Once Upon A Time Season Finale: A New Author, A New Dark One.
So I really enjoyed the “Once Upon A Time” finale this year. Usually we are left with a cliffhanger as to who the new big bad may be, but not this year. It wasn’t that shocking as it was really teased all season, Emma is the new bad buy.
Henry finally become the hero/savior, as he was whisked into the book to try and change all that Gold and Isaac did by sending everyone into the book/fake Fairytale land and reversing their hero/villain roles. I really liked the totally reversal of Snow and Regina’s roles there. I only wish they could have brought some others from the past back.
Where the heck has Red gone to? I can’t remember!
In saving everyone, Henry predictably became the new author. However he also snapped the author’s pen, feeling it was too much power for anyone to have. What does this mean for the stories though? That was unclear.
In the end there was a nice twist on the reveal of Merlin as the sorcerer, who they now need to find in order to fully beat the darkness/evil. I feel like Merlin was teased before though, and we definitely already had the Lady of the Lake appear. Merlin tethered the darkness to a human, aka The Dark One, as he had not found a way to permanently destroy it. He then went on some mission around the world to find out how to do away with it, but never returned.
In the end the darkness needed a new host, after it was drawn out of Gold’s heart to save his life, and it went for Regina. However Emma wouldn’t allow Regina to lose her happy ending and took the darkness into herself, begging her family to find Merlin and save her. She then disappeared, with her name appearing on the dagger.
Where has she gone to? That’s a big question. Honestly I’m surprised the darkness didn’t seek out Zelena, who is still stuck in the mental hospital basement and still pregnant with Robin’s kid. Something tells me Emma will turn to Zelena next season for help though, and possibly also bring in Lily, which shouldn’t be too hard.
It will be interesting to see if Gold will turn into a coward again. He won’t have any magic at all now, or shouldn’t. Something tells me he’ll not be able to cope and may try and get the Dark One’s magic back.
I was thinking that somehow that when Gold said he needed the Savior to turn dark to get his happy ending that having the writer rewrite his story wasn’t what he meant but he needed her to take in the Dark One. So I think the rewriting was a ploy to get all of the heroes to think that is what he needed her to turn dark for but in reality he knew they would be back, that Belle would try to save him and that they would get the apprentice out of the hat and he would pull the darkness from Gold. Gold is under a protection spell (or whatever the apprentice did), so the darkness had to seek out another host, and knowing that heroes being heroes, he knew Emma would take the darkness. Maybe I am just thinking too much.
Anyways, with the dagger being left at the scene, couldn’t the rest of them take it and hide it or command Emma with it? Granted it was easy for Gold to trick people out of it, but still it seemed risky for the dark one to leave it, so maybe that was the good part of Emma leaving it? I do feel like in the end that Gold is going to have to take back the Dark One.
05.12.2015 at 3:35 pm