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* AuthorsSavingThrow: This episode shows that Zelena was previously a good child, reminding us that her father was abusive and actually beat her for daring to use magic at all. What's more is that she and Regina start off happy to become friends, only to have Cora royally screw them both over. This has the effect of making her a far more tragic character, and thus making her redemption feel more earned.
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* TheWoobie: Good lord, Zelena becomes a huge one. First her mother and sister conspire to MindRape her to forget the one person she loves. Then it's also revealed that Cora used her for her magic years ago as a child and, when her and Regina discovered they were sisters and were ecstatic to be together, Cora erased the memories and separated them. She finally gets to meet her mother and get some closure, but then Cora has to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
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* TheWoobie: Good lord, Zelena becomes a huge one. First her mother and sister conspire to MindRape her to forget the one person she loves. Then it's also revealed that Cora used her for her magic years ago as a child and, when her she and Regina discovered they were sisters and were ecstatic to be together, Cora erased the memories and separated them. She finally gets to meet her mother and get some closure, but then Cora has to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
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* DeletedScene: One included on the Season 5 DVD. Henry is sad because he couldn't use his quill to undo what Emma did to Cruella, but Emma tells him she can live with it and not to compromise his soul.
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dress that she previously wore in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', with different embroidery.
* RealitySubtext: The young Regina names her doll Isabella and says she can be her sister. The young Zelena is played by actress Isabella Blake-Thomas. And Ava Acres, who plays the young Regina, has an older sister called Isabella.
* ThrowItIn: Adam Horowitz spontaneously suggested Cora's tearful line to Zelena - "we never got to say hello" - to the episode's writing team.
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Rebecca Mader had been known for EvilIsHammy and falling extremely short whenever Zelena had to display sincere emotion. Come this episode and her heartfelt, subtle performance - and she won over many of her detractors.
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dress that she previously wore in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', with different embroidery.
* RealitySubtext: The young Regina names her doll Isabella and says she can be her sister. The young Zelena is played by actress Isabella Blake-Thomas. And Ava Acres, who plays the young Regina, has an older sister called Isabella.
* ThrowItIn: Adam Horowitz spontaneously suggested Cora's tearful line to Zelena - "we never got to say hello" - to the episode's writing team.
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Rebecca Mader had been known for EvilIsHammy and falling extremely short whenever Zelena had to display sincere emotion. Come this episode and her heartfelt, subtle performance - and she won over many of her detractors.
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* DeletedScene: One included on the Season 5 DVD. Henry is sad because he couldn't use his quill to undo what Emma did to Cruella, but Emma tells him she can live with it and not to compromise his soul.
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dressAuthorsSavingThrow: This episode shows that she Zelena was previously wore in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', with different embroidery.
* RealitySubtext: The younga good child, reminding us that her father was abusive and actually beat her for daring to use magic at all. What's more is that she and Regina names start off happy to become friends, only to have Cora royally screw them both over. This has the effect of making her doll Isabella a far more tragic character, and says thus making her redemption feel more earned.
* BrokenBase: Cora of all villains finally gets redeemed. One half of the base was annoyed with this, feeling she'd crossed the MoralEventHorizon far too many times or was too EasilyForgiven. Others however feel that Cora always did have aspects that hinted towards a redemption that felt earned - and shecan be is essentially dead and has been punished for her sister. The young Zelena is played by actress Isabella Blake-Thomas. And Ava Acres, who plays the young Regina, has an older sister called Isabella.
past crimes many times over this season.
*ThrowItIn: Adam Horowitz spontaneously suggested RealismInducedHorror: Regina gets horribly hurt when she finds Cora's tearful line wand and plays with it. The parallels between leaving a loaded gun or something similarly dangerous lying around for a child to Zelena - "we never got to say hello" - to the episode's writing team.
find are not exactly subtle, but it's effective.
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Rebecca Mader had been known for EvilIsHammy and falling extremely short whenever Zelena had to display sincere emotion. Come this episode and her heartfelt, subtle performance - and she won over many of herdetractors.detractors.
* WinBackTheCrowd: Critics strongly praised this as an example of the show returning to solid character-driven stories, after the KudzuPlot that was the Camelot arc.
* TheWoobie: Good lord, Zelena becomes a huge one. First her mother and sister conspire to MindRape her to forget the one person she loves. Then it's also revealed that Cora used her for her magic years ago as a child and, when her and Regina discovered they were sisters and were ecstatic to be together, Cora erased the memories and separated them. She finally gets to meet her mother and get some closure, but then Cora has to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
--> "I've waited my whole life to have a mother and now she's gone."
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dress
* RealitySubtext: The young
* BrokenBase: Cora of all villains finally gets redeemed. One half of the base was annoyed with this, feeling she'd crossed the MoralEventHorizon far too many times or was too EasilyForgiven. Others however feel that Cora always did have aspects that hinted towards a redemption that felt earned - and she
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* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Rebecca Mader had been known for EvilIsHammy and falling extremely short whenever Zelena had to display sincere emotion. Come this episode and her heartfelt, subtle performance - and she won over many of her
* WinBackTheCrowd: Critics strongly praised this as an example of the show returning to solid character-driven stories, after the KudzuPlot that was the Camelot arc.
* TheWoobie: Good lord, Zelena becomes a huge one. First her mother and sister conspire to MindRape her to forget the one person she loves. Then it's also revealed that Cora used her for her magic years ago as a child and, when her and Regina discovered they were sisters and were ecstatic to be together, Cora erased the memories and separated them. She finally gets to meet her mother and get some closure, but then Cora has to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
--> "I've waited my whole life to have a mother and now she's gone."
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* DeletedScene: One included on the Season 5 DVD. Henry is sad because he couldn't use his quill to undo what Emma did to Cruella, but Emma tells him she can live with it and not to compromise his soul.
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dress that she previously wore in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', with different embroidery.
* RealitySubtext: The young Regina names her doll Isabella and says she can be her sister. The young Zelena is played by actress Isabella Blake-Thomas. And Ava Acres, who plays the young Regina, has an older sister called Isabella.
* ThrowItIn: Adam Horowitz spontaneously suggested Cora's tearful line to Zelena - "we never got to say hello" - to the episode's writing team.
* DyeingForYourArt: Isabella Blake-Thomas had to dye her hair red to match Rebecca Mader.
* PropRecycling: Cora in her last two flashbacks wears a dress that she previously wore in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', with different embroidery.
* RealitySubtext: The young Regina names her doll Isabella and says she can be her sister. The young Zelena is played by actress Isabella Blake-Thomas. And Ava Acres, who plays the young Regina, has an older sister called Isabella.
* ThrowItIn: Adam Horowitz spontaneously suggested Cora's tearful line to Zelena - "we never got to say hello" - to the episode's writing team.
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* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Rebecca Mader had been known for EvilIsHammy and falling extremely short whenever Zelena had to display sincere emotion. Come this episode and her heartfelt, subtle performance - and she won over many of her detractors.
