Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141005180615/@comment-5106672-20141006164020

Things I liked:

1. Elsa and Anna are working remarkably well within the storyline, both in present day and in the flashbacks. My fear of them being fanficcy is... err... melting with each episode (pun intended).

2. Emma and Elsa's interactions, I really like them working together.

3. Mary Margaret snapping. I want to hope that they're picking the darkened heart storyline back on, since it had so much wasted potential. But it was a great scene nonetheless.

4. Bo Peep's Storybrooke counterpart. We needed some sassiness! Besides, take off her fancy clothes and you see what a cheap new-money she really was. It also makes me wander: during Regina's Curse, villanis had prominent roles in town, they were basically her entourage. Does that mean that with Snow's Curse, they have now been reduced to more humble jobs?

5. The scene with Regina was heartwarming. Although Henry still sounds like a little j**k.

Things I disliked:

1. Bo Peep's costume was really… ugh. Althourh, after seeing both her Storybrooke persona and just how tacky her place was, I think it was intentionally done over the top to show that deep down she was a really cheap person.

2. Bo Peep's staff. Now seriously, it looked fake bottom-to-top including the uber-fake flowers. Have we become lazy with costumes and props?

3. The CGI at the ice wall. I kind of resigned myself to the fact they're going to use it a lot in the Frozen arc, but you could really tell the pixel on Hook and David's edge. :v

4. The final scene with Elizabeth Mitchell. Please, show, I'm not stupid: I heard what she told Leroy and I saw her turning the molten cream into ice cream, I could take the hint. You could avoid having her freeze half her shop with no plausible in-universe reasons just to show the audience she has ice magic. Keep it subtle, for ice's sake!

Overall, despite the considerable lack of Regina, I really enjoyed the episode. For one, the Charmings are still capable of occasionally keeping up the show on their own, and the Frozen characters support it perfectly. I'm dying for next week's episode now!