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Wednesday 4 May 2016

Once Upon A Time 5.20 "Firebird" Review

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As the others gather outside discussing how they can leave, Regina (Lana Parilla) tries to transfer half of Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) heart to Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) but it doesn't work.  Well that transplant was rejected.  Hades (Greg Germann) tells them it was cos David (Josh Dallas) was only dead a few moments, whereas Hook's body is decaying and his soul is no loner in it.  Thought that already, they'd come up with some excuse, especially since they have all that magic and yet still have obstacles in their ways.

Hades turns up with a note saying he needs their help as Gold (Robert Carlyle) has kidnapped Zelena (Rebecca Mader) along with Pan (Robbie A Kay).  Regina wants to help, but Hook says he can't be trusted and as always he was right.  Hades saying if they help he'll erase their names from the stones and Emma agrees to help him but only if he does this.  She didn't ask for a way to help Hook though and obviously Hades' Ambrosia story was full of holes.  When he spoke of Orpheus and Eurydice. He sends Emma and Hook down to the deepest depths where even he hasn't been.  As they accompany each other and Hades says the portal will only be open until sundown. The others decide to help people leave the underworld too, by Henry (Jared Gilmore) writing what their unfinished business is.
Robin's (Sean Maguire) been sent a message to come out of hiding and Regina says he should give Zelena the baby and they should head to the portal cos Regina trusts her, so he should do it for her.

However as they sit there handing out their unfinished business, Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) arrives and says that no one's going anywhere cos she's the new ruler and she has magic cos the blind witch (Emma Caulfield) has magic and together they're going to rule, cos David also dispensed with James who was her fun down here.  She seals them into the library and Regina's magic doesn't work.  Emma gets down below with Hook and she has to place her heart on the weighing scale as Hook tells her to and it doesn't move.  She has a reaction and Hook tells her to go for her heart as he's surrounded by fire, but instead she saves him from the flames.  Thus showing that she does really love him as the scale moves and doors open.  However their search is fruitless as they don't find any ambrosia.  Hook tells her she must return with her family and leave him here.  Oh pointless her coming here then and bringing everyone else too.   Lots of snogging and holding hands and as Hook said before, why does she manage to say lovey dovey things when they're in danger or trouble.  She mentions her armour and how she's been wearing it for so long, but she doesn't need it with Hook.

Interspersed with this we get Emma back being in Maine, 2009 and pursued by a bounty hunter, Cleo Fox (Rya Kihlstedt) when she looks for anyone in a clipping she has.  Cleo tells her she knows and handcuffs her whilst she takes a shower.  Of course Emma knows how to pick locks and she finds the computer which has a tracker site open and doesn't leave.  They head to the courtroom where the miniscule-ly thin file only contains a clipping of a boy finding her as a baby, which she already had and two other pieces of paper.  Later she breaks in and Cleo follows her but doesn't find anything cos the police arrive.  breaks a window to escape and wants Emma to come with her.  She later finds herself bleeding in the alley with a piece of glass stuck in her and Emma tell her she can get help. See Emma got her killed cos she had to pursue things and couldn't leave them alone.  Suppose this was a parallel story for her situation with Hook, as he said to her he should've died in Camelot and this time she's got to leave him here.  He'll probably move on to bigger and better lines!! Ha.

What's the betting he doesn't cos does he really have any unfinished business now, aside from his father, whom we don't get to see in the underworld.  Also Cruella's still around and Henry left the book with peoples' unfinished business tn the library, maybe Hook'll find this or help the others.

Emma finds her daughter and tells her she found her birth mother, then buys a leather jacket cos she called it armour that she can put on to protect herself.  As Emma leaves with the others she says she won't stop helping anyone else.  Gold takes Robin's heart for Pan so he can get out of here and then doublecrosses papa by saying he put his heart back when he wasn't around cos he knew his shadow was there.  Saying goodbye to papa forever as he put some water from the river of Lost Souls into it too.  See did Pan really think he could actually get him to help.

Gold putting Belle in Pandora's box: never to be opened or untold evils will be unleashed, didn't know whether to laugh or not.  Did he really think that her father will bring her back with a kiss, well I know I already said that but just couldn't help it!  He even got Hades to tear up the baby contract but it was funny seeing Pan try to take Zelena's heart and Emma stopping him.  Zelena kissed Hades and kick started his heart!  Big mistake!

Also how everyone for years told Regina she should forgive people and when she finally does forgive her own sister she's berated for it and also when she told her to find the man she loves.  Only man is still as selfish as ever and only wanted to get his sorry ass out of the underworld.  Let's hope Hook finds his ambrosia somehow cos we really don't want him to not be around!  A lot of people will stop watching.  Could even go so far as to say that this episode was all about Emma's jacket in many ways and no it didn't help her that much if at all.  She's still making the same mistakes and also garbling words at the same time!

Regina: "You'd think the ex-pirate with a rum habit would cut my sister some slack."
Hook: "You'd think the Evil Queen would be even smarter than to send the wicked witch to romance the most devious man alive."  Well he was right, even if Zelena had showed a glimmer of a change in character, there's no guarantee Hades would or could ever change and this was proven even before we got to ep's end on two occasions.  Or three if you count getting Zelena's baby too and heading for Storybrooke without waiting for the others.  Stealthy (Geoff Gustafson) was in the underworld too and Henry told him how Grumpy still talks about him.

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