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I loved this week's episode so much!! So much goodness.

Zelena's "I'm just too clever" or whatever she said, I loved, yet more Zelena gold for us. I hope they're not going to be making the rest of the series revolve around Zelena and Oz. I get how she's important because Hades is in love with her but it's still meant to be about Hades. It's like the storybook has 3 pages about Hades only because they're part of the 300 pages one could write about Zelena. I'm sorry, is this the UW arc or another Oz arc?

What I loved though was how it just felt like a Once episode. Probably because we see the Sleeping Curse used twice, but still. I'm glad Hook was finally given some use this episode, although it's a bit of a joke how Robin wasn't even in it. "Check in on Roland for us, Robin would want me to ask" - come on Regina, Robin has little enough to say without you stealing his lines.

I just felt like more stuff actually happened in this episode. Less characters repeating themselves, less Rumple bulls**t, and more action and people getting things done. And I was VERY satisfied with this week's cliffhanger. I just think the last couple of endings weren't quite as climactic as intended, but Belle pricking herself is EXACTLY the kind of Once cliffhanger we know and love.

But what I don't get is when Rumple protests against Belle using a Sleeping Curse. I instantly thought "he's literally just saying now that he doesn't love her" and was wondering why no one acknowledges this. I know Rumple insists he's just a dark man through and through, but this is the first I've heard him saying he doesn't really love her.

Also I loved Wolfie and Kansas - it's about time they showed us some honest wholesome homosexuality. But after the heavy implications of Mulan loving Aurora, the shipping of Mulan and Ruby, and finally of Ruby and Dorothy, it makes me wonder when Once will include a gay man in the canon. I liked the touch of having a storybook page depicting the Wolfkansas kiss, almost as if to say "fairytales can be gay and we're gonna have one, dammit!"

The episode title was very satisfying, too. Definitely one of their finer titles, unlike next week's episode "Sisters". Let me guess, more Regina and Zelena drama taken straight out of 3B?