I was okay until they passed Marcie's house and I heard strumming.

I keep begging OUAT in Wonderland to give us Princess Jasmine or Aladdin, just so we can perhaps just have one interesting Middle Eastern-looking person who isn't completely evil. I'm guessing that is the Sultan in the other cage? And the Genie doesn't count, he isn't Middle Eastern or originally from Agrabah.

So is the Red Queen supposed to be the Anastasia? Like from the Disney movie? I'm confused. It's okay when Robert Carlyle plays the croc, Rumple, and Beast, but mostly just because he's awesome. Maybe that just happens to be her name, but that sounds dumb too.

So excited to see Belle next week. That library had better be open by now. So does this mean Rumple has been cheating on her with Pan's shadow this whole season though? I'm pretty sure they kissed at some point. I thought it was just supposed to be a vision he conjured up until Regina could see it too this week.

I couldn't decide if it was horrible on purpose because a mermaid would mess up the moves or what. I probably shouldn't give them that much credit. And seriously maybe Eric is more appealing when he's soaked and drowning? He was certainly nothing special in his scenes here.

Was I the only one bothered that there didn't seem to be any animals in the past? That was just weird. I was hoping for maybe a quick explanation on animal fusion. This just supports my theory that they're lab experiments aliens or something.

Am I the only one who is extremely bothered/confused about the timeline? I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a Victorian or modern setting that Alice's England is set in, it seems like they might have been going back and forth, but it was very unclear to me. Lobotomies have just been invented, the scientists…

I thought so too, did they already forget last week's ship of awfulness?  It had some of the character development that they used to whine about the show lacking.  There doesn't need to be huge progress in every episode, they didn't drag the map thing on for half a season like I was afraid they would, and they fought…

You never pretended root beer was actual beer as a child?  I totally did, especially if it was in the brown bottles..

I've always wondered about that, it irritates me that they've made such an obvious solution to the whole can't touch her problem and never addressed it..  Maybe Jake doesn't want him to know.. with tier 15 and all.

Captain Sunshine is coming back!  I cheered a little too loudly at the preview.  As great as this week's episode was, next one looks even better.  Brock dressing up like a villain at an evil nightclub for villains?  yes.