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P3nathan wrote: 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 Arthur and Hook really look like they could be brothers to me.

- 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.

- Zeus was one of the more underwhelming cast choices for me. Definitely in my top 5 "Really? Him?" list.

- I have nothing to say about Hook being ressurected. Although if Zeus can do that, it kinda makes him look like a jerk for letting Roland go parentless.

- Rumple is scheming again. Woohoo. I'm so glad they've done away with Hades and 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. So much yes to almost all of this!!

Yes Roland will definitely need some therapy when he's older, I did wonder how he'd react to Marian's death/life/death, or if he'd even be able to understand it. Hopefully Regina can be his new mother now or something.

I agree on Arthur's actor, I did think before it was ridiculous how different the Brothers Jones looked, especially because imo Killian is extremely hot and Liam is far from it.

Zeus's actor was seriously unimpressive. For the King of the Gods you'd expect someone at least a bit stockier. They really did well to cast Poseidon though, but they slipped up here.

Rumple is too annoying now. At least before he did stuff to get revenge/Bae/Belle but now he's being a pr*ck just for the sake of it. And the worst part is he was responsible for the last 2 double finales, its as if the writers just include a RUMPLE SPECIAL every year. "We've just defeated our latest villain, I wonder what Gold is planning now."