Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180512005811/@comment-25926288-20180512115033

My se se of the WR is simply that it’s all wonky because it was Aladdin’s first day on the job. It just took random story elements from all of Emma’s adventures and life and tossed them together.

Plus, it apparently can’t create new magic, just a copy that shares the real one’s power. Wish Rumple and our Rumple share the same darkness. Also, Henry knew where to get the “pen” even though technically he should have had it still.

LOL points...

— Does every cameo require Regina to spout their full names?

Critical points...

— They just eliminated 16 episodes worth of narrative with a single stroke of the pen. I felt the shift coming when they said the Guardian will be a great hero in 18. Now, that Alice did the hero thing, they literally wrote that plot device out of the story. This is the equivalent of mentioning a powerful weapon to defeat the bad guy in chapter 4, going on a whole quest and in chapter 22 say it was true love that defeated the bad guy because the hero read a diary in chapter 18.

— I had a minor issue with how weak they made Weaver look in comparison to Wish Rumple. I’ll chalk it up to DOs are weak to other DOs, as Emma was the strongest DO but was choked out by Nimue.

— I assume that Wish Rumple never did any research to find out that Wish Henry is his grandson, not that he should care.

— Henry was the true antagonist in this episode. Not Wish Henry, but the real one.