Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160404010039/@comment-27257290-20160406025137

Eskaver wrote: Some repetitive chit-chat is just how tv shows go and it keeps eevryone up to date. Writing stuff is likely very complex and you'd have to make decent judgements.

This episode was a bit weird, but I think that's how every episode has been with each grouping off on their own adventure. Apparently Henry takes naps or someone should really watch him during those blackouts. I'd be worried.

This episode was: Zelena/Regina/Robin, Rumple/Belle, and Snow/David primarily with Hook and Emma on the sidelines. It seems like they will cycle through character who get to get active and those that have down time.

This was a Zelena centric and I thought it was good and it adds to her character. I grew fond of her after her return and many seem to dislike her, but they need to look beyond what they see as scene-chewery whining. Zelena actually talks for me at least. "Oh, defining happiness in terms of a man" "Robin, you left our child for some pirate!" and so much more. Zelena always drops truth bombs and I think is one of the more intelligent characters as somehow she always gets the characters to trust her and betrays them. It's a rather sad part of her life, but she owns her villany. She even rejects this TWU LUV and I'd take her twu luv over Robin and Regina's non-existent courtship. It literally went,

Robin:"Hey, you're hot and kinda motherly. All I know is that you're bold and audacious, whatever that means."

Regina:"Really? Never heard of me? Well, I'm going to give love a chance due to pixi--I mean fate."

Whereas, Zelena and Hades just dropped because Zelena doesn't trust him and dropped the truth that they only spent the day together...a few hours at most. SO TRUE OMG!! I love how Zelena is sometimes the anchor to reality that we need. Here's the thing about Regina. She gets Henry's unconditional love and perseverance from season 2 onwards, and eventually proves herself for Snow and David and Emma and gets a family, great. Then she meets Robin, gets some time with him and then Marian shows up. Now Regina is all "someone's out to get me, they don't want me to be happy, I need to write my own happy ending". Then when Zelena calls her out about defining happiness in terms of a man, Regina's bull drops that stuff about how she's already got a happy life and Robin is just one part of it.

When Zelena pointed out how little time she and Hades had spent together, it made me think of Frozen straight away ... "you can't marry a man you just met". And yes, I grinned when she yelled at Robin for leaving the baby. "I left because my family needed a British accent, and Regina wants to say we did it in hell," is all I heard when he made his excuses. To be honest, it's only really Emma, Snow, Regina, Henry and Rumple that have proven any proper use in Underbrooke, and even with Snow it was only because of her history with Hercules. David and Robin should have stayed and exchanged dad jokes in Storybrooke.