Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150928010102/@comment-26159109-20150928080033

My thoughts:

The episode was one of their best written ones.

What I liked:

- The Dagger being a part of Excalibur.

- The Rose

- Emma's conflicts with dark temtations felt more natural and not as forced as it was in season 4.

- The way they constructed the story.

- Emma and "Rumple" interactions.

- Emma in the final scene.

What I didn't like:

- Merida. I think they should have cast a younger actress. She's not bad, but this rebellious behavior works good on the film when the charater is a teen. When a 30 year old grown woman acts like that, it looks ridiculus and pathetic.

- "The Sword in the Stone" reference. I didn't have a problem with the reference itself, It just brings me to the time when Belle had amnesia and I always wonder why didn't anyone make her watch Beauty and the Beast and tell her "This is YOU". I mean it kind of ruins it for me when they acknowledge the movies they are ripping off from, it takes away the magic.

- Another memory lose. couldn't they be more original?!

- More RETCONS:


 * Zelena Protecting her heart EONS ago. appearntly not that long since we saw Regina ripping out her heart. The only explaination I can see here is that she protected her heart with "Blood Magic", but then wouldn't she want to protect her heart from Regina?!?


 * Hook has a potion from Regina when we clearly saw that she just enchanted his hook.I guess the writers suffer from that memory loss their characters seem to have all the time.