3x 11 GOING HOME — FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE MOMENTS

[arnabanarna]

Likes & Dislikes

Enjoyed the goodbye scene at the town line. Very emotional.

Snow’s pep talk with Emma. Happy endings don’t always look how we think they will- their happy ending with Emma- the time they spent together as a family, the lives she was able to touch in her short span in Storybrooke.

I liked that Henry was able to see Mary Margaret as Snow.

Granny sniffing Henry out. But why was he not at the well?

Blue’s dialogue. Hinting at the origin of Henry’s book??? their story will “reveal itself in time.”

Hook has chemistry with Emma and Tinkerbell. Enjoyed his farewell scene with Emma.

I like that Pan knew his magic cloud would be green.  Someone please refresh my memory…has Rumple’s cloud  always been Red, or is it red and purple at different times? Anyways, like that we’re adding to the color scheme.

Set decorators always give us plenty to take in. I enjoyed hunting Emma’s apartment for references to Storybrooke. I miss the easter eggs.

Dislikes:

Mixed feelings over the way Pan was written as a villain and his relationship with Rumple. Adult Pan seems flighty and careless but not evil. Child Pan is malicious, bullying and full of contempt for Rumple. Wasn’t totally surprised by the mini speech he gave, telling Rumple that he was a drain on him. But looking back on previous epis wondering why they wrote in the scene with a tearful eyed Pan abandoning Rumple to the Shadow in Neverland? Spare me the crocodile tears Pan.

Can we please give Neal some dialogue? A storyline? Michael Raymond James will you please emote? Did he have a goodbye scene with Emma? If so it must not have been very memorable.

The Rumple death scene felt anticlimatic to me. I feel like I’m waiting for permission to mourn from show’s writers. They used to be very clear about deaths. Once you die, there is no coming back. Then they introduced wraiths and shadows and now it seems less certain. Why did his body disappear? Where’d he go?

Disliked the way the curse/Emma’s new journey was written. SO MANY RULES. I don’t feel they did a good job of explaining why it was “not an option” for Emma to return to EF. Writing felt a little dicey.

 

 

[kfchimera]

Overall I felt disappointed by this episode because I felt that things could be written better.

Likes-

Regina remembering the cuff, but most of all Regina giving the gift to Emma.  Regina’s character has grown, but not changed so much that it felt like a rewrite or retcon both in terms of what she says or how others react to her.  Unlike with some others but her cuff comment gives me hope the writers will address certain things.

Rumple choosing not to cut off his hand to use magic.  He found strength in Bae and Belle’s love enough to do what needed to be done.

The way Neal had a moment of pride that the good man in his father won out over the curse, mixed in his grief  that froze him for a moment longer than the others, and choked back the tears. 

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Neal saying he will see Emma and Henry again, expressing hope, despite the raw hopeless panic on Emma’s face at losing her family.

Seeing Emma and Henry having cocoa in the apartment.  A year of day offs for Emma.

Tink getting a moment to shine.

 

Dislikes:

The flashbacks.  The “skindeep” one would have preferred a scene in present day, and the NL one made no sense since it sounded like Hook just told Smee about the dagger, but Tink was newly arrived on NL even though she got there after meeting newly married Regina.  Why waste time on Smee?

Sneaky Fairy pops up conveniently again–with plot contrived wand number two–the Black wand.

Pan’s cruel words to Rumple–yet another person who tells Rumple he never loved him rather than that he stopped, even though it seemed like he just did not love him well enough earlier.That no one comforted or seemed to notice Belle–her complete breakdown made sense and provided a contrast to Neal’s shutdown, but of the two you would think the other actors (like fans) would  look at the person on the ground, versus the one standing.  Emma looks over at Neal to acknowledge what others might miss, and makes sense Neal doesn’t notice Belle in his battle with his own emotions.

“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

[arnabanarna]

I like the number on the door of Emmas appartment 311 in black and green.

 

@Tiararose, what’s the significance? All I can think of when I see 311 is the 90’s band!

Keeper of Regina's blackened sole special.

[RumplesGirl]

tiara_rose wrote: I like the number on the door of Emmas appartment 311 in black and green.

@Tiararose, what’s the significance? All I can think of when I see 311 is the 90′s band!

It was episode 311

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

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