#OUaTrevisit: S5:E17/18

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As I’ve noted, I’m kind of over the Underworld arc; but I did think this week’s pair of episodes were unusually good. We’re really starting to see some interesting character development and backstories.

As I’ve also noted, I stopped watching OUaT before the final season during the original run. I don’t remember exactly when I gave up; it might have been before the end of season five or early in season six. However, I’m absolutely sure I have never seen season five, episode 18 (discussed below) — I would have remembered.

This gave me joy.

S5:E17 Her Handsome Hero

“Belle’s decision may cost her Rumplestiltskin.”
Airdate: April 10, 2016

• Okay, first of all, WHAT? That slug doesn’t make any sense.
• I had forgotten how little Gaston actually appeared in the early seasons.
• Lord LeGume, really? Sounds pretty salty.
• I covet Gaston’s jacket.

I could be Gaston the Elder at the next MNSSHP.

• “So, you have accepted the truth.”

Belle has accepted that Rumple is always going to be the Dark One, but she can’t live with him?

• Oh right, because Merlin had such great ideas.
• Was that an ogre? I’ve got an ogre-slaying knife, it’s plus-nine against ogres!

Can I have a Mountain Dew?

• Is that an Oz-tornado?
• So MM didn’t just get whisked away by something?
• I really like how Regina is now casually using Emma’s name with no snark or sharpness at all.
• Pretty sure the centuries-old pirate who’s seen it all would know runes when he saw them.
• Did they try speaking “friend“?

• I’m fascinated by this take on Hades as just another powerful magic-user. Not a deity; just someone who, with the right set of skills and knowledge, can be defeated.
• Ah, the cemetery scene was a premonition.
• A flower grows in the Underworld.
• I assume Gaston has six or seven dogs?

Six or seven dogs sounds like the right number.

• I hope we see LeFou in a future episode.
• It’s a trap! Probably.
• I like the way Emilie de Ravin pronounced the word “nefarious”.
• Yes, Belle, ONCE AGAIN.
• Back in the Sad Cafe with Emma Caulfield.

“Can’t you see there’s a fly in my soup?” “No!”

• Do you think Hades, the powerful magic user who rules this land, won’t find someone in the forest?
• Rumple has a point.
• A record of every magical item in the kingdom, interesting.
• No, “A Woman of Substance” is a different book.
• “I’ll watch over the ogre” meaning kill it, probably.
• I think the animal shelter set has been used as the back of Granny’s.
• Yay, another Regina dig at Killian.

• “I don’t have any issues” says the ex-Dark Savior.
• Shot him in the back. Classy.
• There’s the Gaston I know!
• Ah, that’s a lie. Gaston wants to kill the ogre, so he allowed it to escape.
• “Belle, you can trust me.” — someone who has never told the truth, ever.
• Here we come, we’re fifty strong, and fifty people of ambiguous origins can’t be wrong.
• A flash of red in Gaston’s eyes in the mirror. Obviously.

Don’t I deserve the best?

• The ogre kinda looks like one of the blue Avatar people.
• Ohh nice job Belle, getting the dagger!
• Oops. 🌊
• Ugh, Gaston is such a… whatever.
• Now, why would you hand it back to him?
• If you aren’t going to order anything, you can’t just sit here and use the wifi.

But the Internet at my Sad Cottage sucks!

• Red!! 🐺

S5:E18 Ruby Slippers

“Ruby enlists the heroes to find Dorothy.”
Airdate: April 17, 2016

• I’m always happy to see Meghan Ory in the credits.
• She’s sniffing in the wrong place!

Bad dates.

• A strip of gingham. Now, who wore that… 🌪️
• Ruby was still hanging out with Mulan. I’d love to see a spinoff of their adventures.

Via Meghan Ory’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGAnXmsMNpj/

• Talking about seeing “The Wizard of Oz” in Storybrooke. This brings me back to a point from very early in the Revisit about what happens if you know your life is from fiction.
• Also, refresh my memory, I don’t think Mulan was ever in Storybrooke, was she? She stayed with Aurora and Philip and then (we discovered later) went to train Merida.
• Toto!
• Episode directed by Eriq la Salle, known for a lot of things including Darryl Jenks in “Coming to America”.

Hey.

• What did Zelena do to Ruby?
• Whatever Hades suggests is automatically a bad idea.
• Zelena wanted Dorothy’s silver slippers so she could get back to Storybrooke. After Regina sent her away in a tornado. The timeline here is a little mangled.
• “Chisel Chin Junior” is another classic Cruella-ism. I suppose the end of the Underworld arc will also be the last we see of Victoria Smurfit unless Henry actually does author Cruella back to life.
• The whiskey bottle is labeled “Moloch” and I really want that bottle.

Me too, Zelena, me too.

• Poppies will put her to sleep!
• Dorothy is seriously grumpy.
• This exposition is brought to you by the looks between Ruby and Dorothy.

• Killian’s hair looks weird, right?
• Do the slippers work for more than one person at a time?
• Oh right, happy endings, haven’t heard that plot point in a while.
• Are you going to do something at least adjacent to the right thing, Zelena?
• Those meaningful looks again. I think I know who’s going to give Dorothy her TLK.

Is it just me? It’s not just me, right?

• “No dogs allowed.”
• I… was not expecting that fate for dear sweet Auntie Em.

Just kidding!

• You’re kind of wearing it on your sleeve, there, Ruby.
• “Love’s a funny thing, when I met Charming, I hit him in the face.”
• Ooh, I want Hades’ bar cart. I can’t find a picture of it.
• Mulan took care of someone else under a sleeping curse. Had to have hurt.
• ❤️😭❤️😭❤️

This Grinch’s heart grew three sizes that day.

• Did ABC ever publish the Book?
• Belle puts herself under the sleeping curse. And Rumple says he can’t wake her. That’s kind of sad.