Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150413002300/@comment-24936039-20150414044541

Good episode. Even though a lot of people were saying it was Zelena impersonating (or processing) Mariam, I just did not see how/why - it made sense that it was just before Emma/Hook were ready to go back through the portal and AFTER meeting up with blue.

Several points that were not quite resolved for me though:

1. Zelena was green smoke when going through the time portal - where did she get a body again in the EF of the past? (Magic... but that seems rather Deus ex machine - I supposed she could of just processed some random nobody and used a glamor spell to look like her old green self until she came across Mariam - just changed the glamor - and so the Zelena in NYC is still some processed random nobody that she can change appearances  as needed?)

2. Rumples of the past - seems strange he did not sensed\divine that Zelena was disguised as Marian.

3. Gold - was he not in the Café when Emma introduce "Marlena" in Snow Drifts? Again would he not sense it was "Marlena" instead of Mariam?

4. Ingrid - like some speculated, she and Ingrid made some sort of deal and that's why Ingrid froze "Marlena". However, I think it was more collateral damage though. Or maybe Ingrid DID sense it was "Marlena" or rather another magic-user and so decided to freeze her to keep a random factor from interfering with her (wacko) plan of creating a perfect family during the Frozen arc. (After Ingrid's failure, "Marlena" just used the glamor to fake refreezing. Think about it... "Marlena" told Regina that she wouldn't stand in Regina and Robin's way, allowing Regina hopes to rise, just to dash them with the fake refreezing act...  and we know that magic items will still work in the LWM)