An episode that concentrates on Zelena (Rebecca Mader) just to drag the final battle out a little bit longer. Once again showing she's made mistakes in her past but she'll make them again cos there's a kind of arrogance that comes with being wicked and possessing so much powerful magic. Beginning with being better than Regina (Lana Parilla) and more powerful and that their mother should've kept her for this reason. Obviously she was going to come down to earth with a thud. Anyway as a little girl she's seen as an outcast by the rest of Oz and is considered a freak for her magic. One day she's helped by Stanum (Alex Desert) who found a nest with an egg in it. She puts it back finding it was the local bullies who did that. She makes a friend.
However years later when he needs help cos he accidentally knocked down the Wicked Witch of the North's tree and she turned him in tin. He needs the crimson heart which will help him become human again. She doesn't want to help him and as he walks away she agrees, but only to show that she should be feared and her magic is stronger and she fears no one. When they gets there they meet a lion along the way and frightens him thus becoming the cowardly lion. Yeah just as I said where's the lion, out he pops! Ha. Stanum tells her she needs friends and not to be alone but she doesn't listen. When they get to the heart, she finds it's worthless and it's draining her magic away so she lets Stanum become tin and suffer as a tin statue. Taking the heart with her.
In Storybrooke the Black Fairy (Jaime Murray) wants Zelena to help her, but she refuses, again thinking she could destroy her withe her magic but she disappeared. Obviously she's forgotten that the final battle will be with Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and only her. Regina needs eye of newt, she still hasn't stocked up on that, though last time she told Henry (Jared S Gilmore) to get if from Emma's shed. This time she goes to the Pawn shop where she finds Zelena has left Robin and has entered the Dwarf mine on her own. Belle (Emilie de Ravin) being left to look after Robin. Rumples (Robert Carlyle) still hasn't found away to get the Blue Fairy (Keegan Connor Tracy) her magic back as she's older than him and will know things about his mother.
Henry finds his author powers have made him powerless, he can't write anything, the words vanish. He's been working on what he drew in Regina's crypt. Charming (Josh Dallas) tells him he should take a break and come back to it, he can't write anything even if he tries he couldn't change anything. Charming thinks he recognizes part of the symbols for a moment. Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) is busy making wedding plans and interrupts Emma and Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) in their romantic interlude in between making pancakes. She wants her to have the perfect wedding which wouldn't exactly be at Granny's or the Town Hall cos that's so romantic a setting. Charming wants Emma to have one in a palace at least cos she's a princess. Oh enough with the class defined roles already! Ha. They decide, well Emma decides they will have a wedding after the battle cos even if the wedding is about hope, it's best left until then and even if it's not, it will only be shortlived anyway.
Regina finds Zelena and they notice the fairy crystals which are what the Black Fairy has been mining. Being interrupted by her and Gideon (Giles Matthey) she tricks Zelena into using her powers and turning all of the crystals black and thereby becoming part of dark magic. She knew Zelena's powers were unstable and that's why she tricked her. Regina's angry and tells her to go back to Oz cos she has to fix her mess now and tell the Charming's what she's done. Zelena magics a tornado but she doesn't return. She tells then to take her power and make it better with the use of the heart. As the crystals turns back into light they have an idea to wake the Blue Fairy. Said that minutes ago!! Belle tells Rumples that they've lost time with their son but she won't let the Black Fairy make them lose anymore time with him. As Emma uses the crystal on Blue.
As said, a bit of a stretch in getting Zelena to relinquish her powers as it's the right thing to do and to reverse the Black Fairy's magic in feeding off the crystals. Of course she would be listening in on their plan and Gideon just came across as so weak as usual. Even if she does have his heart. He's not so determined anymore as he once was when he first arrived here. Zelena getting to learn that magic isn't everything and to act before thinking has consequences, as does arrogance. Can't believe Gideon could keep Regina down like that and she couldn't use her magic on him. Only know she thought to cover the Blue Fairy with a blanket! As Zelena and Regina landed on those sacks instead of the ground when they were expelled out of the mine. No snow and then suddenly the land's covered with snow! It's magic. Wish we could get some magic snow here! Ha.
The title of course being a line from the song Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. Suppose the bluebird's nest was shown at Oz, the egg that was rescued. Did like Zelena's line about the last one who crossed her is peeling bananas with their feet!
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