Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-27138802-20151102183421

CTrent29 wrote: ''Belle is the nerdy librarian that knows all things magic. How? I'm certian that you actually have to read books and I'm sure Rumple didn't leave magic books lying around, but maybe he was generous to Belle.''

I felt that they had went too far with Belle's book knowledge. Actually, they went too far back in Season 2, by having us believe that she had learned to read a Chinese language (and I don't know which one) just by reading a book. That was dumb. And this penchant for Belle coming up with resolutions, thanks to the library, is getting ridiculous.

In fact, the only aspects of this episode that I didn't like, were the heavy dependence on Belle's reading habit and Emma. As a villain, Emma is becoming damn dull. Jennifer Morrison's performance tends to come off as monotone sometimes. There is subtlety and there is monotone. Morrison is the latter.

And how nice that Henry is able to give Emma an excuse by insisting that she is not herself. I knew that Horowitz and Kitsis would find a way to absolve blame from Emma, the moment she allowed that entity to enter her. How cowardly of them. ^Cosign.