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OUAT Rewatch: Season 7

I finally finished my rewatch today!

Overall thoughts:

~ I was thoroughly prepared to dislike this season, since it started with such a weird and repetitive premise, and got rid of some of the most important characters (Emma, Snow, and David). To my surprise, I really enjoyed the season, and it actually had some of the best bits of writing and acting in the whole show!

~ The actor playing adult Henry does a pretty good job of maintaining the same mannerisms and personality as young Henry!

~ Lana Parilla really shines in this season!

~ I can’t believe I’m saying it, but this season felt kind of like the first! It captured some of the sense of intrigue and suspense that characterized Season 1, when there were so many stories coming together and so many mysteries being unraveled.

~ The biggest plot hole is the existence of Henry’s book. Did he really write it? Did he really publish it? How does it exist within the cursed Hyperion Heights? It seems like part of Henry’s cursed persona, but it wouldn’t make sense for that to be part of the curse, because it reveals so much. Did fate or other forces make it appear, like the first storybook, so the curse could be broken?

Episode 7x01 “Hyperion Heights”

~ Regina wearing purple!!!

~ If Henry has just finished high school, and he was 14 at the end of Season 6, then about four years must have gone by! What was it like for his extended family? Did he split his time between Regina’s house and Emma and Hook’s? How did he and Hook get along as stepfather and stepson?

~ Henry seems very much like Steven Universe, in the way he strives to help others find their happy endings, yet feels out of place and unsure of his own.

~ I have such mixed feelings about Henry and Regina’s scene. On the one hand, it’s natural for emerging adults to want to leave home for a while, and Regina letting Henry go shows her amazing growth from the first couple seasons, when she was doing everything she could to keep him with her. But for Henry to say he doesn’t belong in Storybrooke sounds contrary to everything he did and said about himself and Emma belonging there in the early seasons, particularly the end of Season 3.

~ Where did Henry get the motorcycle? Did August give it to him and/or teach him how to ride it? And what was Regina’s reaction when she found out he was learning?!

~ How can a realm be “new”? Can they simply be created, like the Wish Realm?

~ Henry really brought a motorcycle to a fairy-tale land?

~ Total The Devil Wears Prada homage!

~ It’s so strange to have Regina/Roni witness the same kind of feud between a biological parent and stepparent that she and Emma once had!

~ Victoria referring to “this street” makes it sound like a turf war rather than gentrification!

~ “When someone needs help, I help them.” Nice sentiment but could have been better written. Katara did it better in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

~ “You’re waiting for the perfect first sentence, but no story is perfect. It just needs to start.” Now that’s a great line!

~ Why did Alice bother trapping Henry if she just let him go?

~ Where did Cinderella learn how to fight? And how could anyone fight in a dress like that?!

~ So this cursed version of Hook has a functional left hand?

~ “Operation Glass Slipper is a go” made me laugh! Henry may have grown up, but some things about him haven’t changed.

~ I can’t believe that Regina is now the character giving inspirational monologues!

~ That last shot seems a little too upbeat. Roni’s cursed life is framed as though it is her real life.

Episode 7x02 “A Pirate’s Life”

~ The name of this episode sounds like an unoriginal reference to the silly song from the Disney ride, but it actually has a dark element since Wish Realm Hook tries to steal original Hook’s life!

~ I love that Hook continues training Henry in swordfighting! But Henry’s self-deprecating angst feels so OOC.

~ Such a sweet scene with Hook and Emma!

~ I love that when Henry is in trouble he immediately calls for his parents—all three of them!

~ Finally a Captain Cobra hug!

~ Hook has no patience for other versions of himself, whether past, future, or alternate reality!

~ Hook is still way too easy for other people to overpower and/or capture. You would think a “survivor” like him would be better at defending himself and evading capture.

~ I’m surprised that it’s so easy for Wish Realm Hook to permanently take on the appearance of original Hook, to the point that it carries over into the Land Without Magic. What happened to “magic always comes with a price”? And if it were that easy for a non-magically-gifted person to take on someone else’s appearance, wouldn’t lots of people take advantage of it?

~ “You never have to see me again” sounds like a callback to Snow White’s words to Charming when they first met!

~ Weaver’s words about a daughter being the greatest vulnerability is huge foreshadowing when spoken to Rogers/Hook!

~ Whose little cottage is that? Did Regina and Henry just find an empty home and decide to use it?

~ I never thought I’d see Regina telling Hook to act as a father to Henry in any way, let alone to give him “a pirate-y heart-to-heart”!

~ Henry is wise to be suspicious of someone not acting like themselves: he and his family have encountered many people who were impostors or controlled by someone via their heart.

~ Emma is so nervous and excited, and sounds like she is repeating her own train of thought about becoming a parent!

~ “Let’s see who you are” seems to be the theme of Hook’s arc throughout the show, and now of this Wish Hook too!

~ Each Hook learns to have compassion for his other self!

~ Who ever would have thought that Henry, Regina, and Hook would form their own fellowship? It’s odd, but I love it!

~ Was that ballet music from Swan Lake? That would be quite fitting!

Episode 7x03 “The Garden of Forking Paths”

~ If Cinderella drove the motorcycle from the ball, how could the knights or Tiana have caught up to her?

~ I didn’t expect Henry to find Cinderella so quickly!

~ I can’t believe they recycled the plotline of Archie and Henry in the mines, and acknowledged it in the script!

~ Cinderella should have realized it was way too easy to get into Lady Tremaine’s manor.

~ How did Cinderella guess that Henry was the one with the purest heart?

~ Why would Jacinda trust such an offer from Victoria? She should at least get it in writing that there would be a condo for her and Lucy.

~ Burning the petition is actually a betrayal of everyone who signed it.

~ Regina stopped someone from making the same mistake(s) she made, particularly sacrificing her father’s heart! So great to see!

~ Jacinda’s speech scene is really cheesy, and kind of overdramatic. Little to nothing has been shown about why the community garden really matters.

~ It’s amazing to see Regina acting as a mentor to someone, and I wouldn’t have expected it to be her future daughter-in-law!

~ They act as though a petition would immediately resolve everything, but that kind of red tape takes time to process!

~ This episode almost feels like a movie.

Episode 7x04 “Beauty”

~ How fitting that Belle’s first episode was called “Skin Deep” and this one is called “Beauty”! I think those are the only episodes of the show that take place on a holiday, and each one is appropriate to its theme: the Rumbelle romance starts during a Valentine’s Day episode, and Belle dies in a Halloween episode. And both episodes reveal Rumplestiltskin/Gold to be “awake,” that is, aware of his true identity!

~ Belle and Gold always talk about how she wanted “to see the world,” but there are actually several worlds they can visit!

~ “I’d rather eat carbs” = They’re totally milking the Devil Wears Prada parallels!

~ Never thought we’d see a blonde Regina, or a Regina who gives “hope speeches”!

~ They seriously used a Frozen costume?

~ Tilly seems like the “wise fool” archetype.

~ THEY FIXED THE TEACUP!

~ I wouldn’t have expected Up to be paired with Beauty and the Beast, but it works for these characters!

~ How sad that the same action that sparked their attraction in her first episode, Belle falling as she opens the curtains, is what signals her death in this episode!

~ Someone walks by in a (cartoon) Belle costume!

~ The scene between Henry and Ivy could have been better written. She wouldn’t open up to him that quickly.

~ So, according to Belle’s interpretation, the only way she and Rumple can be together forever is in death? That’s pretty bleak in one sense.

~ How could Belle continue to age if time was practically still? In other worlds like Neverland, or situations like the Dark Curse, no one ages when time is frozen.

~ Was Gideon offering to kill Rumple with the dagger?!

~ Rogers moves the rook next to the knight!!!

~ Henry and Ivy’s scene at the end feels unnecessary. They already hit the necessary theme and character beats. The episode could have ended with Weaver and Victoria’s scene, which would have been more ominous.

Episode 7x05 “Greenbacks”

~ Comparing belief to a weed is an interesting, unusual analogy. I doubt it’s meant to tie in with the Parable of the Sower; it kind of implies the opposite meaning.

~ Tiana being a fairy-tale princess from birth feels weird.

~ Tiana’s mother’s lines are too expository, telling rather than showing.

~ Wouldn’t “chaos in the land” create more opportunities for heroes to show up?

~ Tiana and her mother pinning their hope on finding a prince to save them, through marriage or otherwise, seems way out of character for them. Movie Tiana did everything she could to pull herself up into a better life all by herself.

~ Why would Tiana seek out Dr. Facilier’s help if she had no way to pay him? Couldn’t she give her necklace or earrings?

~ If Dr. Facilier wanted the ruby in the medal, he could have just named it as the price for his service.

~ Drizella/Ivy being a double agent and playing both sides is a pretty good twist!

Episode 7x06 “Wake Up Call”

~ Henry really kept his Tron lunchbox when he left home for his adult adventures?

~ Regina looks like a completely different person, like a warrior instead of a queen or witch!

~ It’s so funny to see Regina ready to swoop in and protect her son, only for him and his girlfriend to protect themselves!

~ Whereas Regina wanted to crush Henry’s belief in the curse, Roni wants to encourage Lucy’s belief in the hope that it will fade on its own.

~ The season's theme of plants and gardening really becomes apparent in this episode! Drizella refers to magic as something to “cultivate,” and the next scene deals with gardening! And the missing girl’s last name is Gardener!

~ Henry is still drawing on old movies for his real-life actions! Was that fist pump an homage to The Breakfast Club?

~ Regina teaching Drizella to lift rocks = obvious Star Wars reference! But instead of threatening Drizella’s safety, as Regina did with Emma and some Star Wars villains used with their apprentices, Regina endangers herself instead, showing trust that Drizella will save her.

~ “Things are always more fun when you start in the middle.” Sounds like the writers justifying their own story format!

~ “A curse is never worth the cost” seems to go against how it worked out for Snow and Charming when they cast the Dark Curse to return to the Land Without Magic.

~ The way Roni snarls as Ivy leaves is her most Regina-like moment so far this season!

~ Roni is now in a similar situation to Jefferson in Season 1, knowing the truth that her child does not.

Episode 7x07 “Eloise Gardener”

~ Was Victoria aware that Lucy knows/suspects the truth about her?

~ “Abandoning people just isn’t my thing.” Hook proves the truth of his words in this episode!

~ Good setup/payoff with the lullaby!

~ Gothel pretending to be a victim of Victoria is kind of like Hook pretending to be a survivor of Cora’s attack in Season 2.

Episode 7x08 “Pretty in Blue”

~ I didn’t expect Alice and Hook to find each other so quickly, or for their reunion to be shown so soon after the revelation that she is his daughter!

~ That dialogue between Jacinda and Lucy is pointless. It would have been enough to just show them hugging and crying as they say goodbye.

~ Henry and Ella getting caught in the net together is not only a callback to Snow White and Charming, it’s also a nod to the net trap in Return of the Jedi—especially when one of them asks the other to reach for the sword!

~ “No one wants to be the Kathryn.”

~ Lucy sounds so grown-up and mischievous when she says, “I think I know another dragon you could slay.” It’s the kind of line that Emma, Regina, or one of the other adult protagonists would say.

~ Hook being given a possibly poisoned cake is so ironic, since that’s how Captain Hook tries to kill Peter Pan and the Lost Boys in J.M. Barrie’s novel! Regina even gets rid of the cake with the excuse of “Too much sugar isn’t good for you,” just like Wendy!

~ So many parallels between Henry & Ella and Snow & Charming!

~ Another person named Jack who had a bad run-in with giants? That makes him the third.

~ (Spoiler Alert:) Henry and Jack imitating Han Solo and Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back may have been foreshadowing the eventual betrayal!

~ Henry not being there when Jacinda comes to see him is so sad, particularly because it didn’t result from some miscommunication, just from lack of communication.

Episode 7x09 “One Little Tear”

~ I really like that they drew on the original story of Rapunzel, beginning with the theft of the witch’s garden by a desperately poor family and the deal they make with her.

~ Lady Tremaine being Rapunzel was NOT something I saw coming! Now their interactions with Gothel as her prisoner make so much more sense. But how can Drizella be working with the person who took her mother from her?

~ Rumple/Gold/Weaver manages to put Victoria off-balance by revealing that he knows the truth about her at the same moment when he admits the truth about himself.

~ Rogers questioning Victoria about how she escaped, and her saying that she didn’t wait for anyone to help her, perfectly describes the preceding scene of her escape from the tower!

~ Throwing objects at mirrors is supposed to be Regina and Snow’s thing, not Rapunzel/Tremaine’s!

~ Sisters building a snowman harkens to Frozen, but sisters falling through ice harkens to Jo and Amy in Little Women.

~ How did they retrieve Anastasia’s body from the ice? For that matter, how did Marcus and Ella survive their dunk in the water? They both would have died from hypothermia without immediate care.

~ It’s really interesting how Victoria doesn’t try to destroy Lucy’s belief in the fairy tale reality; instead she tries to destroy her belief in happy endings. It’s like the difference between faith in God and faith in God’s goodness; in fact, having strong faith can make the disappointment of suffering even harder to bear.

~ It’s nice to see that Rumple/Gold/Weaver is aware of and cares about his great-granddaughter!

~ I wasn’t expecting Anastasia to awaken and Lucy to be at death’s door so early in the season! Those seem like the kind of events that would happen in a season finale.

Episode 7x10 “The Eighth Witch”

~ I’m so confused by the opening scene. Did Henry and Ella get married before having Lucy? Did Lady Tremaine team up with the resistance against her? Did Henry, Ella, Regina, and Wish Realm Hook really stay with the resistance throughout Ella’s pregnancy? Did they raise Lucy in that realm, or were they just visiting Tiana’s castle for Lucy’s birthday?

~ What makes Drizella’s threat a “prophecy”? She doesn’t have clairvoyance, does she?

~ Is Lucy really supposed to be eight years old in the present day? She looks like she could be ten or twelve!

~ Why would Tiana keep statue-Drizella in such a prominent place in her courtyard?!

~ The Wicked Witch of the West running a cycling class is so OUAT!

~ That was a pretty great entrance for grown-up Robin! It’s nice to see that she has a good relationship with Regina. But I have to wonder what she knows about her father, and whether she knows her brother Roland.

~ “She sure has grown up fast.” “Not in our realm.” What is that supposed to mean?! Which realm did Zelena settle down in, and which one are they referring to?

~ “I’m not here to discuss timelines.” What a cop-out!!! The writers really don’t even care about the passage of time anymore, despite the fact that this show’s theme and structure are centered around time!

~ Zelena is now in the position that Emma was in with Walsh and her fake life in New York!

~ So Zelena is the one giving heroic pep talks now?

~ I’m surprised they showed that flashback scene again!

~ It seems odd for Ella, Henry’s own wife, to stop the others from going after him in order to focus on the bigger problem.

~ So Regina doesn’t have to give up the heart of the thing she loves most again? It’s enough that she did it once?

~ Regina and Henry are basically in the same situation Emma and Hook were when she made him a Dark One to save his life.

~ Hook gave up the chance to be a father to Alice so Ella would be able to remain Lucy’s mother! That’s an incredibly selfless sacrifice.

~ They really decided to make Alice and Robin a couple without any prior buildup.

~ It’s ironic that Gothel once imprisoned Rapunzel in a tower, but now throws her into a pit!

Episode 7x11 “The Secret Garden”

~ “… and we’re going to do it together” is Snow and David’s line, not Regina’s!

~ What makes Zelena suddenly change her mind about teaming up with “Nook”?

~ It makes sense for Hook to decide to trust his gut, since that is the same advice his counterpart gave to Emma in Season 3. But the gut feelings in each situation are opposites: Emma’s told her something was wrong, but Hook’s is telling him that the illusion is the truth.

~ Hook saying “Memento mori,” Latin for “Remember your death,” is pretty ironic—almost uncharacteristic—since everyone talks about how he is a survivor!

~ I laughed out loud when Madame Leota was revealed! Now they’re drawing on Disney rides, not just movies? What’s to stop them from including Jack Sparrow, then?

~ Who was Gothel trying to raise in the séance?

~ “I won’t let them take you” could be interpreted two ways, as protection or imprisonment!

~ The Resurrection Amulet looks like something out of a Marvel movie, not a fairy tale. It reminds me of Tony Stark’s arc reactor heart or the Eye of Agamotto.

~ The part when everyone is shouting at each other while Gothel tries to kill Zelena doesn’t come across well. But the action sequence afterward was cool.

~ “You were going to risk your life for me.” No, she was going to outright sacrifice her life!

~ It’s interesting that Robin met both of Alice’s parents before meeting Alice herself!

~ Once again, the show breaks its own rules. Characters have said before that no magic can bring back the dead, but apparently the Resurrection Amulet can do exactly that.

~ Robin is the first “next generation” character we see dealing with the legacies of her parents.

~ I can’t believe the writers made Gothel the one to wake Lucy, and gave Victoria the “atonement through sacrifice” treatment.

~ I totally saw the blood test confirmation coming, but not Dr. Sage’s death, though in hindsight it was clearly foreshadowed!

~ This might actually be one of the best episodes of the season!

Episode 7x12 “A Taste of the Heights”

~ Henry producing a podcast makes complete sense! If he had been a bit older at the start of the show, he probably would have done that kind of thing about Storybrooke!

~ I knew that man was Naveen as soon as he appeared onscreen!

Episode 7x13 “Knightfall”

~ It’s fascinating to see a version of Hook approach a version of Rumplestiltskin for help, without them having any shared adventures or mutual friends or relatives.

~ I’m surprised to see such a young Ahab, young enough to call Hook an “old man.”

~ Now Maui is real too? Does that mean Moana is real?

~ I love young Alice and the glimpses we get of Hook raising her!

~ It’s so good to finally see Regina and Lucy together, both knowing the truth!

Episode 7x14 “The Girl in the Tower”

~ Alice blowing out the birthday candle is a clear parallel to Emma in the pilot episode!

~ Ivy is actually quite sweet with Henry in this episode.

~ It seems like the writers really like the trope of future lovers attacking and/or trapping each other when they first meet.

~ I’m very surprised that Rogers and Henry would leave Tilly unsupervised, even if they believe in her innocence.

~ Regina letting Lucy snoop around a dangerous voodoo doctor’s lair … seems quite risky, and miles away from the Regina of the first few seasons!

~ Robin hotwiring Sheriff Emma Swan’s yellow bug = a truly legendary feat!

~ So the yellow bug just showed up without a driver to provide a getaway? Like the Weasleys’ car in Harry Potter?

~ How is the tower still intact? Wasn’t it in ruins before Alice and Hook saw each other and Henry and Ella went on their Wonderland adventure?

~ So many actual Alice in Wonderland lines and allusions in this episode!

~ The question of whether you actually exist is more relevant for Alice/Tilly and Wish Hook/Rogers than anyone else, since they come from a realm that only exists because of a wish someone made!

~ I love how this episode explores Alice’s complicated and contradictory emotions about leaving the tower.

~ Alice says “bloody” just like Hook!

~ OMG Alice and Robin read each others’ books!!!

~ Finally, someone offered Tilly an actual, safe place to stay!

~ This may have been one of my favorite episodes of this season!

Episode 7x15 “Sisterhood”

~ It seems weird that Henry has probably spent more time with Wish Hook than with his actual stepfather Hook, to the point that Wish Hook is one of his best friends. How does OG Hook and the rest of his family feel about that?

~ Lucy is just like Henry in the way she sets people up with phone messages and fake invitations!

~ Henry says he “can’t tell if Jacinda and I are meant for each other anymore.” When did he ever feel that they were?

~ I was not expecting Jacinda to walk in after Henry agreed to that ridiculous rom-com-style challenge!

~ So many different characters talk about fate in this episode!

~ Is Henry quoting Star Wars again when he says it’s “an impossible shot”?

~ Gothel is just like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, making people turn on each other by planting fear and doubt about each other’s intentions.

~ The special effects used for Anastasia’s magic are pretty awesome! We don’t often see those kinds of feats in the Land Without Magic, or practical effects in the series as a whole.

~ Drizella’s lines at the climax with Anastasia are uncharacteristically cheesy. And her final line, “I guess you underestimated the power of sisterhood,” is completely unnecessary, just verbalizing what was already implied.

~ I’m surprised that they took Tremaine/Victoria, Drizella/Ivy, and Anastasia out of the story at this point. Was there simply no more room for them?

~ I knew something big would happen with Nick, but I wasn’t expecting him to be the “candy killer”! I had actually wondered, when Gretel talked about her brother traveling under another name, whether Jack/Nick might be Hansel.

Episode 7x16 “Breadcrumbs”

~ This episode plays a lot with what is real and what is fake.

~ Ella kissing Henry for luck is definitely a Star Wars reference!

~ Would it really be so bad to be a character in someone else’s story? It seems rather self-centered for Henry to want to be the heroic main character. And many great stories are about not just one person, but two or more; that’s how it is with most love stories.

~ Why would the killer leave his annotated book behind at the scene of the crime? Did he want it to be found? It seems far too convenient.

~ Hook/Rogers is basically doing the same thing in both timelines, trying to help his kids!

~ If the map and the ring were real, why couldn’t Hook take Henry on a real journey to find Davy Jones’ locker? Just so Henry could have the satisfaction of beating a pirate captain?

~ “I don’t need a great story. I just want a great life.”

~ It’s great to see Henry, who has always been into great stories and grand gestures, to realize he does not need all that to impress Ella or get what he really wants, a family.

~ Is that realm simply called the “magical kingdom”?

Episode 7x17 “Chosen”

~ How can there be starving children in Arendelle? How dare that witch malign Elsa that way!

~ That teaser seems positively cartoonish.

~ Mickey Mouse-shaped pancakes!

~ It’s interesting to see Zelena be one of the characters that is trying to move on from her past but feels it catching up to her, like Regina, Rumple, and Hook in previous seasons.

~ Shouting that Kelly has a real daughter and fiancé was a really dumb move on Henry’s part.

~ I was wondering when Chad would show up; but I’m surprised that he turned out to be a truly normal guy, unconnected with the fairy tales. This show has made me expect twists.

~ I guess the title “Chosen” refers to both Weaver’s joke about Zelena and Chad choosing to be with her.

Episode 7x18 “The Guardian”

~ Weaver saying “Be my guest” probably wasn’t an intentional Beauty and the Beast reference, but it’s still funny!

~ That rotating shot of Alice entering Facilier’s house is pretty cool!

~ I had wondered whether Alice could use magic, since her mother is a witch!

~ Alice’s test scene is fascinating! Rumplestiltskin’s impish form comes out as he slips into that old, crazy way of talking. It’s also kind of the opposite of how he pushed Regina to crush hearts in order to turn her evil; instead he’s trying to prove that Alice is pure of heart.

~ Aside from the irony that this series actually showed the Underworld, it’s interesting to see characters in a TV show talk seriously about what the afterlife might be like.

~ Belle’s echoed lines might have been better delivered as a flashback in Rumple’s head.

~ It’s amazing that after all the times Rumple grasped at the dagger because he was afraid of losing his power, he now chooses it against his own self-interest, because he does not want to burden someone else with it.

~ I wouldn’t have expected any Hook’s child to have Rumplestiltskin as a father figure, but that’s what their dynamic ends up feeling like! I guess Alice/Tilly is like the daughter Rumple/Gold/Weaver never had.

~ What I don’t understand is what Hook and Rumple did for the eight or so years before the curse. Did they simply put their respective quests on hold?

~ Regina/Roni and Weaver’s scene is amazing! Regina is finally fed up enough to cut ties with him.

~ They just had to give Henry another Star Wars allusion!

Episode 7x19 “Flower Child”

~ It’s so exciting and satisfying to see the various characters piecing together the truth! It’s a different direction than the first season went in.

~ Why/how would the curse bring Henry’s belongings from Storybrooke and Ella’s glass slipper into Jacinda and Lucy’s home?

~ So, Gothel is the origin of the magic beans, and the Land Without Magic? But how does she fit into the Wish Realm?

~ I wasn’t expecting Samdi/Facilier to actually do something good! I thought he was using Lucy for his own ends.

~ So, Jacinda just lets Lucy run off unsupervised?

~ I don’t like that Facilier was killed off. We never get a definitive answer about his intentions, whether he was good or evil at his core. I guess he’ll forever be a mystery.

Episode 7x20 “Is This Henry Mills?”

~ Regina was part of that coven?!

~ So Storybrooke has a college! I had wondered about that, since no one aged during the first curse. Did it open after the curse was broken?

~ How does Lucy even know Weaver? Is she aware that he is her great-grandfather Rumplestiltskin?

~ GRANNY!

~ Time travel?! So that’s why the story is still in the “present day” rather than a decade or two in the future. But wasn’t that supposed to be impossible, outside of the one time Zelena succeeded in casting such a spell?

~ Regina and Henry’s scene in the bar might be one of the best in the whole series! The writing and emotional acting are fantastic.

~ I guess if Alice from Wonderland had magic, she would use it to change people’s sizes!

~ Tiny was the one who gave Henry the magic bean!? Where has he been since Season 2?

~ How can Regina/Roni say she has nothing left to lose? Her family is still alive!

~ I knew Henry was going to break the curse by kissing Regina!

~ Henry’s letter to Regina is beautiful!

Episode 7x21 “Homecoming”

~ They never provide a caption for time or place when it would actually be helpful! I spent the whole teaser wondering if it was Henry from the Enchanted Forest or the Wish Realm.

~ Friendzoning is painful no matter what realm you’re in!

~ Starfish sounds like such a silly nickname, but Colin O’Donoghue manages to deliver it with so much sadness, it’s heartbreaking!

~ How long was the curse in effect? How long did it take Lucy to figure out that they were cursed?

~ It’s so weird to see Rumplestiltskin, with scaly skin and old-fashioned clothes, in a modern-day setting!

~ Regina, Gold, and (a version of) Hook—the three villainous protagonists throughout the series—drinking together and toasting to revenge is oddly fitting!

~ Why would Hook assume that this rescue mission is a last grand adventure?

~ Cruella de Vil using a sword is not something I ever expected to see!

~ The music during Henry and Cruella’s fight is my jam!

~ I love that Henry raises the question, “Who really deserves a happy ending?”

~ “The one enemy I can never defeat is myself.” So relatable!

~ This finale feels like Avengers: Endgame, with all different minor characters making appearances and past formative events being revisited!

~ I can’t believe how self-aware these lines were, while still managing to sound poetic: “That is indeed a complicated story. The timelines alone would make one’s head spin. Only a true Author could weave such a tale.”

~ I love the Apprentice’s next line, “Every story an Author has ever written lives in his heart.”

~ The way the Apprentice leans on his sword at the end of his scene makes it look almost like the Sword in the Stone!

~ Ever since Regina killed the Wish Realm versions of Snow and David, and took Emma back to Storybrooke, I wondered what happened to Wish Realm Henry. No one ever seemed concerned about what happened to him, which was really weird. I’m glad they finally addressed that!

~ ABOUT BLOODY TIME they got back to Storybrooke!

Episode 7x22 “Leaving Storybrooke”

~ Grumpy/Leroy is unusually cheerful!

~ Having a “Leaving Storybrooke” sign for the title sequence pulled at my heartstrings!

~ Pulling others to wallow in one’s darkness sounds like the Devil being lonely in Hell.

~ Regina and Robin Hood’s dream scene is beautiful!!! “Our story was so short.” “That doesn’t make it any less epic.”

~ Regina finally got the feather from Robin!!! It only took two seasons!

~ Rumple saw Hook as the closest thing he had to a friend? I can’t really buy that.

~ Was there some deleted scene of Zelena helping Robin and Alice get to the Wish Realm? And how did they get Maui’s fishhook to the others?

~ “Aren’t spells just stories of a kind?” More like the other way around: stories are basically spells that entrance the audience. I’m pretty sure there’s an etymological connection.

~ They brought the Blue Fairy back just so they could kill her off?

~ Hook and Robin’s scene is so sweet! Since she grew up without a father, it’s nice to see her gain a father figure.

~ Wait, so Snow and David came from Storybrooke to help Henry? Why weren’t they with Zelena, Robin, and Alice when they arrived in the Wish Realm?

~ Does that roundtable meeting at Regina’s castle take place in the original Enchanted Forest, or the Wish Realm version?

~ How did Snow and David get the storybooks without Wish Rumple or Wish Henry noticing?

~ How would Wish Rumple’s plan work, if there are alternate versions of everyone across the realms?

~ “You don’t do the right thing for a reward. You do it because it’s right.”

~ Rumple giving his heart to save (a version of) Hook and Hook’s child is an amazing twist, given their history with hearts and children!

~ If they were taken back in time, how was Rumple able to be reunited with Belle? Wouldn’t she still be alive at that point in the timeline?

~ What about Gideon?! He and Rumple never got to say goodbye! Does he spend the rest of his life without either of his parents?

~ So, the young version of Henry seen at the end is the Wish Realm version, right? Because the present-day young version is off having his adventures in other realms?

~ How do they reconcile Regina becoming the Good Queen and all the future and alternate versions of everyone being in Storybrooke, without messing up the timeline? They pretty much let go of all the Back to the Future logic that characterized Emma and Hook’s time-traveling.

~ Did they really hold an election for a single person to rule all the realms? What about the established leaders of the various realms? And how could Regina be elected without knowing about it?

~ Regina didn’t want to be crowned without Emma and Hook there!

~ Smee is back!!! But is it the original Smee or Wish Realm Smee?

~ That ending montage of flashbacks with Regina’s voiceover was beautiful. This season began and ended with voiceover monologues from Regina.

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