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The girl needs enough screentime to interact with the friends she theoretically has made. I’m still mad that they didn’t let her say goodbye to Anna and see that she was okay. And the chemistry with her and Henry in the tiny moments they’ve shared was so beautiful…those characters SHOULD be family. Charming and Hook have both got reasons to care about her, and history with her. Everyone else is on forgotten character island that she’s befriended, but it’s ridiculous how shunted to the side she’s been (even allowing for the pregnancy this half-season).
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As for rankings…S2 was when I became absolutely enthralled, though I was watching from the start…(FB recently gave me a memories from 2012 posting on how it was almost Once time…)
I liked the Frozen arc because I loved the portrayals of the characters.
And any arc where Belle isn’t entirely asleep is a good arc as far as I’m concerned.
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1) What was your favorite episode of S5B?
–Her Handsome Hero (Belle centrics almost always win for me, but also, it seemed–for one episode–to add some depth to her character, something that’s been sorely lacking in many episodes where things tend to just reset these days.)2) What was your least favorite episode of S5B?
–Last Rites. It was stupid to kill Robin, and then bring back Hook via Deus Ex. It’s angered and saddened the fandom with no positive results, no more love for Hook than he already had, and no character development for anyone but Regina (who, granted, is doing fun things with it). Stupider was the missed opportunity to really explore the Zeus/Hades relationship and actually give Robin some plot before killing him off.3) What did you think of Hades and the Underworld?
–Hades was brilliant (though the blue hair didn’t quite fit). I enjoyed every moment of him on screen. The writers failed to give him consistent motives, though, and that weakened the arc. They also missed some major opportunities to show why Gold didn’t like being there and compel Regina to deal with her past head-on–yes, she dealt with her parents, and that was awesome, but Peasant #917’s presence there on her account was barely nodded to. Also, more time with Pan would have been good–it felt like we didn’t get enough of his story in the Underworld, nor was Gold given any further motive to do him in completely. That took away from their farewell in Storybrooke, where Gold’s killing Pan had a beautifully ambiguous effect–now it was just hatred. Some hint as to how things had played off in the Underworld before would have helped make the final death more impactful.4) What was your favorite and least favorite moment?
–The most magical moment I think was actually when the coins from the fountain started raining on the Charmings. So I’m going with that for favorite.
–Least favorite was Belle putting herself under the sleeping curse, because while I understood she needed maternity leave, it felt like they’d undone all the character growth of the previous episode and sacrificed the opportunity for Belle and Gold to work together to save their child, as well as the chance for Belle to get any closure on anything this season. But big second-least for killing Robin pointlessly and then bringing back Hook equally pointlessly (no, I didn’t want Hook to go away, but it hurts the story and the fandom the way it played out so far).5) We had a lot of old favorite (and least favorite) characters return this arc; which character did you most like seeing? Who do you wish we saw?
–Cora by far stole the show whenever she was on.
–So glad we got to see more of Moe and more of Gaston.
–Wish we could have had time to really explore Pan a bit more. He came off flat, especially with most of his previous story so long ago.6) Thing you’re most looking forward to in S6?
–The Rumbelle plot arc could be AMAZING (or awful, you never can tell with those two…the actors know how to pull off almost anything, but the writers seem clueless anymore as to how to write them).
–Also more of the steampunky Island of Forgotten Characters. They actually brought it into the show and I’m still giggling.7) Overall grade and final thoughts on S5B?
–I give it a B. There were missed opportunities, and some awful dropped storylines, and a bit of character assassination, but overall…they managed at moments to recapture parts of the show I fell in love with, and they at least made some effort to get continuity with past events (if not magical rules consistency, which they seem to have dropped altogether). Belle had some powerful, beautiful moments, forgotten as she was half the time, and Rumbelle will always make my heart melt (he had Pandora’s box all tucked up in the passenger seat on his overcoat!). To get an A, they would have needed a better reason to bring Hook back than “just because” and actual closure to the Camelot storyline.Keeper of Belle's Gold magic, sand dollar, cloaks, purple FTL outfit, spell scroll, library key, copy of Romeo and Juliet, and cry-muffling pillow, Rumple's doll, overcoat, and strength, and The Timeline. My spreadsheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6r8CySCCWd9R0RUNm4xR3RhMEU/view?usp=sharing
I think he doesn’t ACTUALLY need both but I think he may believe he does. He tried TLK and presumably he expected it might work…so all that stuff that Emma said may be the writers telling US what Rumple believes right now, too.
I still think it’s because he can’t let go of the Darkness yet, but maybe he’s beginning to think it’s because he’s lost Belle’s love.
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I think it absolutely parallels losing Bae and Belle’s attempt to keep the memory stone. But I don’t think it shows him choosing power OVER Belle. He needed both to get Belle back. It was the wrong choice, but if he’d had the slightest reason to think the box was in more danger of being taken than the stone (which had already been stolen from him one and a half times at that point), then he would have gone for the box, no question.
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Possibly my favorite twist of the whole season. Loved it. And the reveal was very S1/S2…
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Oh, we’ve separated them out, okay.
Well…I really loved this finale pair, actually. Not because it was exceptionally great, but because it felt like it was really going back to S1/S2 and was very character-driven–with Henry, Emma, Regina, and Gold’s characters driving it, as it should be.
Yes, Belle was absent, but I couldn’t help swooning over Gold’s gentle treatment of her box, all nestled up in his overcoat on the passenger seat…
Henry’s being stupid, but if his family would COMMUNICATE with him…
And Regina. I never was an Evil Regal, but Lana earned all the awards for her performance.
Some slight discontinuity with how certain magics work (yay blood magic locator, but…) and I’m annoyed with how they concluded Camelot without actually concluding it (Dopey’s still a tree, and does ANYONE care about Guinevere?). But overall…yay Onceness!
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Maybe Violet doesn’t want to go home and leave Henry? Stopping magic would allow her to stay in the same realm; she found Camelot boring.
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Yay Rumbelle is part of the plot even if Belle isn’t 🙂
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Well, he let Regina believe she was designing things in the curse, but he was always pulling the strings.
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