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Me throughout the episode: whaaaattttt?!? Me in the final minute of the episode: WHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?!?!?

In all seriousness, that was ridiculously good in my opinion. Also, throughout the episode, it was a lot of "remember the pilot guys? The pilot was so gooodddddddd!" Going on. I feel like the way this would've ended had this been a series finale is they just wouldn't have included the end scene with Lucy finding Henry. Also, props to everyone who called it! New characters are older Henry and his daughter.

Another shocker: literally no one died. I 100% expected at least Emma to go down, and when Regina pulled her aside before she fought Gideon I was 100% sure no doubts expecting Emma's "3rd way" to be she dies, but then transfers the power of the Savior to Regina (i.e. Someone who was evil but now is good) thus balancing light and dark? Like, universal neutral? Idk. I am not even joking I was 0 doubts for that, and I was down for it too, would've made for a great season 7.

More stuff I adored: - THEY TOOK CARE OF THE EVIL QUEEN. THANK FREAKING GOD. I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW. Seriously, when she showed up and was like, "yeah u kinda forgot to say everyone wants me dead in the Wish realm so we came here." I was like, "THANK YOU finally someone notices!" And then she died to save everyone? Pure gold.

-Speaking of Gold, he finally cleaned up his act! That whole line at the end of Henry's book about good and evil both did the right thing so the final battle was won was pretty good. Also I loved that "evil" doesn't just mean Gold it also means the Evil Queen.

-Back to the Evil Queen, two more things I adored. I almost didn't catch it, and I might have misheard but I don't think I did. Right before Regina left the Queen to get everyone to the courtyard, she said something to the Queen and I'm pretty sure it was, "Thank you, Regina." Yep folks, my one other wish for tying up the EQ arc was that she gets a real name, thus fully signifying her independence and redemption as a full person. I think I said this on another thread somewhere, maybe the Page 23 discussion? Idk, but all I know right now is MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!! Other thing, during the "this could be a series finale so we gotta do the montage of happiness thing" thing, I think that moment where Robin shoots an arrow into the mirror frame with a ring and "Ready for a new adventure" note was BEAUTIFUL. So now one version of Regina is married and has a happy ending at least.

- more montage of happiness stuff, the dwarves acknowledging Regina as Queen and accepting her was great. I loved that they switched out the mayor sign, and I'm pretty sure this means SB is here to stay which I'm totally OK with at this point.

- like I said, I was beyond shocked that no one actually died onscreen. I am fairly sure some of them will be offscreen dead or have gone their separate ways or we'll see them die in flashbacks in s7, but I am not even joking right now, halfway through part 2 I was checking the clock every couple minutes like "any minute now, someone has to die so let's move it along!" And in the last 5-10 minutes I was like "what're y'all doing you gotta skillfully exit 2/3 of the cast in 5 minutes I'd love to see how your're gonna pull that off!" Of course, when they pulled the "Seattle, many years later..." thing I was like OK I get it now I see how it is.

- setup for s7 wise we got next to nothing which I think was a nesscesary thing since they didn't know if we were getting s7. All we know is Henry's old now, probably gave up his kid for adoption, and now she's back and saying Henry's family needs him. Basically, let the cycle begin anew! Except Henry's not the savior he's the Author, and except we have literally no clue what's happening except personally I have two suspicions: one, Henry's somehow forgotten his family or just no longer believes they're fairy tale characters or something, and two, SB has been cursed again. Henry will likely remember when he returns to SB, but my money's on nobody else will.

That said, my money was on at least 2 deaths tonight, and breifly I was betting my life savings on Regina becoming the Savior, obviously both were wrong, so high likelyhood I'm so far off the mark here that I'm not even in the same universe.

One last thing, Lucy (presumably) is the girl from the opening scene. Henry is, therefore, presumably her dad from the opening scene. Judging from the fact that he had the storybook, my guess is that guy is the first author. Does this mean Author reincarnation cycle or something? I have literally no clue, we'll just have to watch s7 now won't we?