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Plus, how big was that panther anyway? Would 100 (ok, 97) people actually get enough or just something to sink their into into and actually make their hunger worse? What about their ability to digest meat? I'm sensing a really bad case of Montezuma's Revenge in the future for the kids...

So, a Jeckyll and Hyde episode. Nice twist. The retcon of Neal's "no choice" continues. I hope this episode marks the end of that. I've seen Talahasee, I have eyes. And "I had no choice, you know that" is not what happened. When Hook hugged Neal and said he sometimes forgets that Neal was Bae, I nodded - yes, Hook, it's hard to remember. Also, the scene was so well acted it hurt. We could have got so much more out of these two actors, if they had better material! I never liked Neal, so the episode didn't get to emotional for me. It was a good sendoff (minus the retcon, naturally). Poor Emma. All men just die in her arms. (I'm a bad bad person, but I chuckled a bit when Emma said, AGAIN, that Neal's dead. He had the habit of doing that... A lot.) I appreciate the irony, though: Rumple lost everything to get his son back, but in the end he also lost his son because of his bad choices. In the end, Neal was just a plot device, which is terribly sad.

I would say a quadrangle or a pentagram ;) Let's see: Wells likes Clarke, Clarke used to like Wells, Finn likes Clarke, Clarke starts to like Finn, Raven likes Finn, Finn used to date Raven, Olivia likes anyone with a certain bodypart... Whew. I'd say the Ark may have some special way of getting its inhabitants down to Earth safely, but perhaps it's their last resort. And they cannot waste it on each and every culprit. The've beta-tested the drop on the 100, and now the're waiting impatiently for the results. I just hope they won't atempt to take the whole station down, because those components were certainly not made to enter the atmosphere. Even in 2200 the physics works the same, I guess. Oh, anyone else thinking about the possibility of food poisoning after the panther dinner? ;)

Am I the only one who is not yet charmed by the Robin/Regina True Predestined Love and find it contrived? I feel as if i 've been reading a crime story and someone just spoiled the ending for me. Not in a good way. I mean they look great together and the actors have good chemistry, but... I don't know. It seems like I SHOULD like them and ship them, and I'm still not over Maid Marian. Maybe if we didn't know beforehand that Robin is supposed to be Regina's True Love and the romance anvils were not dropping all over the place? On the other hand, I'm an avid Captain Swan shipper and this pairing does not feel forced to me. i don't know what's wrong with me ;)

Yes, that was in the book. I must have missed that in the show - that should teach me not to do ironing while watching! The re-evaluation was also in the book, but I got the idea it was just a pro-forma statement, as the air is to precious to waste if a person does not contribute to the society... Either way, Clarke was pretty scared when the soldiers came for her and she was sure she's going to be airlocked even with the re-evaluation. Some "crimes" (and I still have the impression that some=all) can get you only killed.

I liked it better than the pilot. Awkward CGI aside (the panther was strangely mutated, I guess), the plot moved a bit and we got some nice scenes on the Ark. Princess Clarke can be annoying, but I kind of like her - still don't know why. I usually hate such girls on tv. Wells tried to be usefull (and failed partially). It's kind of sad how Clarke ignores him - something terrible must have happened between them before her confinement. I wonder if they'll go with the book explanation. Belamy keeps being a big jerk and his sister Octavia is the go-to annoying girl of the series. For someone kept under the floor for so many years, she's really... open to people? Open in the not so sensible way. So, Finn's got a girlfriend up there and she's a mechanic. he also has a penchant for giving his love-interests weirdly cute metal origami. I was wondering: the idea behind keeping the underage offendes in confinement was that the state was against executing children. So once they grew up to become legaly adults, they were airlocked. First: it's awfully cruel (knowing exactly how many days you have left). And secondly, Raven can now consider herself one lucky girl - if the 100 were not sent down to Earth, her boyfriend would have a few months of life (which transcribes to 3-4 visits from her). Anyhow, I'm all in for some Lord of the Flies atmosphere. I used to like The Tribe very much.

I believe the whole True Love thing is that is can be romantic, but can also be - I don't know how to put it - family oriented? So: Henry is Emma's True Love (as proven by the kiss). But that doesn't mean Emma's heart is now closed (as much as she would like it to be) and she cannot find a romantic True Love. Henry is her Motherly True Love. (And yes, I think Hook would be great as her Romantic True Love). But on this show you can simply be in love with someone without it being the majestic, magical True Love. For instance: is Aurora and Philips's incomming child a True Love Child? It should be, the father woke the mother from a Sleeping Curse. Is Robin Hood's Roland a True Love Child? (Probably not, as the show trueated Maid Marion as a backdrop decoration). Is the second offspring of Snow and Charming also a True Love Child? Once again, it should be. But the whole True Love Child business is sketchy.

The plan was confusing to say the least. I guess they wanted to steal the bottles (Cyrus was supposed to get close to those), but why was Alice saving the Sultan? I don't know - to plead to Jafar's black heart perhaps? Amara sudden out-of-the-staff-ness was... sudden. It's like "Oh, I forgot, I actually CAN free myself. i couldn't when you were keeping my son in a cage, but look now!". maybe the writers just wanted to wrap things up quickly and skipped a Free Amara Quest from the script. On the whole, I really really heart Will. Can the original show have him? If Ana cannot be brought back, let him interact with Ruby. They can chat about how they both got shows that were canceled.