So I was a bit late in watching the episode this week as I was super busy but I still managed to avoid spoilers! The only thing I saw was the word sand which was so vague that I didn't think much of it (of course, I know now that there was much more to it.) This episode was a strange one as this season seems to be going but it was definitely another interesting one.
Firstly can I just say that the casting department are seriously amazing. Young Arthur and Guinevere were legit doubles of their adult selves and super cute.
Talking of Arthur... An Arthur centric. Obviously I'm not a big fan of his after the last couple of episodes but this episode really made me dislike him even more. I get that he wants to fix his kingdom and be a great King, but his obsession with finding the dagger went too far. Guinevere was even sick of him!
I quite like Guinevere actually which I didn't think I would but obviously the way she is now is due to the sand (I'll get back to that later). I thought her and Lancelot were really cute together and him saying he will always love her was so cute. I'm a shipper at heart so that was a nice shippy moment for me!
A couple of things I don't quite understand. The vault of the Dark One appears to be in Camelot now? Or at least very close. Has it moved since we last saw it? It does look like a different location. Also, I don't understand why before it had to be opened with a key and caused someone to trade a life for a life (I'm still upset over Neal okay) but now they just use a code to open it? Is there an explanation for that? Is it because they were awakening the Dark One before and now the Dark One is already awake so it doesn't affect them? I'm going to assume that's the case since it probably won't be explained. And one last thing that I didn't quite get. A door portal in the vault of the Dark One? Seriously? I mean I know it was only to a tiny location but it seems strange to me that Rumple would not think of finding someone who could create a door portal to a Land Without Magic if he knew that they existed. But hopping between worlds seems rather too easy these days considering poor Rumple had to wait a few hundred years to get Regina to cast the curse.
Some things I did like (because I do feel like I am being a tad negative here); mentioning things from previous seasons. The gauntlet coming back and how Rumple got that in his possession was nice to see. Also the fact that Snow recognised the place they went to hide the dagger as the same place she had her nightmare about Emma was pretty cool as well. Snow in general was great this episode. It was weirdly nice to see Snowing having a row for once (yay, they're a normal couple!) and then making up and being a badass team. David was being annoying at first but I'm glad he came to his senses.
But talking about Snowing, that brings me nicely to the whole magic sand situation (I know it has an actual name but I like to refer to it as magic sand to make life easier). So Guinevere stayed with Arthur because he used it on her (this seasons creeper award goes to...) and Lancelot's face when she kissed Arthur just broke my heart (I do have to wonder how you break the effects of this sand). The kingdom of Camelot was repaired because of it. Snowing were under the influence in Camelot because of Guinevere. Does that mean they're still under the influence now they're in Storybrooke? Or does the memory loss cancel it out? Lots of questions there! They were being super creepy immediately after the sand was used on them though.
And lastly the ending of the episode. I'm not sure about Emma using Rumple to be 'brave' (haha very funny. Totally not corny there guys.) Surely just using Merida would work, no? Why does it have to be Rumple? And is Rumple in her head telling her this cause that's super meta if he is.
I'm sure I probably missed a few things (like Emma being overprotective of Henry having a crush even as the Dark One! Those Swan Believer feels hitting me hard) but I enjoyed this episode more than I thought I would for it being an Arthur centric. I look forward to some answers about the sand and seeing what else happened in Camelot.
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