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CoolDudeAl wrote: Alexalaz wrote: Overall, an okay episode! I really like that they try to correct multiple mistakes they use to do. (This goes for all of the 5b). At the finale, they tried to connect, darkeness as something between force and creature , with the evil road being something between free will and author staff, which is not clear , at least for the last seasons. I have problems with what are the limits of someone's darker self, as the series expand but my mayor problem  is that now word-crossing is a 2 minutes job, while the whole point of the series was that it's something that happens really rarely.

Bonus: With most of the known western Europian fairytales being introduced, I have to say that I spotted multiple arabian ("Agrabah" )characters on the LoUS. We may be surprised, since i think i recall them saying about a world... I don't think they ever intended for world crossing to be difficult. Getting to the LWM is supposted to be difficult (and it is). Going from magic realm to magic realm is a bit tricky, but you have a lot of options, including going through a magic door, using a magic item like a hat or silver slippers designed for realm travel, use a magic bean, use a magical weather event like a cyclone, or use a creature that can travel across realms like a mermaid or The White Rabbit. Sure we didn't see as much people traveling across realms in the first seasons flashbacks, but that is because the story had to introduce the methods, and you wouldn't want to do all of those in one episode. World-crossing really isn't the problem. Silver Slippers were rare, the hat was a rare and limited thing, the creatures were limited as well. The issue was when magic beans went from rare to "Oh, look I found another magic bean." Sure the Dark One isn't omniscient, but come on. The other portals seem to be controlled randomly or by the Merlin wand which I say is okay, but Rumple knew of the Apprentice and even if he didn't want one way travel, the wand works in both lands. There's no way the Apprentice is stronger than the Dark One.