Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171118053131/@comment-31937823-20171119211158

Eskaver wrote: I've been pretty fair on things, but I wanted to say this separate from my more writing-analyzing report....

I was totally taken out of the moment in the Alice/Ella scene. No, I'm not going to bash the actress on superficial reasons. Ella came off as less worried about her mother than Alice. It was purposefully set up that way, but it didn't seem like Dania could make the 180 transition to the "Oh, my mother totally loved me" moment. Dania came off as totally flat.

I'll chalk it up to a bad day as she seems to be able to pull off "joyful" with Lucy, but didn't seem to give much about fictional dead mother.

The only real bash-worthy thing I've got is that the writers said

7x02: "Hey guys, look out for chess as that could be Hook's daughter.

7x04: "Hey guys, LOOK! Chess! Daughter?!

7x06: "Hey guys, did you see? CHESS! Daughter?!!!!

7x07: Hey, guys, Chess again. Maybe....SURPRISE! Betcha didn't see those clever little hints we were giving you. Alice is Hook's DAUGHTER! GOTCHA!!!!!!!

That's why I didn't want Alice to be Hook's daughter as they were literally hitting us over the head with a frying pan.

Maybe the intention was making it so obvious that everyone would just think it was a red herring?