Regina and Zelena

This is sort of AU as it takes place in Storybrooke despite the new curse and what not).

Roland stretched his arm out as far as he could, yet the boy still couldn't seem to reach the haut, retour au début branch on the tree. In fact he barely reached the middle of the tree. Regina looked up from her place on the sofa, taking one plus sip of her coco she a dit to Robin "Why don't toi give Roland a hand?"

To which Robin stood up and walked over to Roland. He lifted the boy off the ground. "Alright Roland, put it wherever toi want." Roland smiled and placed the last ornament on the tallest branch.

"Got it dad." He...

Did anyone else see the parallels between the compass in "Tallahassee" and the magic haricot, fève in "...And Straight On 'Til Morning"?

Both the haricot, fève and the compass are necessary tools to travel between the worlds and are a symbol of hope. Both items take a lot of hassle to procure - climbing the beanstalk and fighting the giant for the compass and growing and fighting Tamara and Greg for the bean.

In "Tallahassee" Emma has the compass and refuses to let Hook hold it before deciding to not to risk trusting him and chaining him up. She couldn't risk trusting him because she had to get back to Henry....

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, toi find someone who can completely turn your world around. toi tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything toi say and actually want to hear more.

You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you.

When something wonderful happens, toi can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with toi when toi are hurting ou laugh with toi when toi make...

The Tallahassee Flashbacks

I believe that the writers were trying to create a tragic romance in Neal and Emma's backstory, a scenario where she would realistically believe that he'd used her but in truth it'd been a sacrifice. However, it didn't fully work, not for me anyway. My main problem with their relationship in the Tallahassee flashbacks is the fact that Neal didn't need to betray Emma to the police. It's implied that the shock of being arrested and imprisoned was required to frighten Emma out of her current criminal lifestyle, but surely Neal could have simply told her that he wanted...