Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180303031359/@comment-25926288-20180824024914

I disagree with all of that.

In that, I think you’re overblowing things. It was “meh” at worst.

I think it’s the exact opposite with Adam and Eddy as they always have exposition dumps in their episodes (if you haven’t noticed, and they are still up there in terms of favorite episodes). Rumple is exposition the character, lol.

The episode was fine, just generic and expository filler. More like a catch up episode (oh, here’s Robin who we really need to bring up to speed).

I think the greater issue is that you sort of feel like the two halves weren’t planned together. Then again, I’m critiquing this episode as setting up something they had a vague idea in 10, but didn’t think much about how to execute that with whatever they had planned as the end goal.

Case and point: Gothel.

7A: Simple early on with a last minute edition.

Plan A: Gothel wants the Guardian. Plan B: Bring back her Coven.

7B: Add On (as in 7x11) and then forget about her until her centric.

Plan B: Same....Plan C: Steal Guardian magic, which is contrary to everything presented thus far. Plan D: Go back to plan B, trim it down, kill all humans.

You can see this episode as a sort of partner to 7x10. Eighth Witch tossed a lot of exposition and stuff at us, Secret Garden had to clean it up.