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Surprisingly enough, Elsa unleashing her admiral on Storybrooke to assemble a alarming ice bank and about killing Emma wasn't the best jaw-dropping allotment of Once Upon a Time this week. That account absolutely goes to David's old abounding mane, but added on that later.
["516.04"]In agreement of Once mythology, there were two important reveals in the episode: There's not one, but two frigid ladies in boondocks — Queen Elsa and Lost alum Elizabeth Mitchell’s abstruse Snow Queen — and Little Bo Peep isn't as candied as you'd think.
Before we can get to that, though, let's aback up to area the snow aboriginal started to hit the fan.
We aces up with Elsa departure Mr. Gold's shop, announcement to herself that until she finds Anna, "no one will leave this town." Cue the agreeable break in "Let It Go" in your arch as an icy aboideau raises about the absolute boondocks and all of the electricity goes out.
Of course, this causes boundless agitation about town, and Sheriff Emma (am I the abandoned one who forgot she was sheriff?) teams up with David to investigate. Aback they access at the gates of hail, Hook aback ancestor out of the black and says he's there to admonition "distressed fair maiden" Emma. Papa Charming does not approve, cutting Hook a afterlife beam and aback acceptable actual careful of his daughter.
However, David doesn't accumulate too abundant of a alert eye on his fully-grown babe and walks off, abrogation Hook to bear one of his abounding absolute curve in the episode. "I should accept brought the albino to bless our additional date," he says of the wall. "Because we've got the world's bigger ice bucket." Emma, of course, counters by pointing out that they haven't alike had one date, afresh calmly spots Elsa amid the icy spikes afore they can abide the conversation.
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David makes abiding to accomplish the abutting moment awkward, cogent Hook, "I anticipate it's time you and I accept a little allocution about your intentions with my daughter." Hook says in the best way possible, ultimately saying, "I wouldn't accident my activity for addition I see as loot."
Though it's not David and Hook's battle that sets Elsa off, their attendance doesn’t absolutely admonition the bearings at hand. Afterwards Emma tries to allocution to the snow queen, David and Hook affright Elsa, causing her to absolve her powers, atom a mini avalanche, and accidentally allurement Emma in the average of a arctic cave. (It’s bigger if you brainstorm her saying, "Did I do thaaaat?")
From there, Emma gain to about benumb to afterlife while intermittently accepting heart-to-heart conversations with Elsa about their admiral and ancestors drama. This gives Emma a little bit added admonition about Anna, but she's too active crumbling in and out of alertness to activity annihilation that's happening. Additionally of note, the abutting we've gotten to the anyone breaking out into song so far is Elsa adage "It never agitated me" aback Emma addendum that it's cold. Well played, Once Upon a Time.
But tonight wasn't aloof about Elsa. We bound apprentice that Anna and David affiliated long, continued ago. We're talking his pre-royalty days, aback aback he was aloof a average shepherd, active with his mom on their acreage and aggravating to save them from Little Bo Peep. Yes, you apprehend that appropriate — the sweet, fluffy-pink-dress-wearing bogie account appearance from your adolescence is absolutely a warlord in the OUAT universe, accession money from and creating disciplinarian out of innocent people. And if you try to run, she brands you with her herding stick, makes you one of her sheep, and will annihilate you if you cantankerous her.
Back then, things were additionally actual altered for David, who had shoulder-length amber bouncing beard and didn't apperceive how to apply a sword. Oh, how the times accept changed.
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We accommodated Anna afresh aback she comes to Misthaven (aka The Enchanted Forest) to accommodated David. She introduces herself as Joan and is about a abhorrent cheat while aggravating to awning up why she absolutely catholic all the way from Arendelle. But instead of David allowance her with her mission, she ends up allowance him.
She teaches him how to sword-fight so he can go up adjoin Bo Peep and he tells her a adventure about how his ancestor was a bashed and died at the basal of a ravine. Unfortunately, she gets captured by the sheep wrangler afore they can accomplishment their Karate Kid-style training or allotment any added claimed stories. Yet by some miracle, David still ends up acceptable the activity adjoin Bo Peep — complete with some bang bliss that Snow would accept of — and anybody ends up happy.
Well, that is until Anna seeks admonition from David's mother about who could admonition her acquisition out added about magic, and she's led appropriate into Rumplestiltskin's hands. But, of course, we abandoned see Rumple's maniacal bedlam as he stares into a attractive bottle and don't acquisition any answers about Anna tonight.
Because of David and Anna's above connection, he's able to abduct Bo Peep's shepherd’s cheat (from her boner boutique in Storybrooke, naturally) and run to accomplishment Emma and Elsa. "You accept to live," he tells Elsa, which is article Anna allegedly told her often, and that inspires her to use all of her admiral to actualize a big aperture in the bank and acquiesce her and Emma to escape.
And admitting I'd adulation to apply on all the means that Elsa and David are activity to aggregation up to acquisition Anna, I was too absent with the Hook and Emma moments that happened after.
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First, she abandoned hugs Hook afterwards she's adored — not her dad; sorry, Charming — afresh she collapses and he carries her aback to David and Mary Margaret's place.
Oh, and speaking of Mary Margaret, she spent the accomplished adventure ambidextrous with some added acute issues than adopting her bairn baby: dispatch in as mayor. Leroy and Granny about beating bottomward her aperture to appeal her to save the boondocks and accompany aback the electricity in "her kingdom." Admitting she ends up accepting a absolute accident — article that Elsa and Emma could accept apparently used… — and agreeable at them about how she thinks that the boondocks fabricated Regina angry from all of their craziness, she ends up analytic the problem. She abstracts out the architect aloof needs some added fuel, flicks it on, and Storybrooke is abounding with ablaze again.
It's at this point that Hook and Emma were aloof starting to authority easily at the house, but they were disconnected by the accomplished power-coming-back affair and he finds a amplitude boiler for her. I'm abiding he has some added account in apperception to balmy her up, but for now, they aloof bundle by it and I assumption that aloof has to be enough.
Elsewhere at the house, David uses Bo Peep's agents to try to locate Anna with Elsa. While they can't acquisition any location, they apprehend a heartbeat, signaling that Anna is alive. But afore they can commence on their adventure to acquisition her, Elsa tries to booty bottomward her big ice wall. Of course, it fails, abundant to her surprise. "I'm the abandoned one with this power, I should be able to disengage it," she tells Emma afore the camera pans to a altered blonde: Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, who runs a bounded ice chrism boutique in Storybrooke. The catch? She can additionally accomplish ice chrism with the bash of her hand, and an absolute bank freezes over aback she leans up adjoin it. There's no agnosticism that she’s the Snow Queen, but who is she really? Elsa's absolute mother? A new villain? Both? There's a lot to activity about her, but I'm abiding we're in for a albino showdown with her and Elsa actual soon.
Oh, and P.S., if you were acquisitive for some Regina activity in tonight's episode, sorry. She's in a absolute of about a minute, aloof to hug Henry afterwards she approved to shut him out of her life. His abstraction of allowance her was to actualize a bassinet of wine and amber — "I googled how to get over a breakup. It didn't allocution about your boyfriend's wife time-traveling aback from the past, but abutting enough" — and she beatific him a babble to acquaint him to leave her alone. Obviously that didn't end up sticking, and they had a blessed alliance at the end of the episode.
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What did you anticipate of Anna's backstory with David? And added importantly, what did you anticipate of his hair? Acquaint us below!
Alyse Whitney is an ball biographer whose activity revolves about her DVR conflicts and all things Shonda Rhimes. Her assignment has appeared on MTV, POPSUGAR, TVLine, Wetpaint and more. Follow her on Twitter @AlyseWhitney.
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