Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24846659-20180626164649

There have been several horrible Once arcs but 6B is the worst arc for me.

1) Tougher Than the Rest| Was a pretty solid episode, nothing to complain about here other than some Wish Realm nonsense.

2) Murder Most Foul| I thought the flashbacks were a bit boring and anti-climax. Also, since David was 6 in these flashbacks, that makes Pinocchio really old. This isn’t a retcon persay but definitely a stretch.

3) Ill-Boding Patterns| The present day events were pretty solid but the flashbacks make no sense. Baelfire used the Dark One dagger to control Rumple but in "The Return" Rumple knew August wasn't Bae because and I quote "You're trying to control me?---You're not Baelfire---My son would never use me."

4) Page 23| This episode has a good message but I think it would've made more sense had Regina and the Evil Queen merged together rather than sending her other half to go off and be with Wish Robin. Also, the flashbacks are a bit questionable, seeing how when Tink and Regina meet up in Neverland, there seemed to be no indication they met up again in between the flashbacks and present day events of "Quite a Common Fairy".

5) A Wondrous Place| The Agrabah plot had no relevance to the main plot, Jafar was wasted, and has weird consistency with the spin-off. Ariel somehow got a magical necklace, traveled through Agrabah, Jafar (presumably) sent her back into the ocean, lost her magical necklace, years later Regina gave Ariel a magic bracelet, she lost the bracelet, and then found her magic necklace, again? Sure, Jane… This was also the last time we saw Liam 2.0, who turns out to be a useless retcon. The scenes at the bar were funny but that’s really the only great part of the episode.

6) Mother's Little Helper| This a really solid episode. My favorite episode of this arc but if I have to nitpick, the portal to the Dark Realm opening without Emma dying was a bit of a cheat.

7) Awake| Why does this episode exist? I find no redeeming qualities about this episode. First off, the flashbacks, Snow and David woke up from Regina’s curse, 18 years before “Snow Falls”?... The pixie flower appears in the presence of the greatest evil but only chronologically appeared twice during the span of the entire show, the first time when Regina was being a bitch and the second time when an evil character arrived… The pixie flower would’ve been a great help in 2A when Emma and Snow needed to get back home. Tiger Lily is Tinkerbell 2.0, who was on Neverland during the Neverland arc but didn’t  Emma forgets semi-sentient shadows comes from Neverland after seeing Hook’s shadow fly in her parent’s apartment. Snow was willing to leave baby Neal an orphan, so Emma and Hook could be together despite having access to the Apprentice’s wand. There’s also the non-sense line uttered by Fiona “I practically invented dark magic.” When she became the Black Fairy 300 years after Nimue became the first Dark One.

8) Where Bluebirds Fly| Boring episode. Zelena sacrificed her magic for no reason seeing how Fiona was able to cast her dark curse without Zelena’s magic. This was just a filler episode.

9) The Black Fairy| I was disappointed Fiona wasn’t born a fairy but lowering my expectations, this was a pretty good episode. I did like we did find out a little more as why Malcolm resented Rumple. The 3 episodes after this episode were unnecessary and 6B really ended with this episode.

10) The Song in Your Heart| At the beginning, Once Upon a Time was more adult themed and wasn’t quite Disney-eqsue. So, it felt out of place. The flashbacks were cute but the present day events were dull and everyone was acting really stupid. Especially, at the end when they are all surprised Fiona’s curse was coming even though she said it would. This too is a filler episode.

11) The Final Battle| More like, the Lamest Battle. They uttered the phrase “The Final Battle” like 50 times before the finale and it hyped it up for no reason. TLK now works on unconscious people. David and Killian can fall from a really beanstalk without receiving any injuries. David and Killian forgot about Tiny the giant. Zelena’s used Jefferson’s hat (which was in Wonderland) to escape Oz.

Regina: The Mad Hatter’s hat. Wasn’t it destroyed?

Zelena: He was a hatter. He had multiples.

Yes, but the reason he went mad was because he couldn’t make another working hat… Retcon after retcon… The writers were like “Let’s recreate season 1 in 2 hours!” The only scenes I really enjoyed were of Lucy and/or Henry. 