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Saturday 3 March 2018

Once Upon A Time 7.11 "Secret Garden" Review

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Once returned for its final 12 ep run and here Regina (Lana Parilla) and Zelena (Rebecca Mader) find out how to save Lucy (Alison Fernando) and bring her back.  Regina telling Henry (Andrew J West) she knows he's a believer and Zelena knowing it's hard for Reggie to know who he is and not be able to tell him.  Zelena tells her about mother Gothal (Emma Booth) and how she will help Lucy if they give her the resurrection amulet, which they don't know the whereabouts of.  As Dr Sage (Nisreen Slim) asks for blood donors and checking compatibility, Henry also volunteers on the off chance he might be able to help, especially after glancing at the Once Upon A Time book on the bed! Hopefully acting on Reggie's words of wisdom about believing.  As Zelena  and Reggie set out to find the amulet, Zelena thinks it will be "Wicked and Evil working together", Reggie corrects her by adding, "as sisters!"

Storybrooke Years Ago

Where they celebrate the birth of Henry and Ella's (Dania Ramiriz) baby and Zelena comes to rave at Reggie for making Robin (Tiera Skovbye) independent and telling her it's okay to experiment with magic by giving her the book, after breaking up the witche's coven, well no, they're only Robin's friends, but she's angry since she's the parent and has to teach her what she wants, not the lax aunt with no rules.  She tells her Gothel's taken Robin and Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) is livid when he hears that, not being able to find his own daughter either.  He wants to go with Zelena to exact his revenge on her, but Zelena would rather go alone than take Nook with her!  Yeah her new name for him!  He knows where the secret witch's lair is and even a pirate's map isn't obvious on directions, but he manages to find the invisible lair.  Where Gothel plans with Madame Leota (Suzy Joachim).  Robin wants to stay here and magically places the door back so they can leave.  Zelena refuses as she finds out that Robin is going to be sacrificed in the witch's pentagramic circle and Zelena says to take her instead.  However Robin fires an arrow and threatens Gothel with it.  As they leave Robin wonders why she even thought of magic when she's better with a bow and arrow and her father was Robin Hood after all.

Back at Hyperion heights Zelena doesn't like what Reggie's done with the bar since it was meant to be a dive and she's cleaned it up.  In the backroom, Zelena finds the sign and breaks it to Reggie's shock.  It contains the amulet.  Victoria (Gabrielle Anwar) manages to get out of the well using her trusty Louboutin's to aim at the pulley at the top of the well.  After having more words with Ivy (Adelaide Kane).  Of course Victoria would turn up as soon as they found the amulet and takes it from them.  She wants to be the one to get Lucy back and then people will think more of her.  As Reggie managed to change.  But she wasn't evil in that sense.  Forgetting that the amulet and magic requires a sacrifice. 

Victoria wants Ivy to work with her but only to save Anastasia and Ivy mentions how she always has to be involved.  However she doesn't manage to get back Anastasia as Gothel uses her magic to fill the amulet.  Using Ivy as a sacrifice to bring Lucy out of her coma, that it requires the sacrifice of a human life for another.  Victoria takes Ivy's place and Gothel kills her, as Lucy wakes, wondering what they're all staring at.  Ivy and Victoria manage to make up and especially after Ivy tells her that she was the one who thought of the lanterns to guide her home and not Anastasia (Yael Yurman).  That they love each other after all and all Victoria wanted was to reunite them as a family.  Obviously, since Anastasia is too naive and trusting.  Hook and Rumples (Robert Carlyle) arrive but they're too late.  Seems Rapunzel met a gruesome-ish end after all, now who'd have thunk that?  So as one 'baddie' dies, it's all going to focus on Gothel now and her secret coven plans.

Rumples also telling Hook about the cult that Victoria is a part of and how dangerous they are.  That Eloise is the real problem and as Hook went to see her at her apartment, he noticed that Gothel had cereal and a banana set at the table.  As Anastasia hid out in the closet and Gothel stops Hook from checking it out by dropping a cup on the floor.  Heck I mean hate that she knows who he is and he doesn't as he's just led up the garden path even further.  As all Rumples even tells him is that they are evil and especially Eloise.

As the doctor finds out who is really Lucy's father, she is killed by someone wearing black leather gloves.  Another mystery possibly for the remainder of the season.  Apparently someone is killing off witches according to Edward Kitsis. 

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