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I think we're meant to assume the rest of the crew were also teleported to the island, just not in the same area as Hook, Nemo, Liam, Aladdin and Jasmine since they were in the same room together and just get transported to the same area together. How they plan to make repairs to the Nautilus, I do not know.

Yeah, I was about to say: especially if it involves Belle. I don't expect Rumple to die without Belle to cry over him and attempt to make us feel sad.

Making it the third time David woke up to this fact, given that he did so in both Season 4 and Season 5 already.

It was his death scene, calling it now. I can't think of anything else that Robert would go all out on.

C'mon, Isaac was fun! His role in the plot wasn't, but Patrick Fischler gave him a certain sardonic charm. I'm less excited by the fact that he's only being brought in for a plot centered around Henry. They're doing a lot of in-studio last-minute shooting. Interesting.

Yeah, he said once he got it "the crown jewel of Agrabah, freely given..." The total magical control over Agrabah evidently can only be willingly passed on rather than taken, so that's why he needed Jasmine - the current holder - to pass it on to him. It's also why Jasmine needed TLK to restore Agrabah instead of using the ring itself, it was never given back to her so she couldn't use its power.

Rewatched the episode, and the hut doesn't seem to be Ariel's actual home, just where she keeps her collection now that she's on land. So that's at least one plot absurdity solved.

Also, new writers can't help at this point. The plot and characters have been damaged irreversibly.

Basically, after six years Emma is still a vaguely defined character whom the writers have no passion for whatsoever. That's the problem here.

They advertised Aladdin and Jasmine, and CS seperation and angst. Of course there would be a drop.

You don't seem to understand how TLK works. TLK breaks ANY curse in the area, it doesn't have to be exclusively a curse connected to the people kissing. Emma kissing Henry - and later Regina kissing Henry - broke the Dark Curse. Jasmine and Aladdin kissing broke the curse placed on Agrabah. If Emma and Hook shared a TLK in front of Snow and David, it could theoretically break their dual sleeping curse.

Me too. But it just suddenly occurred to me...Ginny said she cried when she read how the sleeping curse on Snowing was broken, and that it "actually had nothing to do with Snow and David"....do you think they'll actually have CS share a TLK, and that's what will break Snowing's curse? Because if they're going to do that, they had better damn well make Emma do something to prove her True Love for Hook after the atrocious way she was written in the recent episode. Something more that just helping Gidiot out with a problem he could have just asked her to help him with nicely.

I wish Adam hadn't tweeted about Patrick Fischler returning, because if he hadn't then Isaac's appearance on the next episode promo would have been a real "holy shit!" moment for me. I enjoyed Isaac in spite of the nonsensical Author concept attached to him, so I look forward to seeing both him and Blackbeard again. I couldn't care less about dumbass Gideon and the Black Fairy.

He didn't need to marry her, that was just a ruse to get his hands on the ring. While I think Jasmine being responsible for Agrabah's disappearance works better for her story, that was so painfully a retcon that they did not have in mind when writing the earlier episodes, and only applied now since they realized they only had one episode to finish this subplot. Honestly, I liked this episode better than most here. Maybe my standards have just gotten so low after how much incredibly crappy episodes we've had in this season. Plus I love Colin, Karen, Faran, Joanna, and Oded, and I liked seeing them work off of each other.

OQ and RB didn't get one either, actually. (RB almost had one, but Rumple was having none of it once he realized it could break his Dark One curse.)

Aladdin's still a total fail of a character, but I might be alone in actually liking Jasmine in this episode. Karen David had much more to work with. I feel that all of her angst over Agrabah was made more understandable when we know that it wasn't just a case of her not being strong enough to defeat Jafar, but that she literally handed the guy the thing that made it disappear. And admit it, her suckerpunch defeat of Jafar was badass.

To be fair, Snowing, RB and OQ are exactly the same. Lying and separations are the only drama these writers are capable of writing for couples. I'm headcanoning that Henry's the only one with any faith in Hook after 6x06, and he was too lazy to carry out his stuff on purpose.

Seriously. The last time she saved the day was when she united and led everyone to save Henry in the Neverland arc. (No, I'm not counting the S3 finale, since she also created that mess in the first place.)

Let as all weep for the wasted potential that was not making Jafar this season's Big Bad. Seriously, Oded was PHENOMENAL in this one. I especially loved how much more noticeably unhinged his genie!Jafar was. It's a logical continuation to his total freak-out at the end of OUATIW.

Robert's double as imp Rumple was in a cave backdrop, so I guess this is where they either change into EF form or out of it. But again, Rumple was seen in EF form, and we also know he was with the Black Fairy in Storybrooke. It's all so very confusing.

The good news: the finale won't be another Emma/Regina adventure, since Regina is confirmed to be EF-ized and stuck with David, Snow, Hook, and Zelena alongside Aladdin and Jasmine (and yes, Deniz Akdeniz was finally confirmed to be involved, not just Karen David). The bad news: the finale will be another Henry adventure. *head, meet desk*

It's hilarious that they say "some questions are best left unasked". Is that another way of saying "your questions are pointless"?

A&E "address" Graham's death...sort of.

Interesting tweet concerning OUAT's storage. An emotional Instagram post by Bex Mader.

I would be much more OK with that if it weren't for the REC in play. That just makes it frustrating - I don't want them to fawn over Hook, but to treat him they way they do when he has done so much more good for them than Regina - and not half as much bad - while worshiping at Regina's alter... Exactly. I'm sick of the inconsistency of it all, too. Snow, Charming and Henry need to choose how they feel about him and stick with it. They just keep going up and down, when at least Regina, Rumple, Zelena, Belle and (until recently) Emma have held pretty consistent views of Hook.