Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171111015844/@comment-31231929-20171111063817

I really enjoyed this episode, except for one scene, but I'll get to that later. Drizella is super evil and woke up Regina. I loved how the show revealed her evilness. She killed Prince Gregor in order to turn her heart dark to prevent Lady Tremaine from using it to wake Anastasia. When she killed Gregor, I thought she looked horrified for a second, but then she smiled an evil little smile. And it was pretty much revealed that she was the one who cast the curse. And this time around, breaking the curse has consequences. Consequences that involve Henry (most likely) that Regina has something to do with. Based on Regina’s reaction, I think it might mean Henry dies or something equally bad. To quote Zelena “That is next level darkness!” I think that after the events of this episode’s flashback, Drizella meets the Witch who continues her magic training.

Henriella was adorable in this episode. I loved that Henry asked her out using his 80s mixtape and their date consisted of fixing up the food truck. Also, them fighting the ruffians with a torque wrench and a Tron lunchbox (of course Henry has a Tron lunchbox, A&E wrote the script for Tron: Legacy) was the best.

I loved that Rogers recruited Tilly to find the missing girl/his daughter. And that the show gave more clues to the Alice/Tilly is his daughter theory. She had a black rook in her hand and gave it to him. That was two chess-related clues we’ve gotten. There is no way those were red herrings.

After watching episode 4, I wasn’t sure that Rumple was awake, but he most certainly is. He made a deal, the Dark One can not resist a deal. Also, he seemed less broken up about Belle’s death than I thought he would be.

The scene in which Henry said that Regina was the first person to love him made me really angry. The show made it very clear that Emma was the first one to love him and ignoring that was disrespectful to both Emma and the Swan Beliver relationship which was the central relationship in the show. Henry’s cursed memories are that he was born in prison and that he grew up in the system. That connection he has with Emma was almost enough to reduce my anger at the “Regina was the first person to love Henry” scene, key word being almost. But thank you show for writing that, it was needed.