Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24386552-20161126003458/@comment-25926288-20161126005159

If I divide it in half and assume decent episodes following, so far, it's Heartless.

They took things old, made them new, and everything from the acting to the music and the level of suspense was there. The CGI was decent, The flashback was sort of meh-ish, but not too bad.

Breakdown:

1. Queenie wasn't forever campy, spouting drivel that's often confused for a villainous monologue. She had campy moments, but she had bite to her bark.

2. Everyone acted human, even with some chinks given this season. This "chemistry" between EQ and Gold was followed with disgust and Rumple wasn't a cartoon villain, but had a real motivation (that they squashed the next episode).

3. Snow and David were given something cool and they were able to demonstrate their tremendous chemistry. Not the tween stuff, but actually feeling the love vibrating from between them. (Props to 609's opening too).

4. If this episode was filler (which in relation to the overarching Savior mythos, yes) then this is how they should all be done. Compare this to having Merida have unrelated woes. Compare this to Red resurfacing from the offscreen grave. Compare this to David's mushroom hunt, Snowing's eggnapping, all of Snow and David's inovlvement in previous seasons, etc.