5×01 “The Dark Swan” what are your FAVORITE and LEAST favorite moments?

[Slurpeez]

Things I didn’t like: While I enjoyed certain parts of the episode like the Arthurian legend, the plot points were mostly very dull and repetitive. There was major retconning of of how the dark one curse works. Another amnesia curse? Really?! *eye roll* Hook’s harebrained idea of releasing Zelena and endangering Henry would’ve backfired had it not been for Regina. I don’t think Emma would appreciate her boyfriend endangering her son’s life again, but of course, she’s left in the dark. Hook skirted Emma’s question of how they got to the EF.

My favorite thing: The things I enjoyed the most about this episode were Regina’s cunning and snark. As usual, her lines were best written and true to her character, as well as delivered very well by Lana.

Prediction: Moreover, I see Regina becoming the new savior, replacing Emma. Knowing that these writers are huge fans of Star Wars, I wouldn’t be surprised if Regina takes up the mantel of savior and uses light magic to neutralize the dark magic enveloping Emma, thereby brining balance to the “force” of magic. Emma said to Regina: “Now save me as I saved you,” which sounded like foreshadowing to me. After 6 weeks, they all came back to SB, and Emma said there was no savior in town. One can infer that in order to set Emma free, there needs to be a new savior. The fact that Regina was dressed in red (the color heavily associated with savior Emma) points towards Regina becoming the next hero. I think that could be what Merlin’s prophesy predicts, (“When the light becomes dark and the dark becomes light, a new savior will arise to end the night”). Also in support of my inference are clues from the past several seasons: Regina was willing to die to save Henry and the town from the fail-safe, Regina broke Snow’s dark curse with TLK and used light magic to stop Zelena in S3, and Regina’s hero blood is what Henry used to rewrite history in S4. Regina is the new Emma.

[larrym04]

Something occurred to me…  When has Emma seen Rumple as the Dark One?  Hasn’t she only seen him as Mr Gold?

So when he does pop up as her sort of Dark One conscience, I don’t think she should have recognize him.  I mean, ya Mr Gold and RumpleDO are the same person, but I think they’re pretty dissimilar.  No?

Also, the “plot hole” many are complaining about that Hook has a potion to take a heart – everyone is *assuming* its from when EQ sent him to get Cora’s heart… but what if there’s another event that we haven’t seen yet?  Just a thought.

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