Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20130513172010/@comment-8345449-20130515091018

Some thoughts after watching:

1. All the villians - Hook, Regina and Gold - suddenly turning into heroes in one episode seems a bit much, even if it is the season finale.

2. Belle's 'superpower' of detecting good in people appears to be about as reliable as Emma's since she once told Hook that he was rotten to the core.

3. So the failsafe could have been deactivated with the combined power of any two reasonably strong magicians? That means Gold and Regina could have done it, or Mother Superior and Regina, or all the fairies (nuns) could have combined their power. Wonder why Regina didn't think of it in the first place...

4. Belle suddenly recovering her memories just like that???

5. Why did Hook need the bean at all to escape Storybrooke's destruction? He wasn't affected by the curse in the first place so he could have sailed away from its borders without losing his memories. Same with Tamara and Greg, why didn't they just activate the failsafe and then run away, why stick around?