I liked a lot of this episode, but Ursula's ending was way too pat, and I'm incredibly annoyed that despite Ariel's return, Hook's lies about her still haven't been exposed. *grumbles*
As usual - more Regina/Snow, please. I'm liking the whole Regina, Rumple et al. storyline a lot, though. And I liked August in this, too!
Last season, remember when Zelena disguised herself as Ariel, and eventually ended up cursing Hook's lips? That episode.
From what I remember, basically, Hook refused to help real-Ariel find Eric during the missing year, going so far as to kill the only person who knew who Eric was. He did eventually confess that to fake-Ariel in Storybrooke, but of course she turned out to be Zelena. But after fake-Ariel had vanished, he explained her disappearance by claiming he'd helped her find Eric. And everyone believed it because a magic mirror showed that Ariel and Eric were together now - real-Ariel found him after all. Oh, and Emma was very impressed with what Hook supposedly did, too. *sighs*
I can see why they didn't want to revisit that whole mess and explain all of that when Ariel's role in the new episode wasn't even that big. But I'm just really annoyed anyway.
I don't think he said he'd helped Ariel. I thought Emma believed he had and he said the credit was Ariel's--but he was lying about how Ariel hadn't been there at all, so Emma thought he was being modest. He chose not to explain the Zelena plot. Which I didn't like either. I guess his hiding what he'd done to Ariel was supposed to be ameliorated by his eventual confession and willingness to try atonement--then everyone would've known--even without that actually having consequences except for the Zelena plot, which Emma did get mad aboiut
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Well, no, he doesn't explicitly say so - you're right, he says it was Ariel, and just lets her believe he was helping, even though during his interactions with the actual, real Ariel, he was the opposite of helpful.
I really wish the whole thing had come out when they discovered Zelena had cursed Hook's lips, but it didn't, and now Ariel has come back and it still hasn't come up again, so I suppose we might as well forget about it.
(Honestly, it's not that it happened, it's that exposing it would have been a great opportunity for some character building, but they totally wasted that. *grumbles*)
A similar thing happened when he hid his threatening Will and getting tricked into the Hat plot
Ohm good point! Yeah, I'm not fond about that either.
Another comparison is to how Emma never finds out Regina enslaved Sidney
I'd forgotten about the whole Sidney thing - I really was hoping that would go differently, too. *sighs*
I agree about the character-building. It's baffling how things like these don't lead to that. I wish it had been the real Ariel but failing that, yes it should have come out when the Zelena thing did. Then the timeskip makes me feel as if we're meant to be satisfied with the possibility of offscreen resolution for the 4a stuff. And I don't understand why Regina wouldn't have released Sidney when she decided not to regress. :/
As usual - more Regina/Snow, please. I'm liking the whole Regina, Rumple et al. storyline a lot, though. And I liked August in this, too!
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Remind me again about Hook's lies re: Ariel, I have clean forgotten them?
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From what I remember, basically, Hook refused to help real-Ariel find Eric during the missing year, going so far as to kill the only person who knew who Eric was. He did eventually confess that to fake-Ariel in Storybrooke, but of course she turned out to be Zelena. But after fake-Ariel had vanished, he explained her disappearance by claiming he'd helped her find Eric. And everyone believed it because a magic mirror showed that Ariel and Eric were together now - real-Ariel found him after all. Oh, and Emma was very impressed with what Hook supposedly did, too. *sighs*
I can see why they didn't want to revisit that whole mess and explain all of that when Ariel's role in the new episode wasn't even that big. But I'm just really annoyed anyway.
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Well, no, he doesn't explicitly say so - you're right, he says it was Ariel, and just lets her believe he was helping, even though during his interactions with the actual, real Ariel, he was the opposite of helpful.
I really wish the whole thing had come out when they discovered Zelena had cursed Hook's lips, but it didn't, and now Ariel has come back and it still hasn't come up again, so I suppose we might as well forget about it.
(Honestly, it's not that it happened, it's that exposing it would have been a great opportunity for some character building, but they totally wasted that. *grumbles*)
A similar thing happened when he hid his threatening Will and getting tricked into the Hat plot
Ohm good point! Yeah, I'm not fond about that either.
Another comparison is to how Emma never finds out Regina enslaved Sidney
I'd forgotten about the whole Sidney thing - I really was hoping that would go differently, too. *sighs*
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