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Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

A Wondrous Place- Thank you so much for another amazing reaction, Dodo! I really love this episode a lot!! Especially with Killian's storyline as he fights to get back home to Emma, as it connects to Jasmine's and Aladdin's story in trying to find and free Agrabah. Also... I really also love seeing Ariel again, and she's a great addition to this episode! I especially love all of the scenes with Killian fighting to find a home to Emma. Killian has some great lines in this episode. And I especially love the moment between him and Emma in the end, as Killian is talking to her through Ariel's shell phone, trying to assure Emma that he's fighting to get back home to her. Even though he has no idea that Emma is able to hear him. This shows he has hope that his message will somehow get through to her. So beautiful! And now... Emma finally knows that Killian didn't abandon her, like she and everyone else in Storybrooke are all so quick to believe. I think this is really the only aspect within this episode that I don't like. I really hate how everyone is so quick to judge Killian and to believe that he's just up and left Emma, after everything they've been through together. I can understand Emma's fear of being abandoned by him, because she has been abandoned by a large number of people in her life including her parents and Neal. However, even Emma is too quick to assume Killian just left her, and she's absolutely too quick to pack all of his things away, including his brother's ring he had given her in Camelot to wear to protect her. Surely Emma and at least one person, could have given Killian the benefit of a doubt. He deserves so much better. However, with this all being said... It leads into another of my favorite parts about this episode, when Gideon appears in the end to Emma disguised as Aesop, after he has created a protection spell over Killian with Emma's tears in order to keep him from coming back home to her. It turns out that Gideon has marooned Killian, and has forced him through a portal, in order to force Emma to help him to in his own plans. To kill the Black Fairy. And Emma is angry that Gideon's using Killian as a bargaining chip against her. Oh... is she angry! In answer to who Aesop is... Aesop is known for writing classic fables in a collection of his works called, Aesop's Fables. Fables all about animals. Hence... the reason why this new bar in Storybrooke is called Aesop's Tables, instead of Fables. And this is why all of the drinks Emma lists off from the bar's menu are all titles of his fables such as The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Dog and the Wolf, and The Fox and the Grapes, etc... And this is why Emma talks to him about him writing stories all about animals, instead of him being able to write his own sad story that sounds too simple and plain. As much as Gideon annoys me as he annoys you too, I actually quite love the twist of Aesop turning out to be Gideon all along, because I quite love Killian's and Emma's overall story arc with them fighting to get back to one another again. I just hope that the real Aesop is still alive and well. And then... I also really love the overall story arc with Jasmine and Aladdin throughout this episode as they seek out Agrabah, and how Jasmine finds three heroes to help her defeat Jafar. Not to fight the villain for her, but to give her the strength she's needed in order to be able to face him again, and to save her people and her city. And then... Jasmine wins in a battle of wits against Jafar, and with True Love's Kiss, she frees Agrabah and frees Aladdin from the genie curse. A happy ending for Aladdin and Jasmine! And Jafar is at last defeated upon her turning him into a wooden staff. Regarding Jafar being a genie... It's like I've mentioned before, in my comments for your reaction to this season's episode... Changelings. There are multiple genies from Agrabah, and Sydney was never the only one. Aladdin spoke of another, as a nod to Robin Williams's Genie. And now we learn that Jafar had become a genie at some point too. I know you haven't watched Once Upon a Time in Wonderland yet, but the reason for Jafar being a genie actually comes from him becoming one in the spinoff. I won't give away any more details to avoid spoilers in case you do decide to watch the spinoff one day. However, I felt you should know why he's suddenly a genie, without Once Upon a Time ever showing us how and why he is so. And while the actors playing Jafar in Once Upon a Time and its spinoff are two different actors, this show decided to carry on Jafar's story arc from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, since the spinoff had been cancelled after thirteen episodes. I hope all of this makes sense. Sadly, Killian now has to find another way home. Oh... And we also get to see Nemo and Killian's younger brother, Liam, again, as they say goodbye once more. Next... I enjoy the beginning scene with Emma and David, as Emma tells David that Killian had been the one to kill his father, but then he comforts her upon believing Killian left her too. I still hate that he believes Killian's has just left them like everyone else believes, and I hate that David thinks it's because he now believes Killian a coward for not telling him the truth about having killed his father himself. I also love the scene in the sheriff's station between Emma, David, and Regina, when Regina encourages David to go back to sleep so that Snow can be awake for a girls' night out. And lastly... I really love the moment with Snow, Regina, and Emma at Aesop's Tables, when Snow is drunk as she challenges the Vikings to a game of darts, but with knives instead. Drunk Snow is actually quite cute. :) Thank you again, for another great reaction for another of my favorite episodes this season. In spite of everyone's belief that Killian has just left town like a coward. And I can't wait for more!! Thank you, Dodo! Sincerely, Heidi

Miss Tickle

I think you might've maybe heard of Aesop in German? It would be Äsop I think (he wrote Äsops Fabeln). It took me a bit to get it (it's slightly different in my native language too haha)... Though I'm also not sure how famous he is anyway in other cultures. 🤷🏻‍♀️