Well review of sorts as I’m over a week late.

1) Why did he say Emma and Regina? Did it have to be actual names for the magic? It was weird not to hear “my moms”.

2) I really loved Regina going “I’m his mother” but erm explanations please. Like how did they make a portal directly to Henry? Why are they all not really weirded out that Henry has aged by years, but clearly they haven’t? I mean I know it’s hard to tell how long it’s been due to the different actors and then this flashback is 10 years ago from present day. Ugh I have a headache.

3) What the hell????? I can tell I’ve reached the dubbed dialogue and please sweet Merlin don’t tell me RC is playing Weaver as a cockney? He had his normal accent last episode. I’m going to cry. This is painful. It’s completely wrecking this for me. Different accents work for imp!Rumple but this is just wrong.

I don’t know if I can watch.

It’s like audio and visual doesn’t gel. I’ve seen RC in other roles with the wrong accent but I wasn’t invested in those. I get it’s a character choice and I’m being quite selfish about it but dammit I feel like having a tantrum. I mean, alright I admit it, a big part of the attraction is the accent. I was loving the casual look and the whole cop thing but it’s utterly ruined by the accent.

4) I’m not really clear on how wish!Hook travelled to the real alternate realm, but they didn’t explain how Regina and Hook did either. Also makeup wasn’t as good at aging him up as it was for the wish!episode. Ok how did wish!Hook know Lady Tremaine? This whole “real or not real” debate just exploded.

5) Colin is a fantastic actor. He’s doing great at playing fake!Hook trying to be Hook in this flashback.

6) Henry is persisting in saying Emma and I thought he had pretty much completely swapped over to mom. I know that was potentially confusing at times as it was interchangeable but I was never confused. It was always very clear and while I 110% support Regina as Henry’s mom, Emma is his mom just as much in many ways. They had the fake memories of her raising him. They are family.

7) What Emma jumped realms separately now too? Seriously how easy is it? How are they doing this?

8) Wait wish!Hook has a kid? A witch captured her and he snuck in to play chess. She is my knight, he had her rook. His heart was poisoned so he couldn’t save her, true love the only cure. That’s a sad story but, but major point here …

a) Emma wasn’t even willing to try and save him. She just started with the excuses. Shouldn’t she have tried before saying magic didn’t work? Or said she was worried about the price? After all healing Robin of a mortal wound brought the fury, Emma could have been worried about her pregnancy but they didn’t say any of that.

b) Far more importantly – the Hook we are watching, the cursed!Hook is a completely different character. Isn’t that like saying Hook only existed for CaptainSwan? Or saying that the characters of Emma and Hook together don’t work independently so only reboot Hook can work on his own? Either way it seems odd. I mean surely fans of the character would want the character they have been invested in for years?

9) I love Weaver standing up to Belfry, saying she doesn’t own him, and also telling fake!Hook, cursed!Hook, wish!Hook? I don’t know what to tag, that he was glad to have found a moral core – that he wanted that. It’s another mystery to Weaver.

10) I really like that Henry asked Regina to stay as her story wasn’t over either. I liked Regina’s enthusiastic “could this be one of your operations?” as it added some much needed levity to what could otherwise have been very emotional.