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X is for eXcellent aim, which Snow has with her bow.

I suspect this is going on at the same time as the brawl or right before, since Anna and Kristoff are there at the post-brawl reunion.

Lots of pics of the Elsa/Anna & Kristoff reunion.

I often forget which spoiler goes with which ep. This is a good roundup, though I notice it doesn't reference the seeming Emma/Henry/Hook scene that JMo tweeted a pic of.

R is for Red/Ruby, who was their bestest friend but now doesn't exist.

I'm sticking with my vow not to read any more Lana interviews. Ah, yes, such comedy to see everybody in town attacking one another! Hardy har har.

If it is Regina, I think I might just give up on the show then and there. That would be so gag-worthy and nothing but Evil Regal and SQ pandering. They do love having Regina swoop in and save the day, though. Ugh. Just ugh.

Why do so many characters on this show make out with people they shouldn't be making out with right in the open on Annalise's porch?

Followup tweet from Sean: "I didn't mean to worry any1.I just can't reveal anything about my story on once.@AdamHorowitzLA & Eddie work hard to keep the plots secret."

Sean Maguire just tweeted that he's just flown from LA to London on the way to Malta to film "The Cove." Not sure what "The Cove" is or how long it's going to take him, but it seems like Robin won't be in the ep they're filming right now.

Are you sure it was a dream and not just a memory? ;)

What if Rumple gets hoist by his own petard and get sucked into the hat and sent to the Land Without Magic, which is why Robert was filming a NY scene? That would be deliciously karmic. I can't see them leaving Rumple without magic for long, though, so I'm sure something would happen to restore it to him. I also have a vague wondering if DQ ended up in the Land Without Magic via the hat; maybe the disappearing door that EM filmed with is the exit from the hat. That could be how she lost possession of the hat. Has anyone noticed if she has a star on her wrist, LOL? I don't know how she would have kept her magic, unless the theory of the hat sucking out people's magic is actually wrong. Or maybe they do get sent to the Land Without Magic, but some strongly and inherently magical people are able to keep their magic.

Ah, so I'm clearly not the only one who has horrible ideas of things this show might do! (And I've had this exact one, too.)

Situations like the OQ morning after are exactly why I've started DVRing the show instead of watching live. I watched live the first four eps, but I knew I would need FF ability for 4x05. I'm not watching Once without that ability again.

And being a damn good captain!

Yep. I've seen archives of the overnight numbers, but not L+7. Ideally, I'd like to see both together.

That's brilliant and is about the only scenario that seems to make sense of this mess. The show won't do it, because it's too clever.

Is there someplace that lists the L+3 and L+7 numbers for each ep?

YES! The dialogue in this ep was generally atrocious, so much so that it was actively jarring to me. Everything was clunky and stilted, more so than I can remember in any previous ep. (I'm not saying this show's dialogue is generally great and sparkling, but it does have its moments, and this ep it was noticeably bad.)

I'm not using spoiler tags, because this is the spoilers thread so no need for those. Basically, long story short, Hook would be the child of Davy Jones and Calypso, and DJ somehow created the honeymoon house for Hook, based on a bunch of clues from items in the house. I'm fully on-board with Davy Jones being Hook's father, and I know it's long been bandied about in the fandom. I think Davy being a fugitive from his servitude to the sea, but then being retaken (by Calypso? Poseidon? Ursula?) during the brief voyage with wee Killian, would fit what we know already. Maybe he didn't abandon Killian; maybe he was simply pulled back into the sea. The Calypso idea is cool, but I'd be perfectly fine with Ma Jones being just a normal human woman. I really like the house tie-in in this particular theory.

I'm putting this here because it contains a spoiler picture. Awesome theory about Killian's parentage. I love it beyond measure. Because it's so awesome, it won't happen.

Emma must still have her magic, because DQ wouldn't let her be in the Magical Blonde Club otherwise.

Georgina posted a photo of her, Colin & Sean watching the ep.

Because the writers have told the audience that they're soul-mates, and why can't poor Regina just be happy? Plus fairy dust! It's contrived and plastic as hell, IMO, but a large portion of viewers will accept whatever they're told to accept. You know what P.T. Barnum said.

I'm currently typing via telekinesis from an alcohol coma. Seriously, I never want to hear that word again. It's beyond ridiculous at this point. My general reaction to this ep: Eh, whatever. I'm pretty much emotionally divorced from the show now, thanks to the offensiveness of 4x05. I fast-forwarded through every Regina scene. I can't even deal with her and the OQ melodrama anymore. I did think the fairybacks (Aren-backs?) came off as cheap and cheesy, and the dialogue was cringe-inducingly bad and stilted -- especially the first one with the kids. It was almost cable-access bad. I hate what they did with Snow being scared of Emma. I blame the writers more than Snow, because they needed Emma to feel isolated, so Snow got to hold the Plot-Device Ball (this comes in a play set with the Idiot Ball and the Contrivance Stick). I think DQ is lying to Rumple about what he needs for the hat. She told him to do something (probably to do with Hook) that she knew he wanted to do anyway, but in the end helps her more than it does him.