Also, what happened to Emma's lie-detector test? More and more people are getting away with hoodwinking the heroes when they shouldn't be able to.
Rumple: Oh no! Hades came out and killed my wife and sunk our boat!
Emma: Ummm- no he didn't. You're lying. Also, how to we get back to Underbrooke without a boat?

"If we can be Catholic on Easter Sunday, I guess the status of confession would (according to that doctrine) wipe his soul clean, but karma-wise, it seems like a crock."

That was my first thought- "So, Milah meets and contemplates (later deciding to have) an affair with a man in a tavern moments after having bullied her husband into going to commit murder while her child is at home, dying… that is even more messed up than usual." Mila's fate was still cruel at the end of the ep, and…

I just… still don't buy this twist for Rumple, so hard. It's the second time he's reformed then backslidden, and this time the objective magical forces of the universe governing Excalibur judged him a hero. That's not the kind of place that he should be re-Dark-One-ing from. (Not to mention the absurdity of the…

If they just made a Hades and Cruella spinoff, I would so watch that.

But yeah, I get you. I'm the same way.

Whereas for me, the music in the club scene had me asking 'were they still playing that three years ago?'

"We have a new reason for West/Allen shippers to shake their fists at the TV set."

Agreed on Deiser. That was cold, man. You're an extra in Phoenix squadron, only Hera's gonna shed tears over you… and if she's busy with giant spiders, she just might forget, too.

Jeremiah/Hank's death was a lot more abrupt and less involved than I'd imagined.

Now that I've processed a little more… still 'holy crap'! But among the noteworthy moments…

I think Batman trademarked the technique. :-)

For me, that moment was Cat being thrown off the railing. Holy crap.

Agreed. Unfortunately, this latter part of the season seems to have excelled at illogic…

Well, maybe she just isn't dead yet, so that can still happen in the real world?

The day before, I asked my wife "How much do you want to bet the cost-saving Underworld will look like a decrepit version of Storybrooke, because 'the way you see it is based on your memories' or somesuch?"

Well, you see, she had to drag her son, family, and friends down to the Underworld so she could rescue Hook, who she was forced to kill to prevent her son, family, and friends from being dragged down into the Underworld!

It's a TV truism- Babies are the things they love to build up to and then hate once they have them, because they don't want to take 2 primary characters out of the show and have them responsibly raising their child (and not endangering themselves) for the next 16 seasons. A pregnancy is exciting, a baby is a tv…

Strongly agreed on both points.

Speaking of which, are they EVER going to deal with the Knave's random reappearance and how we got from the end of OUATIW to here? Or is that just another (what ever DID happen to King George???) dropped plotline? ;-)