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Regina had some great lines, I laughed out loud ar the pine cone one, especially at Lana's disgusted delivery. Aside from the mass execution of villages, I think she is even regarding Snow and Charming and most of Storybrook now. But ewwww, peasants, amirite? I also was shaking my head at Henry being all 'Smee, like from Peter Pan?!' next to the guy dressed like a pirate with a hook arm. It's ok that they had Emma being all offended about Hook's lie. I mean, there had to be something separating them until the finale. Too bad it was this dumb. Great episode!

I hated the rape scene and the insistence of the showrunners that it was "only" messed up sex. They are saying that Cersei did not want to have sex because the time was wrong (she was grieving) and especially because they were next to his corpse, that if Jamie had initiated in another place, another time, she would have wanted to. But that is what makes it rape: whatever reason she had for saying no, it should matter that she said no. No reason for saying no to sex should ever be analyzed for validity, that is the mentality of rapists: it's silly to refuze just because...insert whatever reason here.... , you know you want to! The one good thing about all the violence in this episode was that it underlined what people like Jaime, the Hound and Ygritte are really about and that this 'medieval fantasy' is actually a very savage place. I liked the Danny scenes, maybe because she is the one ruler that appears to actually want the best for her people. Lately, the common people are showed to be starving, get raped, murdered and even cooked. I just want her to win and take over all the kingdoms.

I just figured that he was nowhere near Diane and David Lee professionally. It just seemed unfair that LG has all those partners that have worked years for the firm and then they bring a late 20s guy (who left with many clients) and put him in the firm name. That is also true for Alicia, but she was talking, so clearly she was in - I guess the guvernor's name wouldn't hurt. And I did not even considered they would take Will's name out.. to me it would have been Lockhard, Gardner, Florick (& Agos if the writers remember Cary).

Excellent acting by JM in that scene, btw. And everywhere else.

Loved this episode, I'm glad Colin OD got to do some acting. He was also off the charts hot. I'm glad they had him revert to pirate mode during the missing year, I was bored by the 'new and improved' Hook and I was worried the whole episode would be a Waaaalt search for Emma. I still don't understand why can't he just tell the Charmings and Emma about the green lips curse. Can't he just not get into the specifics if he wants to avoid the Ariel or Emma love subjects? Lie about the details, man, not about the whole thing! The way I see it, the chioce is between WW killing Emma's family and WW taking Emma's powers and then being able to do wharever she likes (probably killing Emma's family + Emma). He helps the WW and then what?

Loved the Diane &Alicia scene, but the merger talk is out of the blue. I would love to see two women at the top, but where would that leave Cary? I mean, if Alicia sells him out too, then she is totally untrustworthy imo. Because there is no way that his name would be next to Diane's and Alicia's Same with Peter: great scene, but, even as a major Will fan, I thought that Peter was out of character: when he reffered to "her friend", when he asked if she wanted to sleep around. I hated Peter since day 1, but it was never this easy, it was usually grey, never black/white. He knows about Will and he was feeling threatened by him, and he's smart enough to know not to open that door in that precise moment. A bit of a more subtle manipulation "I am here because I love you" crap would've been better, to suffocate her with "no demands" because "we'll get through" aka "you'll get back to normal" stuff.

God, I so hope he is. This episode made me realise how much I resent Alicia's decision to stick with him and how much I hate the Peter character because of that ( and the way he treated Carrie, the empowered doormat, on another show:-)) Until Will's death, I just thought he was an obstacle that Alicia needed to overcome and I could live with that. But in this episode, it really hit me how much time I've wasted watching him and Alicia instead of Will and Alicia. I have to give it to the writers, though: I think this was exactly what we (through Alicia) were supposed to feel.

As I also said on Twop, I do not trust the writers for this new and improved Hook, because it looks to me like they are merging the worst in both Neal and Hook into one character. I fear they will have him do "romantic" stuff like the ones that turned people off Swanfire. Like "protecting her for her own good" or "leave her in jail because some guy and you decided it's best". Frankly, I am most concerned about him becoming boring now that they've decided that he and Emma are end game, take out the "guyliner and leather aficionado sexy pirate" and replace it with angst.