ThisOnce Upon a Timereview contains spoilers.

I know that I did.

The writing of this reveal was delicious.

I want to care about them so deeply.

Maybe it will be in crisis and conflict that their romantic bond is really forged.

Time and tide will tell.

Hour two was a totally satisfactory stand-alone episode.

I wishOUAThad the opportunity to do more of the 42-minute fairy tale epic.

It makes sense that they should they have such a natural gift for moralizing.

All of this said, it was a strange decision to air these two episodes back-to-back.

Ideally, the central season-long storyline should be interwoven with a story-of-the-week.

That it wasnt was only made all the more sense when two episodes were presented back to back.

Best Moment With Emmas Red Leather Jacket:

Not featured.

That was cool because Rubys costumes and wigs were on point.

Best Death and/or Maiming:

Holy Lou but the stabbing of Fergus was graphic.

I was there for it.

Also Merida is terrible at what she does.

Episode 8: 2 out of 5

Episode 9: 3 out of 5

Rating:

2.5 out of 5