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The slogan of “when evil and good both do the right thing” — Ok, who is the stand in for evil here? Rumple? EQ? Gideon? Because the BF, who seemingly is the biggest evil on the block, didn’t exactly do anything right.
Yeah what the heck was that?
Seriously, if this is what the wanted to go with they could have found a better way to incorporate Jafar into the story given he wanted the same thing.
Everything that was Jafar, Aladdin, and Jasmine was a massive let down and you’re right; if the BF wanted to change the rules of magic then Jafar wold have been a key ally.
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Also, they were in Seattle. It said it on the screen and they showed the space needle.
Totally didn’t notice that. Well you can’t get further in the USA from Storybrooke, Maine than Seattle, WA.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Good question. Yes it did look like a person and it looked like something/someone Henry recognized.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So the opening scene in the Enchanted Forest WAS a flash forward of Henry and Lucy and not wish realm Henry after all? Well there goes that theory!
apparently?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Lucy had the real book there so she would have had to have gotten it from Henry. Whereas at the end she only had a hand drawn one.
Yes I thought it was really odd that her books switched. Hmm.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The biggest question is whether the Henry we saw in the first scene and the Henry we saw in the last scene were the same Henry. Like biblio mentioned, maybe that was Wish Realm Henry who had Lucy, and Lucy went to find our Henry now living in Seattle?
Yeah. If I were a betting girl, I’d say they aren’t the same now that I think about it.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"1) What was your favorite episode of S6B?
6×20 “The Song In Your Heart;”
I know it’s weird for me to say that since it’s the CS wedding episode, but I really did like invigorated and fresh feel. The songs were catchy, the plot was nonsense but at least it was entertaining. OUAT can do campy well.
Runner up: 6×19 “The Black Fairy”
2) What was your least favorite episode of S6B?
6×17 “Awake;”
All the horrible retcons that basically blew the premise of the show out of the water! The writers should be ashamed of themselves for going against everything that was core to this series. Snow and Charming woke up without Emma and Henry’s TLK because of a flower? Nope nope nope. I hated every single thing about that episode.
Runner up: 6×15 “A Wonderous Place”
3) There were many plot threads throughout all of S6B but which was your favorite?
I don’t really know. I liked pieces of Gideon’s plot; I enjoyed pieces of Emma’s (when it wasn’t all about Hook); and I liked parts of Regina’s. That’s the problem, though. Nothing stands out as clearly as, say, Emma trying to find Rumple’s son in S2. Everything is just okay in small chunks.
4) What were your favorite and least favorite moments?
Two of my favorite moments were Emma moments. 1) “Emma’s Theme” in the musical was really powerful and 2) Emma telling Henry, in the finale, that she wants to be the person who does believe. Both of those moments are really key to Emma’s character and I enjoyed both.
Least favorite? Too many to list! Any time there was a new plot device that was equally eye-roll worthy and head-desk worthy.
5) Should this have been the end of the series?
Having seen the finale, yes absolutely. Cut everything with Lucy and Henry and it’s a good ending to the series.
6) What would you like to see in S7?
A note from ABC that they changed their mind and OUAT ended with S6!
7) Final grade and thoughts on S6B?
It’s really hard to grade this arc since so the first several episodes were devoted to wrapping up last arc’s dangling threads: Charming’s father, the Evil Queen, Aladdin and Jasmine. The real story of 6B, Gideon and the Black Fairy, didn’t get properly off the ground until episode 16 so, in effect, we only had four episodes of Black Fairy plot before the big musical episode and then the finale. That’s simply not enough time to build a believable and coherent plot. Jamie Murray did good work as the Black Fairy, as did Giles Matthey with Gideon, but when you look back at the more well rounded villains, like Cora, the one thing the Black Fairy and Gideon didn’t have was time. It’s that haphazard approach I keep bringing up; if the Black Fairy is supposed to be the biggest and baddest evil in this universe, then she needed to built, explored, and fleshed out in more than just two flashbacks. I’m still not sure what her motivation for anything was; just because she’s “evil” and Emma’s good? How vague and asinine is that! Her reasoning can’t even be rooted in her son, Rumple, because she severed him from his Savior destiny when he was only a few weeks old. On top of a frustrating villain, the magical MacGuffins really ran amok this time around. Every single week there was a new one, each more eye-roll worthy than the last, the worst being the True Love Flower that awoke Snow and Charming in the middle of the original Cursed years, retconning a large portion of not just season one but the entire premise of the show. I have my typical complaints about out of character and anti-feminist moments from the likes of Emma (who really took a turn toward the horrifying with each new terrible outfit and overly clingy moment); some squicky moments from Belle who goes back and forth in terms of attitude about her husband more than any sane (or well written) woman should. This isn’t to say that there weren’t some good pieces here and there, though. The musical does stand out as a big shake up and invigorated the show, if only for an hour. The actors are mostly still hitting it out of the park, especially Robert Carlyle as Rumple in any scene he had with Gideon. It was also nice to see a lot of returning characters, probably for the last time, like Archie, the dwarves, Tink, Malcolm, August and Gepetto
Grade: C
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So the characters who are appearing next year–Rumple, Hook, and Regina–must only be appearing for flashbacks?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"How does Henry forget he has a child? I just don’t see him being a one night stand type of guy. Then the whole what happened to my dad thing with the little girl. Weird!
Henry’s cursed I think. He lost that battle we saw in the Enchanted Forest and now Lucy’s looking for him, but he’s in our world, and doesn’t remember her.
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