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On the other hand, if his boss was that big of a dick, I can understand the impulse to murder him. If my own boss ever pulled a stunt like that, there would definitely be hell to pay!

Ah, thank you. That was the missing piece of the puzzle. Of course, that doesn't explain why it took the UnSub another 20 years to take a trip to Greece. He couldn't have just booked another flight at some point between 1994 and 2014?

Speaking of the topic -- er, I mean, the episode, I still haven't been able to get what it was that the UnSub was supposed to have figured out about the aborted trip to Greece 20 years ago (and no, I don't mean the alleged shuttle crash!). Was anyone able to follow what his boss said to him? I missed half of the dialogue in that scene because the actor spoke too softly, too fast, and not clearly enough for me to get it (one of my biggest pet peeves, incidentally!).

One quick question: What's an UnSub?

If I may get back to the episode (this is my first and only time watching the show, so I really couldn't care less about the history of Reid's alleged linguistic prowess, or the lack thereof), I do have a few questions. First, let me see if I understand this. The Serial Killer of the Week decides the Fates favored him because he survived a mountain-climbing incident (despite being unfairly laden with a boatload of survivor's guilt because he was blamed for the incident in the first place), so he's obviously the Chosen One of the Fates, and it was his destiny to live in Greece so he could commune with them. Then he somehow got screwed out of that opportunity 20 years ago (and by the way, I don't buy for a minute that that airport shuttle actually crashed -- even 20 years ago, that sort of incident would have been all over the media, so there's no way he wouldn't have known about it at the time) -- exactly how did he get screwed out of it? I couldn't follow the conversation with his boss at all. So fast forward to 2014. He gets diagnosed with cancer (apparently because he worked in an asbestos factory for 20 years) and is told that he only has a few months to live. So now the Fates have fucked him over again by denying him the opportunity to live out his life in Greece. So as a "Fuck you!" to the Fates, he assigns himself their role and begins killing innocent strangers whom he just happens to see lined up in a coffee shop, simply because they're getting to go about their lives and make plans for the future, which he is now denied the ability to do (the lone exception to his victim list being his boss, who was the one who somehow screwed him over 20 years ago)? Is that it in a nutshell? And then there were a few other gaps that I need to have filled in. How were the cops able to get hold of his medical records online so easily? HIPPAA regulations would have forbidden such easy, immediate access to them. And how was he able to track down his victims and learn their identities and habits so easily? Yeah, I tried this show, and it's not for me. I just wish I could have an easier time making sense of the episode.

On his side of the family, not hers. The fact that his mother bore twins has no bearing on whether Snow would be genetically disposed to do the same.

Actually, She was trying to keep Henry out of harm's way, and Henry was having none of it because she wouldn't answer his direct questions. Because there wasn't really any time to debate the issue, Emma had no choice but to play the parental "because I'm your mother and I said so!" card.

He didn't. He separated from Rumpel just long enough to prepare the note, attach it and the bottle containing Zelena's memory potion to the bird's leg, send the bird on its way to Hook, and then made it back into Rumpel's body just in time to avoid dying.

Bringing back someone's spirit for temporary communication is not the same as restoring the person back to life (i.e., resurrecting him or her). It's the latter that is rendered impossible by the Laws of Magic. Zelena can't take Henry's heart because Regina put a protection spell on it to prevent it from ever being taken again. Besides, Henry isn't a believer at this point because he still doesn't remember his life in Storybrooke, so there's nothing for him to believe in right now.

He was trying to distract Zelena so he could steal the dagger from her and end her control over him. Unfortunately for him, Zelena caught on to what he was trying to do and stopped him before he could take the dagger. So much of The Miller's Daughter and even The Stable Boy makes sense now after watching this episode. Of course Ava recognized Cora in The Miller's Daughter and wouldn't have been able to resist the opportunity to publicly humiliate the common woman who tried to break up her engagement by tricking her fiancé into marrying her and passing off her illegitimate child as his (and by the way, Adam confirmed on Twitter last night that Leopold knew that in marrying Regina, he was marrying the daughter of the woman that he almost married). And I can see why Cora would have felt it necessary to kill Daniel right in front of Regina -- he would have reminded her too much of the gardner who dumped her after tricking her into thinking that he was a prince, and in her mind, allowing Regina to marry Daniel would have caused Regina to make the same mistake that she did when she was that age. And considering the way Ava destroyed Cora's chances of marrying Leopold (not that she wasn't justified in doing so), I can even see why Cora eventually murdered her and made it part of her mission to destroy Snow's integrity at the same time as the ultimate revenge.

No, this was before The Miller's Daughter. Cora hasn't yet learned to spin straw into gold -- in fact, she hasn't even met Rumpel yet. I think what's confusing is that young Ava didn't appear to recognize Cora when we first met her in The Miller's Daughter -- but her going out of her way to publicly humiliate Cora makes sense now, as does Cora's ultimate revenge of murdering Ava and corrupting Snow's heart for thwarting Cora's original plan to marry into royalty.

It was Blackbeard.

So would I. I've kept up with my Latin and my Italian ever since I first started studying them way back in MCMLXXVI. ;) Now I REALLY want to pay a third visit to Rome!

I feel you, although I think you mean the Pantheon, not the Parthenon (the latter is in Athens, not Rome). I've been there twice, in November 2006 and January 2007, and this leg brought back some very fond memories, especially of my first trip (I even had my picture taken with the gladiators just across from the Colosseum). I think I'm going to do a LOT of rewatching of this episode!

That was one reason for the "no talking about the boards on the boards" rule at TWoP. The other reason was that such discussions very quickly tended to lose focus and become less about the show and more about the posters themselves, thus defeating the purpose of a site that was dedicated to discussion television (as the forum FAQs put it, such discussions tended to make the forum "slide into irrelevance"). In terms of this particular site (and based upon my experience with other sites that allow boards-on-boards discussions), encouraging boards-on-boards talk is a sure-fire way to have people violating this site's Prime Directive, which is, "don't be a dick to other posters." That's just my opinion, naturally.

Nope. Regina is the tin man because Zelena is after her heart, as the last episode made clear. That's why she gave it to Robin Hood for safekeeping.

OK, I was wrong. The showrunners clearly are going to go the one place they repeatedly swore they were never going to go to. You know what? Crow really does taste just like chicken!

Emma's magic is also still pretty passive and instinctive in nature because she hasn't yet learned how to control it the way Rumpel, Regina, Cora, and Zelena have. That kind of control only comes with training and experience, which is why Zelena was able to have Rumpel knock Emma on her ass so easily.

If she's not there with him, I hope we'll at least get a plausible explanation as to why she's not there. Even a line that he came to Storybrooke at her request or with her blessing while she stayed behind to govern Wonderland would work for me.

The only problem with that theory is that the showrunners have been quite clear that time travel is the one well that they are never going to. The bit with Jefferson's hat being used to retrieve the poisoned apple doesn't count because neither Jefferson nor Regina ever actually went back in time; the hat only opened a portal through which the apple fell into Jefferson's hand. Besides, I still think that it would run afoul of the Third Law of Magic (that magic cannot change the past). What would be the point of Hook going back in time if the past cannot be interfered with in any way, either by Hook or Zelena? Hook wouldn't be able to change the past, and he can't be said to have gone back to prevent Zelena from changing it because he wouldn't have to -- Zelena can't change the past, either.

I just realized that there is a problem with Will's use of True Love's Kiss. David tried using True Love's Kiss to restore Snow White's love for him and memory of their relationship after she drank a potion that was designed to erase her memory of them -- and the kiss failed precisely because Snow didn't remember that she was in love with David. How, then, was Will able to use True Love's Kiss to reverse Jafar's memory spell on Anastasia? The kiss shouldn't have worked because at that point, Anastasia didn't remember her love for Will any more than Snow remembered her love for David -- from her spell-induced perspective, Jafar, not Will, was and always had been her true love.

And that, kids, is how you do a series finale that not only delivers, but makes the viewers want more, rather than pissing them off to the point that they want nothing to do with any of the showrunners' future creations (How I Met Your Mother, I am looking at you)! And yes, I loved the application of True Love's Kiss. It's nice to know that some things remain constant in both realms! Didn't Alice make a beautiful bride? And how cool that both her world and Wonderland are now linked (don't think for a minute that the White Rabbit wouldn't just show up again to take Alice's stepsister or her and Cyrus' children on their own Wonderland adventures someday)!

In fact, we just might see another spin-off down the road, say, in Transylvania (Dr. Whale's home world!), Oz, Agrabah, or even Tatooine. This particular show was always meant to be a one-and-done.

Of course it is. It is Wonderland, after all.