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I really liked this episode. There was only one thing missing: An epic final battle!

I say that in that I feel that the stakes felt as out of nowhere as Wish Rumple himself. It wa sad if a very good flashback was used as the present day of the episode instead of feeling like a strong present day episode.

The cameos were expected, though a bit on the nose (Cruella’s animal puns, Pan’s “never”, someone announcing their name).

The mythos was used well. We had Hook refer to the Wish Realm as is a cracked mirror, and thus they used a cracked mirror to go to WR (Though cracked for a different reason). They recalled the Magic Ink from Cruella’s hair, though, they never did say the source. Used othe tmacguffins from before and were pretty consistent.

The magic was also used well. The Snow Globe allowed for nice jokes and a decent call back to Henry and Violet’s scene where he talks about a whole village being trapped in a snow globe. They also like to shrink things down a lot this season.

While you’d think Weaver would best Rumple, Nimue did choke out Emma (who was declared the most powerful DO). Also, they used the cuff which apparently were sold like candy in WR. You’d wonder why they never cuffed Wish Rumple in that world. To be doubly sure, but I guess the heroes were never that bright.

I think Goodman expressed Henry as adequately as he was presented this season. When Henry gets mad, it makes me mad...at him, every single time. He might have a point about Weaver’s happy ending, but it reminds me of the heroes’ selfish streak (which was unintentional).

My only issue going forward is that I don’t see them settling the loose plot points aka sticking the landing. Nook has a poisoned heart, Weaver spent over a dozen episodes looking for the Guardian, Henry hasn’t really done anything as two episodes resolved his major arc and three showed his manufactured and minor “pain”, and how do you wrap up Regina?