#OUaTrevisit: S5:E19/20

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With episodes nineteen and twenty of season five done, there are only three more episodes (two weeks of posts) until our Spring hiatus. And wow, do I need the break after the back half of this season. Let’s get to it!

S5:E19 Sisters

“Regina turns to Cora for help with Zelena.”
Airdate: April 24, 2016

• Does Zelena know what Hades did to Cora?
• “I don’t want to set the world on fire…”
• The car looks like “Christine”.

Let’s all go to the drive-in.

• He’s still trying that TLK gambit. And I bet Zelena is still going to see through it.
• Is everyone’s name on a tombstone now? Could be a problem.
• Regina fixing her hair in the magic mirror.
• Have we seen young Regina before?
• The doll kind of looks like Snow.
• What’s in the box?

Could be anything!

• Okay, that’s not good. Enchanted dolls never work out.

Was it “Talky Tina” or “Talking Tina”?

• It’s a step in the right direction (after all).
• This week is extra soapy, even for this show.
• I don’t like his way. 🧟‍♂️
• How did Cora still have her magic?
• That’s a useful skill.
• “Are you a good witch, or…”

It depends, is this the movie or the stage musical?

• Cora is being extra manipulative here. Using her first daughter to help her second.
• Two Brothers, on their way.
• He tased him!
• MM immediately knew the last time James tried to impersonate David. Will Emma use her occasional superpower to spot him?
• Has Regina forgiven Cora now? The alliances shift constantly.
• Ah, Regina is using Cora, and Cora is walking right into it.
• “There was a spring from this very river near our estate, which I used to make you and Zelena forget each other when you were teens.”
• “Why is everything in the woods with you people?!”

I’ll miss Cruella when she’s gone. If she’s ever gone.

• Ugh, unexpected visits from relatives are the worst.
• Mom heard the whole thing.
• “Well, are you?” “Nah.”
• Why don’t I go out of the room to get you some water instead of magicking it up right in front of you?
• (Nelson laugh)
• Young Zelena in this scene looks like Glinda.
• Mom just turning off the sisters’ fireballs.
• That was a very powerful scene with Cora restoring their memories.
• Of course, James and David are wearing the same jacket, so we’ll be confused about which one dies.
• 🌊
• Poor James, poor poor James.
• Nice that Cora gets to Move On, but given her entire history of evil, she’s unlikely to go to the Good Place.

Unless someone loses her file.

• Okay, I love the sisters reconciling.
• The special of the day is dry white toast and tapioca pudding.
• “I hear you’re wicked, well I’m much worse.”

S5:E20 Firebird

“Emma and Hook’s love faces the ultimate test.”
Airdate: May 1, 2016

• Road trip? Moving in together? Shared laundry loads?
• Love Regina and Killian sniping mostly good-naturedly.
• Emma looked up when Hades said her name like she’d been scrolling through her phone.
• Hipster Glasses Emma!

It’s convenient shorthand for “this is a flashback scene.”

• Do we find out now why Emma still has the Beetle she stole?
• Tearing a long strip of paper like that all in one go is difficult.
• Hey, the plan actually worked. Is Hades not bullshitting?
• Wow. Turns out the way Hades gets his happy ending is to accept love and trust. That’s kind of been the whole point of this show.
• Isn’t Killian still technically dead? How are we going to deal with that when it’s time to go home?
• Oh right, the heart split. But it’s too late.
• It happened once, a long time ago.

I saw it at the Orpheus.

• It took Emma all of four seconds to pick the lock on the cuffs.
• TRAKR Interstate Record Finder.
• This quest is very complicated. Emma and Killian need to take the elevator down to the lower levels. There, Emma will take a test to prove she’s worthy of receiving Ambrosia. If she gets it, she feeds it to Killian, which restores his life?
• “Without magic, how am I gonna take out my own… ow.”
• Ah, I think this is the ultimate test promised earlier.
• Disappointing for Rumple that his kiss didn’t wake Belle.
• What’s in the box?

I assume it’s a box of cookies.

• The Baby, who still doesn’t have a name.
• Rumple took Robin’s heart to give to Pan.
• Stealthy!!
• Cruella and the Blind Witch, who still doesn’t have a name. Great outfits.
• “Only the penitent man will pass.”

And the penitent man must have a ticket.

• She had to save herself or save him. And she chose him.
• Good thing the cops didn’t cover the back of the building.
• The ambrosia tree was cut, Regina and friends are stuck in the library, and Hades escapes with Zelena. Yeah, it was all his plan.
• Is this… The End of Hook and Swan?? (Probably not)

Until the season-ending cliff-hanger, I assume.

• That’s a whole lot to spring on someone unexpectedly while they’re at work.
• The jacket!
• These two should be able to break that spell.

I want to see this spin-off show.

• Nice work, Henry.
• Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
• Phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty living space.
• Through the portal, barely in time.