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I'd say this is my favourite episode of the season, possibly of the last couple of seasons. There are two things that bother me a bit, but not very much actually.


 * I was rooting like hell for Regina and Zelena to set aside their differences, but I was hoping that that would happen naturally in time. Regina has showed many signs of genuine concern for Zelena (even if she tried to hide them behind her trademark snarkiness), while Zelena was kind of getting over herself and accept Regina: I would have loved them to join forces without the amnesia-b-gone plot twist, but the episode was so well built I didn't really mind.


 * I loved Cora in this episode and I think her arc has paid off spectacularly despite being very short. To be honest, I thought for such a great villain as she has been it would have been a fitting end to embrace her fate and be consumed by the fire like she was going to do, knowing that even if the one right thing she did at the very end didn't cancel out her past, she still did right. The happy ending took away a bit of that, I would have preferred a bittersweet one, like a great character going down with great style. But that's a very minor detail.

I loved pretty much everything else, but it's such a pot of feels that I can't even begin to analyse it. I've got just one observation regarding point one above:


 * The flashback saved the fast-forward reconciliation perfectly. Regina and Zelena realising they have been actually just looking for each other all these years because once they cared for each other was emotionally powerful enough to make the trick work. So in the end I don't mind how they played the whole thing up. Also, as others noted, Barbara, Lana and Bex did such an amazing job that… well, that alone makes up for the writing trick.