6 X 10 WISH YOU WERE HERE – What were your favorite and least favorite moments

HAPPY ONCE DAY EVERYONE!!! Enjoy it,, its the last for months.

Im Exited, happy and a bit worried, cant wait to see this one 😀

GENERAL: *sigh* I don’t know. It was fine, I guess. It has the same problems as a lot of episodes this arc where there are good ideas and some good executions on plot, but a lot of it rings hollow because it’s so flimsy. The AU world could have been really interesting if it had been more thought out, taking the history of the show and the universe into consideration. Instead the AU didn’t make a lick of sense and it felt like bad fanfiction in which the writers have things happens simply because they wish it, not because it lines up with any sort of consistent themes or world building.

Rating: 7/10

LIKED

–“What are you gonna do…throw a fireball at yourself?”

–“In this case, the cliche is true. I was born for this.” I always like when the show mentions its own mythic nature.

–LOL, Appletini

–Smart writing: Regina is also master of the lamp because she and the EQ are the same person.

–Emma humming like a crazy lunatic person. Both hilarious and cringe-worthy.

–Pilot callbacks all over the place. I have nostalgia pain.

–I like that, in a way, Henry makes Emma believe once more. That relationship should always be at the center of Emma’s story.

–“Nothing makes sense. Anything is possible.” It’s like the most literal description of this show since S3B I’ve ever heard.

MIXED

–Is Jasmine just randomly shouting “help me” until someone in the Ghost Town comes to find her…?

–How did the EQ get the lamp? Where were Jasmine and the Aladdin-lamp living; at last check they were at Snowing’s loft.

–Ok, Neal is still Henry’s father in the AU–yes, GOOD. But how is this possible?? It’s not even the tiniest bit possible if all the events of the universe stayed the same until the casting of the curse!

–Rumple locked up and as crazy as a loon. Just like the Pilot (but seriously, how can Emma have a son with Bae while Rumple is still locked up as the Dark One!! Why would he even be locked up if Bae had made his way back to the EF and lived there long enough to fall in love with Emma and have a child?)

–The Dementor turned the EQ into Nagini! (what the heck…?)

–The Black Fairy took Gideon. Soooo, she’s the next Big Bad. On the one hand, cool. On the other, Jafar is…doing what? His point this year was…what?

DISLIKED

–Yeah that sword was nowhere near the EQ’s face when Emma managed to slice her up.

–Normally the show’s costumes are on point, but man Aladdin’s genie outfit is horrid.

–This AU world doesn’t make a lick of sense. How did Nealfire die? Zelena isn’t here to trick him into turning the key in the Vault and Neal wouldn’t have had any need since Rumple never killed Pan, vanished, and the Curse was reverse-cast! I get that they don’t want to exclude Jared Gilmore, but this is frustrating.

–Why can’t Rumple use blood magic to find Gideon like how he found Baelfire?

–Regina literally runs up to dwarves and asks where Emma is without even pausing to question which type of world she’s in. She knows it can’t be present; if it’s the past, no dwarf is going to trust her; and if it’s a reality when Emma wasn’t the Savior, then it follows that she’s a defeated EQ and, again, no one would trust her!

–Rumple has a magic bean that can Regina and Emma back to Storybrooke. Ok, what exactly was S1 about cause I really don’t remember [/sarcasm]

–There’s a literal KEY TO THE KINGDOM??? What nonsense is that?

–RIP AU Snowing!

–Ok, Neal is still Henry’s father in the AU–yes, GOOD. But how is this possible?? It’s not even the tiniest bit possible if all the events of the universe stayed the same until the casting of the curse!

Well, if everything stayed the same, he still went to Neverland. In the original timeline, Pan dropped Bae off in the Lw/oM, so he could meet Emma and conceive the Truest Believer (Henry). Since she was never taken to the Lw/oM, he dropped him off in the EF, instead.

I did not hate this episode which is good because the last few I have. I give it a 8/10

Liked:

David actually had a independent role in the episode.  I was actually really impressed that he was able to out maneuver the EQ and get the lamp, of course his wish was beyond naive.  David be specific!

I liked the AU world, and I know it does not make sense, but I am going to assume that it is like a dream world so it does not have to make sense.  So if we assume this is Emma’s dream world that means Bae was in her dream and Hook was not, I like that.

Loved Rumple and Regina scenes in the dream world, very season 1 feels. Actually I loved all the throw backs to season 1 they were great.

I am not a huge Regina/Robin fan, but I loved seeing him again and I was really happy for Regina she totally deserves love

Dark Fairy is going to be the next big bad

Did Gideon turn EQ into an Agrabah Viper?  If so, maybe Gideon is Jafar in disguise

Rumple taking off the cuff, and telling Belle that this is no longer about them but about the safety of their son.  That is the Rumple we know and love

Loved that Regina wakes Emma up because she won’t hurt Henry and is willing to die instead of harming him.  This is what the show is supposed to be about, Family.

Mixed:

David’s wish, wow dude you can wish for anything and that is what you come up with

Still don’t care about Jasmine and Aladdin but maybe I no longer have to as they poofed away to Agrabah. I wonder if we will see them again

I am confused about Gideon/Morpheus or whoever he is.  So are we saying he becomes evil because he was taken to an evil place and sped up his childhood and raised by the dark fairy?  Is this what she does with all the children.  Did anyone catch that Rumple stated that she was a dark shadow (is she the original shadow of Neverland?)

Disliked:

So is that the end of the EQ?  If that is how they end it, I will be very upset.  They need to reintegrate her with Regina and Regina needs to accept all parts of herself anything else is a cop out

Belle was still asleep when she went to dream world, her subconscious traveled. But Emma and Regina–their very bodies and beings–traveled to this AU.

Not every time, unless she was able to sleep during labor, but I guess her subconscious did travel so maybe Belle was daydreaming? I don’t know,  a dream world is the only way to make it make sense.