Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161024005929/@comment-27257290-20161026003002

I quite liked this episode, but a couple more things annoyed me than last week.

First of all, can they stop using the word "Saviour" every 5 seconds? It's always been a corny word but at least they used it sparingly when referring to Emma before. Now it's just Saviour this, Saviour that until the word has lost all meaning.

Aladdin was basically Will, accent and all. I think Emma may have made one too many references to the movie. I mean, I know OUAT mostly takes inspiration from Disney movies nowadays but you don't need to admit it so much. It's worse than 5A starting off with Emma watching The Sword in the Stone. One reference I LOVED however, was when Aladdin said "I can show you the world". A very nicely placed gem to notice only if you're a big enough fan. I also liked how they did Aladdin and Jasmine's characters justice. Jasmine sticking up for herself when Aladdin makes out like she's spoilt and selfish, NICE.

I was expecting Emma and Co to come looking for Archie later on in the episode, but clearly they don't care. Even though there's an office full of his things to use for a locator spell but whatever. So far the EQ is kind of useless. I get how she's just sitting back and watching shit hit the fan, but she doesn't do her old self justice. I'm not impressed with Zelena still. After all this time she's spent being wicked over and over again, it's just getting boring.

Meanwhile the episode hasn't even touched on the fact that Regina can't get rid of her Dahk side without dying. Yet Henry gets plenty of time to whine about how it's his fault Emma is the Saviour. No it's not, Henry. It's Gold's fault. Yaknow, because he's actually an influential character. Having said that, where was he for all this? Rumple you better not be crying in your shop because you miss your long hair.

Hook keeping the scissors wasn't really a surprise twist, but I am interested in how that'll play out. But after all the strain that's been put on Captain Swan in Season 5, those 2 NEED to stop keeping secrets from one another. But Hook stopping Emma from being the Saviour to save her life would be a nice bit of karma for her making him a Dark One to save his life.

Still pleased that no one cares about David's father. Also glad to see no dwarves or fairies about.

I'm guessing by now that it won't really be Regina under the hood, and she'll just be preoccupied with EQ. It's not the first time something important has happened without the whole gang present, so I don't know why Emma is reading so much into her missing wife.

Overall a good episode, but not as good as the rest of the season so far. Can't wait for next week's.