Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161128015930/@comment-5106672-20161128043807

Meh. I've got mixed feelings about this episode.


 * The title was quite misleading. I mean, no actual changeling happened, no fake babies, no sidhe court… meh.


 * The Black Fairy was a little bit of a let down… until the big reveal. I hope that means we're going to see more of her, because she looked like she had tons of potential, much more than a few minutes frozen in the squid ink could show. Until now, other than yet another branch on Henry's family tree, she didn't add much for all the talk she got back in the first seasons.


 * Oh look, yet another child-abandoning parent on OUAT. Combined with how little sympathy Rumple could harness in this episode, that one totally fell flat.


 * So. Regina has a huge, loud mouth, says a lot of things which she may or may not mean, projects blame on the nearest indirect object and so on. That's hardly news. What's more genuine about her are her actions: this time she didn't try to kill the object of her blame-projection for decades, she actually saved her. Thanks for the character development, but there was something terribly off about her dialogue with Zelena, which was clearly forced to keep the Mills Family Drama going.


 * The sentient fetus with a dreaming consciousness from the future is getting a bit out of hand and way too creepy. Thank goodness he's out of the… err… way.


 * The Blue Fairy does f***ing enjoy messing up with Rumple, doesn't she? I still don't get if she's a well-intentioned silly thing who really thinks she's helping around, or if it's more personal than it appears? Will we get a Black&Blue backstory that will explain why she gets more and more creative with ways to get him out of the picture?


 * Wait, where did the Blue Fairy go in the first place? Can she how realm-jump like it's not a big deal? Seriously?


 * Snow was in there, too.


 * You know who was not in there? Astrid and Tinker Bell! Come on, we keep having episodes with, like, less than ten nuns at once (when there were supposed to be a good hundred or so) and they don't even get to show a few familiar faces? Meh!

The things I enjoyed:


 * I feel guilty at admitting it, but the Evil Queen was freaking brilliant in this episode. Perhaps that's because my Rumple approval ratings are at their lowest point ever, but I enjoyed every second of her screwing him over. Poor Belle keeps getting the short end of the stick in their endless feuding, but hey.


 * Give Zelena a hug. And side note, she basically made little more than a cameo, how could she be so much more sympathetic than Rumple in this episode?

This episode opens a whole new world of questions, though.


 * What does being the Black Fairy's child mean, in practical terms?


 * Why did the Black Fairy kept abducting babies but left her own child behind? Rumple's question is 100% legit!


 * What's with the spinsters and their Magic Bean, which they didn't sell to get themselves out of dire poverty but simply gifted to kid Rumple? Was it a present from Mommy Dearest? Was she trying to make it up at last by giving him a way to go away and start anew? Or to simply get rid of her ex via portal to somewhere else? Did she fake it when she didn't know who her son was?


 * Or… was it once again the Blue Fairy, trying to get the Black Fairy's son out of the Enchanted Forest just in case? I mean, I'm still 100% convinced she played Baelfire like a violin with the Magic Bean and her ultimate goal was to send the Dark One to the Land (mostly) Without Magic, could she have masterminded a (failed) attempt to get rid of him as a child because he was the Black Fairy's child to begin with?

Well… stay tuned on Once Upon A Time to likely NOT receive any of these answers, because I doubt they'd ever get such a juicy chance to elaborate on the mythology of their show when they can just make the present day drama more and more convoluted, right?