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Re-watching part 2, I really love the Apprentice. I hope he's not permanantly dead. He's a wise, older gentleman, gives me the grampa vibes. And he's just a good actor. I hope eventually little bits get revealed about him in the seaon(s) to come and that this finale wasn't HIS finale. I do accept that he could be the permanently dead character that A & E were referring to. But...I hope not.

I am sort of thinking that since Emma tethered herself to the darkness, her parents/the heroes will work together to try to find some loophole to cleave her of the dagger. Just like Rumple tried. They won't use the same method Rumple planned on, b/c that was not the route of a hero. I wonder if they'll stumble upon a new villian in S5, tether the darkness to him/her, then use a loophole to kill that person w/o becoming the DO. I always have believed that someday the plot would be feature elminitely the existence of a dark one all together. The apprentice tried and was shortly successful of removing the darkness from the dagger. The dagger was blank of a name for a time until someone accepted the darkness. If they can use the hat later to absorb it from Emma, then send it elsewhere, there'd be no possiblity of a future dark one. Perhaps they could send it to Hades?

One other thing I remembered about the finale. I actually didn't really care for Ginny as Evil Snow, even though I do like Ginny. To me, It's just no contest. Lana owned her Evil Queen role.

And at the party at Gran's, Charming saying, "I didn't mean to kill you" to Hook. Oh man. Big belly laugh out of me 2nd time watching.

So now I have a question. Are we going to find out that Merlin is Lily's father? And why wasn't Mal at Granny's party? Why wasn't she in the episode?

Will. I was sad not to see him. I was sad that Belle admitted she didn't really have feelings for him. I wonder if he'll pop back up in S5 to help the heroes find Camelot. Or find a portal. With all his travels and theivery, I imagine he could be of use, thus the need to keep to him around and finally give us insight into what happened to him and Ana.