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

So, I did not really find any topic discussion the whole of the episode together as a together put episode and thought I would open one to discuss and even critique things.

First off, todays episode really really made up for a lot of  episodes when the story was not moving very fast. I suppose the authors were saving the best for the last. However unlike last season finale, I felt there were too many things happening together.

First off, Rumple, Regina, Hook in same team with Emma and Family charming will need some getting used to. In a major twist, almost all our known villains/anti heroes are temporarily on the good guy side and once again Emma and Regina teaming up for Henry or because of Henry. This thing never gets old.

A whole season was spent and then finally when they stare death in eye, the much awaited family reunion happens for family charming. I cannot say it was much believable to me. It seems all of a sudden Emma realise they are her mom and dad, until 5 minutes back she was calling them in first name.

The pace of the story was too fast. It almost seemed townspeople, other major or minor characters who formed the backbone of the story was almost suddenly made to appear to remind us of what SB is. BUt its a good feeling to see all those people back again. Ruby was missing, it was pretty big flaw imo. She was an integral part of the entire story, looking after Henry quite a few times.

Rumple and his transformation, initially trying to kill Henry but then jumping on the ship despite the prophecy was done quite well.

It seemed finally both Hook and Rumple have found their inner call to be unselfish.

The best part was Hook and Baelfire. It almost echoed Regina and her desperate attempt to win Henry over and kids before her. But I wish part of it was done in last week's episode. The emotional struggle, the bonding between the two and the breaking of tie could have been shown much better. This gave a feeling of getting over with the story to create a prelude to peter pan track.

IT seems Philip has awakened. So season3 will have an interesting twist for it. And Rumple seems to know Greg and Tamara are mere pawns for something big, but why did it not occur to him before? greg has been around for quite a while now.

The dwarves and bella regaining memory was also an important plotline, and rushed into.

All in all, it seemed a lot of things have been crammed into this episode to make it action packed and give a hint to what to expect come fall. Still, The Finale rocked and I still loved it.

PS: Hook having father figure type feeling for Bae just drowned my captain swan ship. And to all those who predicted about Hook Bae meeting and how it will go, kudos. I doff my hats off you guys. It happened just the way you guys speculated. 