Episode 9: Changelings
Emilie de Ravin as Belle and Keegan Connor Tracy as The Blue Fairy
So the Black Fairy is really Rumple’s mother. This family tree gets more complicated all the time especially when you think that Regina is both Henry’s mother and step great-grandmother.
Basically it seems that Rumple has had a dark origins this whole time and is the reason he hates fairies. Not sure how to feel about this twist especially with the better twist that Aladdin became a Genie! That’s a good twist. I hate how little the show is doing with the Aladdin plot unless it goes into Emma’s death vison plot or Rumple and Belle. I’ll admit Rumple and Belle’s dynamic this episode was interesting but they have been having variations of the same conversation since the start now they just have a baby thrown into the vocabulary.
The scene with Belle giving her son to Blue was emotionally charged but the episode was just alright. Good in parts and dragged in others.
Episode 10: Wish You Were Here
Jennifer Morrison as Emma
Are you kidding me with this episode? Another alt-timeline? Really show? I have to ask even though it’s a wish, how does Emma and Neal get together to even have Henry and why is he still called Henry? That name was because of Regina! It might be a fake wish reality BUT STILL SHOW! And somehow in this world Rumple could get a bean with ease when in reality he got Regina to cast the dark curse so he could get to his son. On a context level this episode hurts. Plus Robin is back now in the wish world.
In other plots, when Aladdin became the Genie, Jasmine didn’t make her wish to return to Agrabah. For some reason they waited and EQ got the lamp prompting the whole wish world. In other, other plots Belle and Rumple’s son got taken by the Black Fairy and turns out to be the hooded figure who is destined to kill Emma, so that’s how they worked Rumple and Belle’s plot to have more importance. And EQ is now a Snake and at two masters later, Jasmine has the lamp and made her wish. Still wish Aladdin and Jasmine weren’t side-plot fodder.
Did not care for this episode, sure it’s another twist that Baby Gideon is one who kills Emma but the wish-world shenanigans literally hurt my head with all the mental leaps it asks of the viewers.
Also this show has a pattern of having a character telling other characters to meet they at place in one hour. Is that ever enough time?