Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150511001505/@comment-25926288-20150511160646

Issac Flash back and pre-AR

--Interesting nod to Walt Disney being the previous Author, not sure I like that, but hey!

--Isaac is definitely a composite Adam and Eddy; more realistic story, but motive didn't seem that strong.

--They just now think to free the Apprentice when they knew he was in there and that Blue had been free. The Apprentice (Who I think is Yen Sid, and still alive) dooesn't deserve such treatment. They just release him because they now need him. I would have trapped them all, including the Author behind that cramped door page!

--Bae being remembered (though the show is really dropping the Bae mentions like rain drops in a summer storm! Really hard!)

AR

--Once again the Enchanted Forest is shown to be ridiculously small. Understandable, but at least more than a day, at least. Traveling from random village in Snow's kingdom to Snow's castle (Issac), to Tower Island (Henry) to Sherwood Forest a couple of times is ridiculous to do all in a single day, well actually a few hours! At least I know now that there is a place called the Oueenswood and there is a port town within the kingdom with the Tower Island off the coast.

--Question: Does Snow rule both kingdoms? The table is from the other castle and George would have no sons left. I guess so!

--Granny's outfit gives me life! Totally wish she could always wear that. Almost looked like a spider, lol.

--Die Hook Die! Totally thought that Charming should win! Charming is a better or at least equal swordsman as he is.

--Evil Snow was great as well as the other character versions

--Dragon chase scene was a little too easy. Knock Lily out, then hit her with one lucky shot. Good thing she survived!

-- Rumple said last season that regardless of changing the past that they could never change who they really are. A fate that they can never escape. Shown through all our villains!

--Solution was odd to choose Regina out of nowhere, but worse was the super-predictable Henry is the next Author....duh duh dhuh!!!!!!!!!!

Post-AR, Storybrooke and the Finale

--Did Regina and Hook just forget that Rumple was going all Dark One and they decided to throw a party? I knwo the heroes and the villains at times are dumb, but use your brain!

--Cop out for Rumple. I love Robert Carlyle and his performances. I love Rumple as a character and the Dark One as well. However, this was a cop-out to still have the ships all victorious in the end. Rumple is once again a blank slate and he showed that he chooses darkness in this reality as the Dark One, as the Light One, as Mr. Gold, and that should never change! I didn't want Rumple to die, but this was a cheap way to keep ships going! I know they want to keep Carlyle (who is the best of the main cast) and they probably are reducing his role and giving him a break (watch Rumple wake up for the midseason cliffhanger!), but this was unsatisfactory. Why didn't Rumple try this? Why did the Sorceror no just defeat the darkness? Once Upon a Ship remains running strong in this show. I know Disney is their boss' boss' boss, but it's still not right. I know the show is about hope, but hope doesn't just fix everything! I congratulate Rumbelle for lasting and tossing Will's storyline in the trash, but this is just a bad message. Belle looks weak and Stockholm syndrome or abuse is going on, because she still should not want to go back to him just because he is reborn. I agreed with Robert, Rumple, and even Anti-Rumple fans (and I love Rumple) that Rumple dosn't deserve a happy ending! Touching scene though! Love that you still see the beauty that started it all. Who could ever love me? Weeps immensely.

--The Darkness seems unstoppable, yet I bet everything that Merlin can't stop it and Emma or there will be some contrived last minute way to defeat the Darkness. With the Darkness so powerful, next season maybe the last with Darkness covring the entire season 5. I can't see how it could progress more. They conquered darkness time and time again, accepted fate over and over, redeemed themselves countless times (in a normal gray person way), and Emma fulfilled her purpose as Savior, bringing happy endings and sacrificed herself, like they all do. (Bet it'll be shipping to the rescue with true love's kiss or something like that!)

--The Sorceror is ....Ma ..Mama...Merlin. Predictable as knowing that Emma is a blonde. I think Appreny is Yen Sid (which makes some sense because his landlord could just be himself and him being Yen Sid, guarding the hat.)

--Camelot, ho! I was sort of shocked that they actually went with this. Many guesses Aladdin and I was afraid that they were right because Aladdin would have made absolutely no sense.

Long wait ahead! Enjoyed it overall:D