Snow couldn’t tell Charming her secret quietly so Emma doesn’t hear instead of making Emma feel like crap then continuing to go on about it far longer than you need to.

Second place would be Good Form because Hook’s transformation from upstanding navy guy to pirate was too quick a turnaround to be believable. It felt like there was a step missing, it should’ve been the start of Hook’s descent into piracy not the sole reason for it. It wasn’t clear whether the duke was genuinely evil or if he was misinformed about the dreamshade and genuinely thought it was a medicinal plant, in which case the fridge horror consequences of Hook’s actions are dire, all because his brother was stupid enough to test whether or not a plant was poisonous by deliberately scratching himself with it.

Third place would be Selfless, Brave and True because the reveal of what happened to August needed to be earlier in the season, by 218 and with no August after Broken, people stopped caring about his character. Also the reveal that GOAT were up to no good and were getting it on secretly was too much.