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I don't care what a lot of people say, i love Asher. He has a kind of endearing quality to him.

I have high hopes for the last episode. It's pretty much the only hope I have left for this show, even though I'll still be entertained and watching when it ends with Snow hooking up with Whale, Emma going to new york, and Captain Charming running off together to go on adventures with an occasional camp out in the woods with Robin Hood. I honestly find myself chanting (not out loud obviously), "If they can make a fantastic ending for Wonderland, they can do it for Once."

I'm kind of happy, cause they kinda sort of answered two of my questions (which I'm sure plenty of other people asked as well, but it still makes me feel sort of special). I asked about the red queen in 4b, and if there was an upcoming character death (except i didn't ask if it was 'major'). I'm still hoping Sidney bites the dust. GE needs to be freed from Once, unless if it involves flashbacks. I think A&E will try their best to squeeze in Anastasia (red queen), even if it's for a small cameo. Anastasia was my absolute favorite character from Wonderland, and one of my top characters for the entire Once Universe. The Netflix to Hulu+ comment made me chuckle. I'll take it.

May I join in on the Great Halloween Elsa Count?For trick-or-treating i got 4 Elsa's. i also got 1 Snow white, 1 ariel, 1 belle, 2 pirates. Winners of the night were a family dressed with a royal knight theme. The dad was king, the mom was queen, the one riding in the wagon was a knight, and the toddler was an adorable dragon. Had some leftover candy. Lucky for me; I'm kind of a candyholic. There were a lot of older kids that shouldn't be trick or treating ( i don't blame them; i'd be trying to get free candy if it wasn't frowned upon). Half of my trick or treaters didn't even say "trick-or-treat," they just stuck out their bags. They're lucky I'm so nice. Very blustery night though. Perfect for Halloween. It was nice that it stopped snowing.

Maybe he'd go after the Dark One's dagger (as in try to become the dark one)? That'd be a step down from having broken the laws of magic and having unlimited power, but it could still work. But then it's be too similar to Cora (although Jafar always reminded me of Cora, just because He ACTUALLY GOT STUFF DONE instead of standing around and bragging. I kind off miss the days of the idea of people trying to take the dagger like rumple originally did (and i guess zelena too). I realize it's pretty futile when the dagger is in the actual hands of the dark one or a witch, and not some jerky kingdom official, but still... Jafar's pretty smart. It'd be fun to see a nobody/minor character get ahold of the dagger and become corrupted. That'd be interesting.

I asked some legitimate questions, but i didn't use the EW hashtag, so they'll probably never be seen. I also posted them in reply to Adam's retweet of that person's original post, so That probably diminishes any chance of them being answered. Maybe I'll try again using the original post. Never mind, my questions show up. Also, I totally just asked if we would ever see Charming's glorious Fabio hair again. I couldn't help it.

This is why I think JMo gets so much meanness on twitter, same with the character Hook. (I don't know if Colin gets a lot of hate on twitter or not, but I know his character does). Emma's at the center of a lot of the main ships that have been on this show: CS, SF, SQ, the smaller ships, etc. Hook stands in the way of all of them. So there's going to be a lot more meanness thrown in their general direction, which makes me sad. I feel bad for ABC/Once because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they don't include SQ they get yelled at, if they do, they're accused of baiting. they just can't win.

The problem is, Lily looks absolutely nothing like Will or Anastasia, in my opinion. She looks more like she could pass for Alice and Cyrus' daughter if anything. But that doesn't fit with the timeline stuff.And if it's three female villains, then I nominate........ THE JABBERWOCKY!!!!!!! But like I mentioned in the Wonderland board, the show would have to immediately end, because everyone would be reduced to blubbering messes (moreso than they already are). As for male villains: Frollo could work, or at least in my dreams he works as a villain for an epic 2/3-parter that takes place in the EF. I imagined him as his typical evil self selling his soul for the powers of darkness ala Rasputin from Anastasia in order to eradicate the gypsy,etc. in EF Paris. Complete with the awesome Hunchback score by Alan Menken. Facilier could tie in with that new fortune teller/whatever she is character they're bringing in later on. Jafar was awesomely evil, but I don't know what his new goal would be, unless they keep it the same as what it was in Wonderland. But then that'd be kind of repetitive, at least for the 12 people who watched Wonderland. Also: Horned King for Original Dark One. I wish Once would bring in another guy villain. So far we've only had 1 male big bad: Pan. Not technically counting Rumple, because there hasn't been an arc dedicated to defeating him (yet), and Killy never made it past villain-lite for me. He was more like an evil lackey if anything. Mirror shards flipping everyone's personality would be fun. Imagine evil snow mouthing off at Regina. Evil charming's always a hoot. And yeah, Dairy Queen hasn't done much evil yet. But at least she's not rambling and cackling on about how evil she is like Zelena.

Happy to see it adjust up.

The ratings took a big dip because they were competing against Hocus Pocus, obviously. HOCUS FREAKIN' POCUS!!! Joking...Not gonna lie, when Once went to commercials, I flipped it over to abcfamily to watch some of it. Finding the episode kinda "meh," lower ratings sort of fits it, in my opinion. Maybe not this low, but I'm not really surprised that they are lower than the previous eps. Editing this because I missed the fact that Once had a horrible lead in with that Star Wars Rebels show (a repeat that garnered only a 0.6). That show's mainly geared towards younger boys isn't it? Which isn't really who Once aims for? Not blaming it for the plummet though. But it could also be another factor in the lower ratings. Doesn't AFV average around 1.5 or so? So they're a stronger lead-in?

I don't think we're supposed to forget hook is keeping stuff from her, it's more like thy wasn't meant to be the focus of the episode? There's a part of me that feels like this episode should have been switched with The Apprentice...? Obviously some of the details would have to be switched around and stuff, but????? I don't know. Still enjoyed the CS scenes.

Sad about the ratings dip, but I'm not surprised. It was kind of a bland episode. :( hopefully the ratings go up a tick in the finals.

Maybe anna had to go on another mission? maybe she's rescuing Kristoff, whose name she conveniently forgot when she ordered Rumple to never hurt them again.

Looks like Belle finds out about the dagger sooner than later? Cool. So the inevitable disaster that is awaiting Rumple in the later episodes won't include that detail. I'm beginning to think more and more that something happens to belle when rumple's plan backfires. I wonder in what episode everyone will learn about the Rumple-DQ connection.?

I'm also giving Killy a free pass this week, mainly because this week was all about Emma (....and Regina, but that's not the point). I don't think him confessing would fit in well with the how the rest of the episode played out. Also, all the awards go to Sidney for finally standing up to Regina! So far I've liked Will's dynamic with everyone he's interacted with. Him and Snow were fun. Snow was adorable! I thought the snow queen/Sidney/mirror scene was the best of the night. It was the most interesting thing that happened. Regina...was classic Regina. I'll leave it at that. Kind of a blah episode :( .

This made me laugh :) Maybe Anna and Belle will only talk about adventures? Maybe Anna will tell Belle some stories of her own adventures, and this will trigger Belle's thirst for adventure.

Maybe hook goes to tell Emma/whoever, but Rumple's all, "nope, you can't. It's part of the deal; you said you'd do ANYTHING." ??? (Why, Killy, why???) Maybe it's a verbal contractual obligation to keep quiet??? Yep. Ignore me. I'm giving up hope. Keep sticking up for yourself Emma!

Like someone mentioned above, we don't know how much time will pass between episode 4 and 8. So I like to have hope that maybe only a day or 2 will have past? How many days did Hook keep his last secret? An undisclosed amount? Trying to be optimistic, but won't be surprised if A&E screw it up. Also, if Emma can forgive Regina, she can forgive Killy. People are going to make mistakes in relationships, and Killy messed up. So hopefully they can figure things out. Sidney biting the dust looks more and more true (i predicted this could happen); I knew it was a big possibility based on the episode titles. GE will be missed if it is true.

At least it looks like they are trying to minimize the "crash and burn" that'll be coming in 4b though. Seeing how I don't know how to hide spoilers, I'll be as vague as possible: their choice for the 4b villain is probably the smartest move they could make for following frozen, given recent events. Does that make sense? *If this is too spoilery, someone please get rid of it, or please tell me how to hide spoilers!! I hope that the show can stay a few ticks above it's season 3b ratings though. They were low, but they seemed pretty solid all the way through. Also, spring seemed to slaughter almost all the shows last season.

I imagine that they thought they could get more viewers/better ratings in the 7-9 slot. Wouldn't the back half of the episode be competing with the Walking Dead if it went from 8-10?

Excited about the 2-parter. Should be fun.

What caused Neverland to go permanently nighty? Was it the loss of magic, or because of Pan's evilness?

Doesn't Belle know some basic magic skills? Like didn't she use a locator spell to help find Eric? Or did I just completely make that up? Would that even count as possessing magic? Maybe Belle will get sucked into the hat, and Rumple will finally begin to see the error of his ways?

Please let those numbers be true! I've been loving this season.

IMO, the DQ seems to be a mix of Cora and Rumple. A Powerful lady trying to convince Elsa/Emma that people will never accept them because of their magic, much like how Cora was trying to convince Regina. Except the DQ doesn't seem to be causing as much external damage, and looks like she's got mad mind game skills like Rumple.