#OUaTrevisit: S6:E7/8

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This week: The showrunners remembered we’re in season six of a long-running ensemble drama, not an anthology of brand-new stories with brand-new randos every week! In other words, apart from a side quest featuring the World’s Worst Thief, we got back to the stuff we care about.

Also: Hmm, first two weeks of November 2016. Most of that time is completely blank in my memory for some reason.

S6:E7 Heartless

“The Evil Queen finally gets her ultimate revenge.”
Airdate: November 6, 2016

• No “previously on”, just Snow and EQ in the woods.
• EQ is extra creepy tonight!
• “What do you think? Something terrible.”
• I feel like Zelena is not totally into Evil Regina.
• Oh, I don’t want to know what DarkRumple and Evil Regina are doing.
• It’s a family “hairloom”, according to Snow’s odd pronunciation.
• Suddenly David has a doggo! Whose name is Wilby! I love Wilby!

Wilby!

• Oh hi, Mom Charming.
• Flap, flap, flap.
• She needs an allied nation, maybe she could go to Arendelle. (I know, too early in the timeline.)
• Snow and Charming are separately heading to the same town, but they haven’t canonically met yet.
• This is now a Wilby fan page. That is all.

Wilby!

• I don’t trust this guy, not at all.
• It’s a medieval murder van. Great.
• Blue Fairy’s dress is just not suitable for, you know, walking. She looks like a parade jellyfish.
• “I’ve looked through all my books, but there’s nothing.” “Well, keep looking.”
• “I came as soon as I could!” Our team is just playing Superheroes now.

Thank god you’re here, jellyfish-dress-lady!

• Magic powerful enough to imprison the EQ, in a small tree! I sure hope it isn’t the one Regina poured the water on earlier.
• The group wince was just perfect.
• I see some green, Zelena.
• “You need to calm down.”

(Seattle, July 22nd)

• Sure, Prince Dumbass, just take a giant slug of what the guy with the murder wagon offers.
• Get him, Wilby!

Wilby!

• The Woodsman is actually supposed to kill Snow, right?
• “It’s a trap door.” Thank you, Captain Obvious.

I could do this costume.

• Is it the best idea to have Emma and Hook pack up all of Regina’s stuff? Or we’ll just hang out here in the vault and tell stories.
• Remember who you are!
• We know he doesn’t break the lock because this isn’t how they meet.
• Flashbacks!
• WOW at EQ’s “Rage against the dying of the light.” Lana is having a blast.
• Ugh, run through with his own axe handle.
• “As you wish.”
• This split scene. Does somebody want to build a snowman?
• Ah, this is when Snow becomes a bandit. And it turns out she and David met once before after all.
• What rabbit Snow and David will pull out of their hats this time?
• The little bit of darkness in the hearts from when Snow killed Cora.
• Okay? I’m not sure what EQ expects to gain from that. It seems more like a Bond villain time-waster. “I won’t kill them because I want them to suffer more!”
• Blah blah, Belle hates Rumple now, snore.
• To the woods!
• Back in the glass coffin. Wonder what the trick is here.
• Oh, only one of them can be awake at a time. Funny.

S6:E8 I’ll Be Your Mirror

“Emma and Regina plan to trap the Evil Queen.”
Airdate: November 13, 2016

• Their last plan worked so well, let’s try again.
• Apparently, this wake/sleep curse is also the plot of Ladyhawke, which somehow I’ve never seen.

Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick.

• Creepy! Watching through the mirror!
• And now, a musical montage.
• But they’re gonna get aggravated really quickly, aren’t they?
• Didn’t Evil Regina kill The Dragon though?
• Stood up for John Hughes movie night twice? Rough.

This explains Evil Regina.

• Oops! Wrong mirror.
• Now we’re in the Land of Mirrors. And every mirror is one-way.
• Dramatic shadow!
• Tricky fake voicemail.
• Hmm, somebody is not going to buy this. But who?
• “He’s the Dark One, he’s always up to something.”
• Are Belle are Zelena really teaming up here?
• The height difference makes for funny scene blocking.

They should have had Belle stand on a box.

• I like snarky Zelena a lot more than whiny Zelena.
• “Never thought I’d see you in a pantsuit, Your Majesty.”
• Of course, Gold happens to have this random mythical hammer in his cabinet.
• Love can be a weakness, but it can also be a battlefield.

No one can tell us we’re wrong.

• Uh, Killian would be dead.
• That’s where Henry would be taking Violet, if she showed, which apparently she isn’t.
• “She’s a commoner” ought to be a red flag, but it wasn’t.
• But telling Henry to stand up straight: what a giveaway!

Bum!

• sEQ has a little bit of a blind spot where Henry is concerned.
• Dragon!
• A back door! Don’t give away our secrets!

Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!

• I’m really not super impressed with the Master Thief.
• Abu! (“Thanks, monkey.”)
• Whatever happened to Moff Sidney, anyway?
• “It’s not like leaving a voicemail, Henry.”
• Not the old creaking oak tree!
• “I’ll never join you!”

Until the next movie!

• Oh right, EQ took Dragon’s heart.
• That’s a pretty fancy dragon.
• So EQ is trying to win over Henry by…killing his moms? Except Regina dying would also kill EQ, so not too smart.
• I love the Regina/Emma alliance.
• Nice job Henry!! And he grabbed the Dragon’s heart, too.
• The lamp! But who is inside? (Is it Sidney? Wasn’t Sidney a genie at one point?)

No wishing for more wishes.

• I had forgotten about Zelena saving Gold in the hospital. And didn’t realize it linked them together.
• Nice of Granny to let Henry use the place.
• Violet took a little too much from The Breakfast Club.

We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.

• Evil Regina’s evening gown: 🔥
• “You know me, I’ll do anything.”
• I don’t like these two together. It’s unpleasant. Which is probably how I’m supposed to feel.