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The best things about this episode were the clashes between Regina and Hook, along with the clashes between Regina and Zelena.

Jennifer Morrison was decent when she conveyed Emma's struggles to avoid giving in to evil. But her "Dark Swan" doesn't really fascinate me as far as villainous characters go. This would have been more interesting if the show had been willing to explore Emma's past moral lapses and crimes. Instead, they decided to go with the "possession" route. And this would have been interesting if Regina had been the one who was taken over by the entity, considering her evil past. On second thought, I don't know about that.

I really wish that the show runners had not created this entity. It has completely eradicated Rumpelstiltskin's moral struggle and merely made him a victim of possession. . . like Emma.

They finally gave Robin a bit of intelligence.

I am sick to death of these swipes at Robin's intelligence. I'm beginning to wonder if viewers really understand human nature or that they simply want to enforce their limited views on the show's writers. Robin had not seen Marian in THREE DECADES and had fallen in love with Regina before Zelena impersonated her. Naturally, his memories were not that strong. And it was only natural that he would immediately recognize that the "Regina" who kissed him was not the woman he was in love with.