Once Upon a Time season 6 episode 5 soars into a whole new world of evil.
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Unlike the characters you might have grown up with, they are hardly two-dimensional.
This is not someone who intrepidly swoops into every life-threatening situation like a fairytale hero.
Anyone with the nerve to trick an entire kingdom into believing hes dead has issues.
Jasmine isnt exactly the daring princess Disney makes her out to be, either.
However, she also reveals herself to be extremely sheltered under all that gold jewelry and embellished silk.
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And Jafar?
Jafar is just evil.
Though he gets extra points for having an oracle-bird with glowing red eyes.
By now we know that the teachers aide who passed herself off as Shireen is the princess herself.
What started out as the investigation of a possible killer magically turns into a missing persons case.
Aladdin has been MIA since the fall of Agrabah.
Graveyards and ghosts aside, Emmas visions refuse to fade.
Imagine having a migraine and a nightmare at once in broad daylight.
To assume its the Evil Queen is just too easy.
To assume that Emma is inevitably going to meet her end as a savior is also too easy.
This episode casts a powerful spell of suspense.
I also want to see more of Jafars mystically creepy bird.