Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20161119123610/@comment-24593235-20161119220347

"Swan Song", no doubt.

Not a fan of Hook as it is, but the flashbacks cut into 2x09 horribly. The whole story behind Brennan's sleeping curse was a bore, and the naming of his new son is just WTF. They also deleted the last flashback which would have cleared up the whole cursing of Hook's hook, and Regina's outfit changed from the one in 2x09. On the up side, these flashbacks did set up Hook's next two centrics... that I personally didn't care for at all.

Present day was even worse.
 * Emma running around talking normally again just dressed as the Dark Swan was laughable.
 * All the times people were attacked by the Dark Ones they had chances to run away and just didn't...
 * Hook and Regina having a secret they vowed to never discuss again was just cringe.
 * Hook spent the episode wanting to condemn Emma's family to hell but then just suddenly flips back to good when Nimue chokes her out some.
 * Also Emma was immortal and couldn't die but okay.
 * Nimue was a massive disappointment in general.
 * Zelena wanting to make her daughter wicked was just random after 5x10 and then Regina banishing her was just the most unwanted thing ever.
 * Also the rules for the wand changed. 5x01 she needed darkness to wield it; she didn't need to "believe in herself".
 * Hook's death scene was a ripoff from Buffy.
 * Belle and Rumple's reunion was ruined by Rumple becoming the Dark One again.
 * Also before that, Belle had to go across town to Rumple's shop but managed to not run into any of the dozen Dark Ones roaming the streets.
 * Rumple's vial of magic. How awfully convenient...
 * Rumple reverting to Dark One else makes the whole arc pretty pointless. It just reset everything.
 * Everyone then chose to use Belle as a blackmail piece to make Rumple help everyone get to hell.
 * Snow and Charming abandoning Neal.
 * Robin abandoning Roland AND his newborn daughter whose mother he just let be banished to another realm.
 * Cutting the scene that made taking Henry with them make sense.
 * Everyone just abandoning all of their responsibilities to save Hook when most of them barely had a relationship with him. For Emma, sure. But for Hook? Please. :|
 * Emma's plan to split her heart was just flawed from the start.
 * Cutting all of the Camelot and Merida scenes. While they were eventually resolved, it took them months to do and I strongly believe they weren't even going to bother until they received all the backlash.
 * The episode ended with Emma pretending Captain Swan is allowed to parallel Snowing.