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After watching it twice, I think I've decided how I feel about it.

The episode as a whole was fairly middleground for me. It was okay, but far from one of the best. I kinda feel like they tried to fit a few too many different things into this one episode, so perhaps that's why certain bits fell a bit flat.

- Robin's death was one of the things that fell flat for me. He's not a character I'm particularly invested in, but even so, it just felt a bit hollow. I did get sad seeing Roland at the funeral though... I mean he loses his mother, then gets her back, but oh nope it's not her and she was dead afterall, and now his father is dead too. Poor kid.

- I actually quite like how they dealt with Arthur. Sticking to his original ending (his death) while putting their own twist on it. Also, I feel like the guy playing Arthur should have been cast as Liam, because they really look like they could be brothers.

- Hades. What an anticlimax. Bex sold the scene for all it was worth... but wow he was a lot of buildup for what we ended up with.

- Rumple is scheming again. Woohoo. I'm so glad they've mixed things up so that we can have this huge change of pace. (Sarcasm). Seriously though, the tedium and repetitiveness is overpowering my love for Bobby at this point. With each passing arc, I'm wishing more and more that Rumple had been left at the end of 3A.