Quite liked this one as well. And put me in the loser camp 'cause I thought the whole opening with the NorthStar bit was great.

14) This is the big thing I took away from the episode. It did absolutely nothing to show Regina as a bad ruler(unless she was getting vengeful towards Snow) which is something you might want to show when you are doing the story of "Snow decides to fight for her kingdom", and it did everything to paint Charming and…

During the fight with the Lost Boys, Hook has a brief one-on-one bit with the head Lost Boy(the one with the club who talked to Rumple last week) and he says "Remember what I did to Rufio? I have a far worse fate for you."

Hook mentioned killing Rufio, which was nice.

Great, I kind of hate this show now.

All of that wood has been used up.

There is still a big problem that has yet to be solved: Klaus and his family are unkillable and have no compunction with killing others.

Yeah they shouldn't have done so much but they backed themselves into this corner by way of their handling of the back door pilot.
The back door pilot should've been a one-and-done story, getting Klaus out of Mystic Falls and showing how the new show will work. But instead they basically set up a whole elaborate new…

It was definitely exposition overload and I'm not sure how much better it really could've been done. They basically had twice the load a normal show does, they had to (re)-establish the Originals, their history and relationships and whatnot but then they also had to establish the Marcel/New Orleans plot which is…

Yeah, unfortunately TVD has lost its way. I'm hoping this semi-fresh start they are going with will revitalize it.

See this is exactly what I was getting at, that is an idiotic reason to disregard something.

Unfortunately The CW can't save it even if only because people scoff at everything it puts out regardless of the fact that they are the kings of genre programming that doesn't completely suck.

Pretty much my exact thoughts.

It's not so much that we have to see them but we do have to know them.

This show really needs a badguy, I think they want it to be Rising Tide but they are so cagey about them that they might as well not exist.

Power Rangers in Space.

How can the wound heal if they keep twisting the knife?

I quite enjoyed this, best thing I watched all night even.

I liked this more than last weeks, almost solely because the climax was actually worth a damn. Dream world, Ichabod losing an arm and sand pouring out, just cool stuff. Creature design is still aces as well.
And Orlando Jones has to be evil or in the know or something, he is way too cool with all of this. I mean I like…

Schlub is the new stud.