Once Upon a Time - "Good Form" - Review

Intro

Second review for today. Still not sure how many I'm gonna be cranking out, but it might be a veritable flood.

SPOILER WARNING

The following review is for Once Upon a Time, Season 3, Episode 5: "Good Form." If you haven't seen it, save yourself with spoilers and go watch it.

Once Upon a Time - "Good Form" - Review

Characters:

• Emma Swan - Played by Jennifer Morrison. Daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White. Birth Mother of Henry Mills. Product of True Love. "The Savior."
• Regina Mills - Played by Lana Parrilla. Mother of Henry Mills. Step-Mother of Snow White. The Evil Queen.
• Prince Charming/David Nolan - Played by Josh Dallas. Father of Emma Swan. Husband of Snow White.
• Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard - Played by Ginnifer Goodwin. Mother of Emma Swan. Wife of Prince Charming. Step-Daughter of Regina Mills.
• Henry Mills - Played by Jared Gilmore. Son of Emma Swan, Baelfire, and Regina Mills. The Truest Believer.
• Captain Killian "Hook" Jones - Played by Colin O'Donoghue. Pirate.
• Neal Cassady/Baelfire - Played by Michael Raymond-James and Dylan Schmid. Son of Rumplestiltskin. Father of Henry Mills.
• Peter Pan - Played by Robbie Kay. Big Bad of Wonderland.
• Felix - Played by Parker Croft. Peter's messenger... or something.
• Captain Liam Jones - Played by Bernard Curry. Hook's older brother. Deceased.

Review:

Hooray! Back story on Hook! I was super excited for this. I should have known it would be a bit lackluster. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but the back story itself wasn't as fun as the earlier/later bits of back story we already have. It was pretty awesome seeing Hook in something other than his black pirate gear. It was also pretty awesome that he was able to temporarily save his brother. The lack luster bits were mainly on Liam's shoulders.

Liam would probably have been more interesting if he'd a) had more of a personality and b) hadn't been so dumb. I did not connect with him at all. I mainly wanted to whack him over the head with something. If there's someone who lives in the place you're visiting or whatever and they tell you that the plant you're looking for is poison, frigging listen to them! Don't dismiss them because they're "younger" and don't poison yourself with the plant to prove a point. Liam clearly failed on both counts and died because of it.

I liked the budding "bromance" between Hook and David. It was fun to see, even if David was being ridiculously judgmental the entire time. Also watching David go through what would have been the last hours of his live was... strange. He seemed to have parts where he was perfectly fine and then parts where his punches went completely wild. I liked that Hook gave David the choice of whether or not to drink the water. It showed that Hook is honorable, even if his methods aren't always the best ever.

I thought the dynamic between Emma, Snow, and Regina was interesting. Emma's essentially the tie-breaker between what has been fed to us as ultimate good and ultimate evil. I think at this point, Regina's plans are more likely to bear fruit than Snow's. Snow comes from a place, mentally speaking, where never doing something that could be perceived as wrong is better than ending up with the results you want. Yeah, Regina is a bit rough around the edges, but her plan made the most sense.

I'm not going to talk about the Emma/Hook kiss. It was there. I have nothing to say about it.

I'm not sure how I feel about Henry at this point. On the one hand, he seems to be falling in line with Pan's plan for him and on the other, he's being really sulky. I wasn't really phased by anything that went on with him, except the bit with the mirror. A) Thinking the mirror thing is Pan's doing is really strange. Pan's mostly been upfront with what he wants from Henry. B) Did Henry really throw the mirror away and break it? It has more chance of being found now and it's broken. This bugged me, a lot.

But yeah, pretty solid episode. I enjoyed the ride.

Miscellaneous Notes:

• Just how big was Pegasus supposed to be?
• What was so important about Hook killing David? Like, why did it have to be Hook?
• Emma and Regina referred to Henry as "our son" FINALLY!

Favorite Lines:

"Listen to my mother?" - Emma

"At least you got to say goodbye. Most people don't get that much." - Hook

"That you were stubborn? Yes, I gathered that rather quickly." - Hook

"She didn't. I did. That's what I'm here for." - Regina

"What I wouldn't give for another sleeping curse." - Regina

"I don't do rum." - Regina

Housekeeping

On to the next review!!!! This one only took 25min to crank out.

Love ya, Jessie