Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160425010026/@comment-26532022-20160426232605

Farerb wrote: and doing a forgetting ex machina doesn't change that it was a retcon. Actually, the River Lethe is anything BUT an ex machina. Lethe was one of the five veins of the Underworld, and the writers did really well by introducing it.

As for my thoughts on the episode, I loved it. It did a very good job of developing Zelena and Cora, in my opinion. I can't be mad at the flashback, as it showed that Zelena wasn't always wicked, and gives actual hope for her redemption. And, as someone else said, Cora may have picked that mansion specifically because it was near the River Lethe. That's what I choose to believe.

Cora was shown to be coldhearted, with twisted views of how Regina should live her life and become royalty. "You can only rely on yourself" is a real life mentality, and if Cora really believes in that, (as she should, with what all's happened to her up to this point,) then of course she'd try to teach Regina that too.

Present day, eh. Hades proposing to Zelena was nice, ("Let's make chaos together.") but I'm not convinced it'll work out. Hades' plan is too warped to go with Zelena's belief, especially now. James v. David was nice, James was being a self-centered a-hole as usual. The fight being on the dock made sense this time, as David saved Emma from being thrown in there. Throwing James in was unexpected, I will say. Goes against some predictions I saw of someone getting saved before someone was thrown into the RoLS.

One thing I am slightly confused about: how did Cora share memories with Regina and Zelena? Like, seriously, how does that work?