Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141215020437/@comment-5106672-20141215035551

Mmh. I have mixed feelings about this episode, too.

First off, it had many great things:


 * Regina and Robin's goodbye scene.


 * Anna saving the day. She is a much more effective saviour than Emma is, lol.


 * Regina and Emma's scene at Granny's, it was really cute.


 * Belle standing up at long, long last. I was eagerly waiting for that.

The things I didn't like:


 * The Arendelle ending was a bit rushed, such an arc deserved more focus imo.


 * The introduction of the three new villains. Like okay, meh, I expected something more.


 * A new big retcon, but I'm going into details on that later.

On a side note, this episode pretty much confirmed my theory on why the Dark One's curse didn't break despite Mr. Gold and Belle kissing quite often in Storybrooke since Season 2: he loves power more than he does her. He kept focus on that and that's why it didn't work.

Also, it's quite amazing how Belle finding everything out was partly Henry's fault. He found the glove and that led Belle to the real dagger. Henry was Mr. Gold's undoing, just like the prophecy said.

The big retcon, now: Ursula being in NYC. I can swallow Ingrid due to the apparently huge powers of the Sorcere, but all these FTL characters popping up in the LWM is becoming a bit upsetting, giving how the premise of the show was that it took a Curse to travel there. How is that even possible? Maybe my theory is a bit of a stretch because she looks as young now as she used to, but my guess is Regina might have curse her (and apparently Cruella) to be outside of Storybrooke with the first Curse. Like, taking potentially dangerous people out of her way in case something happened. Well, we'll see.