Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180414005814/@comment-34657163-20180414141905

I really want to say this was my favorite episode this season but I really liked One Little Tear and Secret Garden; two episodes who have been able to stay on my good side past recency bias (there are others too, but they happen to but Secret Garden was the least recent of this new half). There was a surprising amount of continuity in this episode too:

-Rumple has been keeping possession of Zelena's necklace

-Zelena banished the witches of the east and the north too

-Henry's H & G story was indeed just the other H & G (109)

-Henry and Jack hung out when Henry was at least 19, they slayed giants, and Henry drank...

-Henry is indeed still the author, but just doesn't do anything with his powers (not that he did before, but it was getting strange when in literally the episode before when he said he wasn't special...)

-Why Zelena had some twisted enjoyment over the H & G story (back when she was impregnated by Emma's onion rings!)

Plus we found out that Samdi was responsible for waking Nick up, and that Drew is awake(-n by Samdi too! Who plans on getting to break his trust with Sabine :(

Among other things, I think the episode was solid in general and it thankfully didn't take Kelly 13 episodes to admit that she did all those bad things (cough...cough...). Although, I wish it went past the surface level of "really bad", since the most specific thing she mentioned was killing a munchkin. Plus, we totally should have got Zelena apologizing to Rumple which would have made a ton of sense. The same goes for Nick convincing Henry that witches are bad, i.e. Nick could have brought up that Zelena got Neal killed or that Regina...well...there's a lot. Oh, and Zelena is also an official child abuser :(

The house looked great too! It's also been a while since we've seen anyone do magical jumping... and pulling fire out of a fire??? Dan Payne did fantastic too, and Hansel was cast really well too.