We had 4 different stories in this episode:
We started with 2 flashback scenes:
First was the opening scene in Minneaopolis 1989 with a showing of Disney's The Sword in the Stone ,which truthfully came out in theaters around 20 years earlier, with a Young Emma and a mysterious Usher telling her not to doo something bad even it is for a good reason. He said she'd have a chance to tak Excalibur but to not do it.
The other flashback was our first appearance of Camelot characters including Arthur, Percival,Kay, and a return of Lancelot finding Excalibur which is in the same beach that Rumple and his father went to when they went to Neverland for the first time. Kay tries to take the sword but he just turns into dust,. Arthur takes the sword which is reveled to be broken and the top half of Excalibur is revealed to be the Dark One's dagger. This, I thought, is the one of the best reveaals the show has had.
So our main two plots were:
In Storybrooke, Regina, Robin, Snow, Charming, Hook, Henry, and Belle trying to find a way to get to Emma who is in the Enchanted Forest.
In the Enchanted Forest, Emma comes out of the Dark One fault last seen in 3B when Rumple was resurrected. Speaking of Rumple, the Darkness decided to show itself to Emma in Rumple's form to "help" her embrace the darkness.
Fist I'll talk about the Storybrooke plot:
Hok tries to call Emma with the dagger but doesn't work since she;s not in this world. They go to asl help from the Apprentice who gives them a wand that can travel realms, but needs both dark and liget to travel. Regina thinks it's her but, according to Hook, sshe's gone soft and ddone too much good. There's only one peson they can get to help, but Regina's not interested in getting Zelena to help.
Mother Superior gives Belle the rose from Beauty and the Beast to let her know if Rumple is going to wake up.
Hook goes and asks Henry to write the darkness out of Emma, since he's the author now. Henry tells him he brok it because no one should have that much. Then Hook recruits Henry too help them get Zelena out.
I've seen online that a lot of people seem to have a problem with Hook and Hernry's plot in this episode, saying that Hook's a bad influence on Henry, but I don't see it. Truthfully, Hook is the only one that is letting Henry do something now. This is the same kid who, at 10 years old, stole a credit card from his teacher and traveled from Maine to Boston to find Emma. Also, when he was 13 (S4 finale), driving by himself all the way from Maine to New York. Also, what danger was Henry in during their mission? Henry was just the distraction. They knew who Zelena was as well
I liked the Regina and Henry scenes last year, but think about it for a second. What did they know about the authr when they started Operation Mongoose? That he wrote a book that's completely true. They didn't know if he was a good guy or bad guy at all. And what did this lead to... Henry being tied up by this author they were searching for to be ogre food and almost killed by his own grandfather.
So in which mission was Henry put in more danger?
Back to this episode, Hook and Regina's fights kind of reminded me of Captain Swan and Swan Queen fights online, and Snow is the neutral shipper saying we should focus on what the show's really about at the moment which is finding Emma.
Regina tricks Zelena into opening up a twister for them to take to Emma, which everyone goes to Granny's to travel in. I loved Henry and Roland's interactions in this scene. The dwarves coming in and wanting to come along to Enchanted Forest with them was great.
So now to Emma's plot in the Enchanted Forest:
Emma comes out of the Dark One's vault and is greeted by Spirit Rumple, that's what I'm going to call him in my reviews. I thought this was a great way to keep Robert around while Mr. Gold is in a coma in Storybrooke. Spirit Rumple tells Emma how she can find Merlin, which leads her into running into Merida. I loved Merida in this. Emma and Merida team up for a little bit before Emma mistakenly talks out load to Spirit Rumplw with Merida right next to her. Later, right when Emma is about to crush Merida's heart, that's when the Storybrooke crew arrives and Hook stops her. Something to note: Spirit Rumple is still behind Emma when she's hugging her parents, but not when she's hugging Hennry or Hook. Snow and Charming think they should give the dagger, but Emma decides to give it to Regina because she's the only one who would do what's necessary if it came to be the only choice.
The Storybrooke crew takes Ema back to Granny's which is now in the Enchanted Forest. Arthur shows up with a couple other Camelot kniights saying that Merlin phroposized that they would be there. So he leads the whole group to Camelot
Now the ending...
We jump to Six weeks later in Storybrooke with everyone returning, and they've lost their memories of what happened in Camelot over the 6 weeks and Emma has now trned Dark.
I know some peoople have a problem with them reusing the memory loss plot, but what other ways could they do this plot?
1. They could have the present day be the Camelot adventure, but then for flashbacks they'd either have to do flashbacks for the Camelot characters or go the already crowded pre-curse timeline to do flashbacks from there.
2. I saw this somewher saying they could have had everyone come back to Storybrooke with different memories with only one person has the right memories, but if they have Camelot fllashbacks like they're doing now then right when the flashbacks match up with that one person, we'll know ho has the real memories but the characters won't.
3. If they still wanted to do present Storybrooke and past Camelot without losing memories,the writers would have to find someway for the characters to talk about what happended in Camelot without revealing it to the audience.
Best Moments from each starring character:
Snow: when she was stopping Regina and Hook from from fighting, like a mother te;;ing two kids to stop arguing
Emma: All her interaction in the Enchanted Forest were great.
Regina: Her arguments with Hook annd her reaction to Emma giving her the dagger
David: (He was kind of just in the background for this episode, so I can't think of)
Belle: When Mother Superior gave her the rose
Hook: His arguments with Regina and team up with Henry, how he stopped Emma from crushing Mrida's heart, "Spirit Rumple" disappearing when he was hugging Emma.
Henry: His teamup with Hook and "Spirit Rumple" disappearing when he was hugging Emma.
Zelena: She was mostly here purely for comedy and a way for them to get to Emma, but I can't think of one moment of hers I liked better than the others
Robin: His confusion on what happened to Emma and being able to tell right away that Zelena was posing as Regina
Rumplestiltskin: All of Spirit Rumple's scenes were great.
Final Thoughts:
I think this was the strongest premiere episode they've had since S2. Every starring cast member got some moments in this episode.
This gets a perfect 10/10 from me.
So that's all for this episode, see you tommorow for my 5x02 Review.
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