Once Upon a Time: ‘Villains don’t get happy endings’

We knew Pan was a terrible father, but actually admitting that he never loved his son, that is harsh. I guess he’s had some years to get good with the magic because I would think if he was that good of a magician before, he wouldn’t have been such a terrible conman.

R.I.P., Felix. You should have known that being Pan’s right-hand man would end badly…for you.

I liked the moment between Snow and Emma in Rumple’s shop. They are both still holding on to their guilt about giving up their respective children, but seeing that guilt in the other person helps each one to get closer to accepting they were doing what they had to do at the time.

ONCEUPONATIME_Y3_D311-F055_001_preHook and Tink did *not* meet cute. Both were in a dark place at the time (and I don’t just mean the Neverland forest) and she had a knife against his throat. But brooding Hook is still Hook, and, yes, he does come on to her. We learn that he will risk his life for love and revenge, and he was focusing on the latter at this moment in flashback. Tink brings that back up when they face Pan’s Shadow in the present day and neither applies; he says there is a third thing: well, duh, I think it is a well established that Hook will do anything for self-preservation. Also: Emma, but she falls under “love.”

How *did* that book of fairy tales end up in Mary Margaret’s closet? The flashback was a little strange, however, given how much the actor who plays Henry has grown.

The Pan-Henry switch resolved itself a little too easily in my opinion. Yeah, they had to get a wand and blah, blah, blah, but the actual spell and switch was a blink-and-you-missed-it kind of thing. I would have thought Pan would have had a contingency plan. However, it sounds like he was, literally, asleep at the switch (heh!).

Wow, Rumple stabbing himself and his father in the heart at the same time was a serious feat. I’m not sure why it led to Pan reverting to his older form, but I think it made for a more meaningful exchange between the two rather than Rumple talking to a kid younger (in appearance, anyway) than his own son. But where did they go? Are they really dead or just back in Story Book Land.

Breaking the curse means destroying the town and they all have to go back to their original lives in Story Book Land. Except Henry, because he was born in Phoenix, and Emma, who, as the savior, will protect him. They will never see any of the rest of them again — or even remember having met them. I’d wondered how they could put Henry and Emma together then given they met in Storybrooke, but the show explains it away: Regina will implant new memories as if Emma had never given him up and they’d always been together.

“Happy endings aren’t always what we think they’ll be.” So true, Snow, so true.

Given that Henry did not take the book of fairy tales with him, I wonder if it will turn up again in someone’s closet.

One year later, there is a knock on Emma’s door while she and Henry are eating breakfast. I soooo knew it was Hook. Of course, he’d think if he kissed her she’d get her memories back. Not…with a knee to the groin for emphasis. Her family is in danger, he says. She thinks he is a total nutcase and slams the door on him. Something in her face makes me think, however, that there may have been some kind of twinge she can’t explain. Plus, how could one not get a twinge when kissed by Hook?

Until March, peeps!

–Julie Domel

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