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I actually liked that we got to see the breaking point for Milah. It wasn’t just that Rumple was a coward and what not. He stripped her of her opportunity to have another child with him. That sucks. And it was nice to see when Milah first met Hook. All we saw was her at a tavern with him through Rumple’s eyes and it made her look horrible. Sure, she was in an unhappy marriage, but abandoning your child over that? For some pirate? Looked bad. Still looks bad, just not as bad. This episode really showed us how miserable she was and after what Rumple did, I think it justified her behavior a bit. And seeing her first moment with Hook helped me understand why she was going to the tavern all the time after. It was a nice missing piece I thought.
And gosh was it fitting for her to be taking care of the children. We all could not make heads or tails of it when we saw the pictures but I actually thought it made sense because of her abandoning Bae. And I also loved that Rumple “killed” her. Although she was in an unhappy marriage, and Rumple screwed her over with the kid thing, there are ways to go about it. Get a divorce so you can have kids with Hook down the road. Stay in your son’s life, but also move on with yours. Don’t just run away. And after all these years, this really confirms for me that it was her that willingly left, as opposed to Hook persuading her or what not. In their first encounter, he recognized she was married and backed off. She’s the one who came back. So in my eyes, she deserved to be completely lost with the lost souls, like I’m sure her son and Rumple originally felt when she left. And it was fitting Rumple did it.
[adrotate group="5"]The way I am understanding this, is that Emma can allow someone to take her heart, or she herself can take it. No one can take it without her permission. However an explanation confirming this would be nice. And yes, good point, Regina couldn’t even reach in to grab it like Cora did, so this was a little different. But most likely, the show forgot about Queen of Hearts and how no one can take Emma’s heart. Disappointed in Jane Espensen for not catching this in her writing of the episode.
Ok, sure, but she didn’t act like the “Queen of Hearts,” from Alice in Wonderland and we didn’t know that was who she was out of the gate. Cora was her own person and then they tacked on the reveal that she was also the Queen of Hearts. Her personality, her drive, her intentions, her “love” for Regina, her motivations, were all original.
I love that it’s not brothers grimm. I actually like this a lot. Bringing it home with potentially completely original characters. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the last time they did this with major characters, we got Cora.
I really don’t want it to be brothers grimm. Like as a last season, I’m just not compelled by that. But I really have no other idea what it could be. It has to link Henry as the author…perhaps it’s a flash sideways episode? Flash forward? Something that has not been told yet…
The Underworld is the in-between Limbo. You can go “downstairs” (the worse place) or you can go “upstairs” (the Better place) and that’s Olympus. Olympus is their heaven, no matter what culture you’re from.
I will believe it when I see it confirmed on the show. If someone moves on, and Olympus is shown again, fair enough. I just think that’s dumb.
Overall: 6/10
Liked:
– Hercules and Snow in flashbacks. I thought both actors did very well and it was super cute. And I actually wanted the kiss in the end. I also liked that we finally learned how Snow got good at shooting arrows and it was nice to see her struggle at first. We had never really gotten this time period with Snow before and I enjoyed it.
– Cruella was amazing as always. Her motives are interesting in that I like them better than what Pan’s plans are. And it gets Henry back into the story and back to potentially being a relevant author.
– Hades and Emma meeting. I continue to enjoy Greg Germann in this role.
Mixed:
– Cerberus….CGI was fine, but once again the writers built up these monsters like they are the most ferocious things…and then they don’t deliver by the end of it. They tried making it act really dangerously (all the effects with the beast crashing through the apt and what not), but when it came time to kill it, way to easy.
Disliked:
– MEG WAS HORRIBLE
– Is Henry really going to fall for this? I like Cruella’s plan, but come on. Nobody blames Emma for killing her. No one labels her a murderer. If Henry falls for this, uhhhhhh.
Overall, I liked this more than I thought I would. It was less filler than I anticipated. But Meg, Cruella’s ridiculous reasoning and Henry not calling her out on it and then lying to Robin, and somehow Meg being able to move on with Herc after just meeting him, really brought this episode down for me, despite enjoying Hercules and Snow in the flashbacks.
2) I really don’t like that Snow’s epiphany didn’t come from a place of deep internal inspection of what it means to be Mary Margaret vs what it means to be Snow White but because Regina (a character who fluctuates between Hero-Mayor and Snarky Evil Queen on a dime) and Hercules (a one-off who’s connection to Snow was only just established this week) had to prop her up.
I thought it was quite fitting that Regina was the big reason Snow snapped out of her Mary Margaret funk. It shows how far those two characters have come.
