"Once Upon a Time" Recap: "Labor of Love"

Written by Shae

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This last episode thankfully didn't have me in tears. It did leave me wondering some things though, especially when it comes to back story and convenient plot holes. It was all confusing with how they chose to introduce the character of the episode. I say that because it seems the goal for the second half of this season is to free a soul from the underworld every chance we get, all while getting one step closer to finding Hook.

Turns out Hercules was the one to train Snow to shoot a bow. Kind of calling shenanigans on that, but weirder things have happened. Still, how did a Greek Demi God of legend end up in the enchanted forest? More importantly, how did Megura end up there too? Herc was off to fight Cerberus, but wouldn't the Enchanted Forest Kingdom know of a giant three headed dog lurking around? Either way, I should probably stop questioning things like that.

The bonus to this episode was seeing Snow finally become her old self and literally shed her StoryBrooke name. It was refreshing to know that Snow White was finally standing up with Regina and Emma, more importantly, not being so docile. I like this version of Snow better. The episode had its ups and downs on the feels level. Henry runs into Cruella and she pretty much convinces him to help get her back to the real world. In doing so that would kind of mean Emma didn't murder her. Except I don't think that can be undone even by the Author.

Hades though, talk about a raging bag of dicks. Guys I thought Lucifer in Supernatural was bad? I was so wrong. Hades is straight up torturing Hook because he can. There's little motive as to why the two are at such odds. It seems the God of the underworld isn't pleased that Emma and her gang of good are out to free souls....which, yeah from his perspective does suck. But still! He's beating Hook up for the fun of it. It's not like Emma knows Hook's being punished for every soul freed. That would actually make more sense. Well, guess we'll see what happens on Sunday.

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