Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160404010039/@comment-25361971-20160404093242

Wow. A really great episode that didn't include a returning dead character! How did that happen??

liked
 * Rebecca Mader's acting really shines this episode. While I am annoyed that it took this long to get Zelena back but it was worth the wait. From giving up her baby to ripping scarecrows brains out, I loved every second.
 * I really loved Zelena/Hades (whatever their official ship name is going to be). I wanted an villain couple for a while and now I have one (other than Rumple/Cora but that was messy). the "our decay" line is one of the best lines ever written on this show and it both fits the ship and why the underworld is Storybrooke.
 * More Oz is always great. We got to see munchkins including Boq who I didn't expect to see. This is why I would love to see a Once Upon a Time in Oz spinoff because there is so much world to explore.
 * I hope Dorothy has a bigger role next time because warrior!Dorothy is new and cool. I want to know why she has a sword when she could have had a rifle or an axe from her farm.
 * Toto is so cute.
 * Captainswan wasn't the focus for once.

Disliked
 * Did the scarecrow really needed to be CGI? If a movie from 1939 can make a more believable scarecrow than Once can too. The scarecrow really made the scenes he's in way more cartoonish than needed.
 * Why didn't Zelena use the Scarecrow's brain. If it was explained, I might have missed it but if not they need to fix that.
 * Rumbelle. Can they just end already??

So probably the best episode of 5B (or season 5) yet. Yet another Belle episode next week but for once doesn't have her teaming up with that arc's Disney princess. I wonder on a scale of Meg to Elsa, how much will Gaston be like his Disney version.