Emma needs to fit in, so she dons a dress and corset, and promptly messes up the first moment that Snow White and Prince Charming meet. Their first sighting is of the Evil Queen Regina, in her menacing red and black leather splendor. The duo are sucked into the time portal, and come out in the Enchanted Forest on the day that Emma’s parents are supposed to meet. The doors swing open and Emma is sucked into the portal despite Hook’s help. Hook attempts to pull the ultra gung-ho Emma away from the dangerous glowy area, but to no avail. Emma: “Home is the place that when you leave, you just miss it.” She says that she never missed Storybrooke, apparently. She and Hook were chatting about how she doesn’t see herself as part of the fairy tale world, so she doesn’t really feel at home in Storybrooke and wants to return to New York. Regardless, though, her portal is open and no one should go near it.Įmma goes near it. A wave of Rumpel’s finger, and his murder of Zelena is not to be found, and off the tape.
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But hey, this is 2014 - so there’s security cameras in the jail, albeit taped on Beta. They rush - they being the core group of Regina, Rumpel, Belle, Charming - to check on Zelena, and see that she has escaped.
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While at Granny’s, after Emma has run off trying to avoid talking about leaving Storybrooke, they notice that Zelena’s time portal from last episode is open. Rumpel wants Belle to keep it as a symbol of trust and love, and commence with the kissy face. Like the vault that he has with no doors the one for only the most dangerous and unstable magic. Rumpel also prepares to go to Granny’s for the naming ceremony, but first puts away the dagger that controls him as Belle walks in with the fake dagger, hoping Rumpel can put it away someplace safe. Regina mentions Tinker Bell’s premonition of love and the lion tattoo, and commence with the kissy face. A bit of wine, a romantic dinner, both talking about how they horribly lost the loves of their lives - that sort of thing. Robin and Queen Regina will join the party later, but they have a moment to themselves first. Continuing on, Charming and Snow decide to have a naming ceremony for the new baby at Granny’s diner. Like the Bailee Madison/Ginnifer Goodwin kid-to-adult casting, it’s so good that it’s almost creepy. It will all be relevant later, but forget the intro stuff - what kind of magic does the casting department on “Once Upon a Time” have? The actress who plays young Emma Swan is strikingly similar to Jennifer Morrison. We start off in the past, with something retold - Snow and Charming’s first meeting - then something we knew but maybe hadn’t seen - lil Emma Swan watching another kid leave the orphanage instead of her - and Robin Hood losing his Maid Marion. It’s a double-episodic season finale (“Snow Drifts” and “There’s No Place Like Home”) with time travel, the Captain Hook-Emma Swan adventure that many have been waiting for, another casting coupe, love lost (again) and the introduction of, at least financially, the most popular princess ever in the final seconds of the doggone episode! So much goodness, so little time.
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Let it go, “Once Upon a Time” - in a good way.