Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180428005811/@comment-34657163-20180428185030

This was a really good episode writing-wise. But there was some off putting things direction wise, but I'll get to that later.

I like the idea of Gothel being responsible for resetting civilisation, which is why we saw an 18th century setting...although I feel it could have worked better if we either A. had a super futuristic or more particular setting or B. just had an ancient Greece-like setting. Although, that means she killed how many people? She really went all Carrie there (I would complain about the CGI but the CGI has never been amazing, and it's only a TV show, and the only reason I noticed was because I watched  a movie with infinit-ely better CGI, and budget just before it). I overall really enjoyed her backstory. It had enough sympathy for me to well, sympathize with her, but it also actually showed her becoming evil (which almost all villains after Zelena, arguably Ingrid, suffered from). I don't think it's quite Cora/Regina/Rumple/Pan level, but it's fairly close.

The present day story was fun; it's nice to see the plot connected. Especially seeing Henry's boards! Wowzerz! Even he wants to know who Sage was. Alice is also totally adorable, and Rogers is well...Rogers. I also didn't mind Jacinda this episode. Lucy for the most part was fine too (I really think Alison is good but the writers just give Lucy silly stuff). I noticed they used Ingrid's death theme when they attempt TLK. ''Oof, I'm also happy they didn't break it...sorry. ''

Criticism wise, it's mostly just technical stuff. Flora and Isla came off kinda flat. Seraphina was odd since she wasn't really shocked that Gothel just commited genocide? Ook. The Nymph costumes would be good if the skin was green, whereas the blue skin would have been good if the costumes were like...blue. But I liked the butterflies! The destroyed grove also looked really miserable, even for a destroyed grove...

Other main problem would be there being six witches when they're should only be like three (including Seraphina)... oh well!