The final line of the episode should've been..."Emma...we have to go baaack!" If you cut out the one year later bit it sort of works as a series finale. The time jump helps with Jared Gilmor/Henry's age matching more closely. So the Fairy Tale book was part of the Rumple's backdoor into the curse. That was pretty obvious but it's pretty much confirmed now. Looks like the prophecy that the boy would be Rumple's undoing was about Pan...tho I'm sure Rumple will be back some how. Nice promo... Spoiler The Wicked Witch!
Umm, except for the fact that it wasn't. We still have a full half-season to go and will more than likely get a fourth season on top of that.
Depends on how you look at it. If it weren't for Henry giving Pan his heart then none of that would have happened. And I certainly hope Rumple will be back. He's one of my favorite characters on this show.
Yep mid season was awesome now is it me or did they totally for go rumple prophecy when it turned out that pan was his father where did that come from? Also i love how hook's kiss did nothing for the curse. So we no balefire should've gone instead. Though the ending had a back to the future theame to it
^Pan was revealed as Rumple's father a few episodes back. That was a great episode, and I'm glad there's only a short wait, although if that's the mid-season cliffhanger I dread to think what they're going to leave us with in the summer! Very emotional stuff, and I really hope Rumple isn't gone for good. I can't imagine he will be since Carlyle is the strongest actor on the show but who knows. Can't wait to find out what happens next!
I feel the need to make sure people understand one super-important fact about what happened last night: Pan's Curse never hit. Emma and Henry's false memories are a result of Regina casting upon them the same spell she used on Belle back in "Lacey", and everybody else going back where they came from was the 'price' extracted for Regina stopping Pan's Curse (which she did).
I know, that's the shame of it. Now the show will go on another 5 seasons as it slowly fades from glory.
Wanted to like this episode, but I was kinda distracted the whole time wondering why it was taking so damn long for the curse cloud to make it the town-- to the point where it just started to seem more and more ridiculous as time went on. We've seen how fast the cloud has hit in the past, and yet somehow this one takes the entire freakin episode to reach them?? You'd think the cloud was coming from 5 states away or something, and not just from the neighboring forest! Lol
Yeah, that was straining it a bit. Obviously not all the townspeople were at the boundary of Storybrooke as well so some of them must still have been in the town when the curse was spreading through.
One observation: When Mr Gold was in his shop trying to get the anti-magic bracelet off, it looked like he planned to cut his hand off to get it off, but when he arrived in the town square, he still had both hands.
He was going to do that, but then came to terms with things and the prophecy and was ready to make the sacrifice.
Well yes, obviously. The point is it would have made an excellent series finale since everything was wrapped up neatly.
Probably the way they went with it. Of course, had they been smarter, he could have figured out that he, you know, has magic. So once he cuts his hand off, he'll have his magic back, and then can heal his hand/reattach/whatever. Makes a lot more sense in my head, at least, just grow it back once you get your magic.
That's what I thought he had done in the first place. He healed Dr. Whale when he got his arm torn off.
Yes and no. Perfect for Emma and Henry, but not for anyone else. No happy endings for the rest of the tribe. I just wonder why Hook remembers everything, is it because he's "special" or does everyone remember? ETA: I would ecstatically lobby for the return of the Huntsman, if not for the recent "50 shades of gray" recasting news.