Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160321010032/@comment-26159109-20160323153505

Here are my thoughts about the episode: it wasn't bad, it was better than the previous episode, unfortunately I still remember season 2 even though the writers try to rewrite it. I remember exactly who Hook was and who Rumple was. While both of them are at fault for this fued, they treat it like it's solely Rumple's, but if you look back at 204, Hook was portrayed as a womanizing sex predator, a bully and a jerk, so forgive me for not buying his sudden change when he met Milah.

I hate that they try to retcon Rumple and paint him as one who can do no right just to glorify Hook who they try to make him as the one who can do no wrong. Everything good that Rumple has done is forgotten, while everything despicable that Hook has done is either excused, whitewashed or swept under the rug. It's okay for characters to have flaws, but when those flaws are not acknowledged, it just makes the characters seem selfish and hypocrites.

Rumple's episodes such as 108, 119, 204, 214, 304 and 308 were always the strongest of the series and all of them fit well together. This one compared to them was weak and it doesn't fit, mainly because of all the retcons and characters iconsistencies

