I just watched The Queen of Hearts and The Cricket Game

Some interesting moments, mostly Hook getting knocked out (incidentally, am I crazy to think he resembles Jonas Armstrong?) but I want to say that the Good Always Wins schtick occasionally got trying.  Snow and Charming won, and I'm happy for them.  I like Snow and Charming a lot.  BUT, for the most part, it's patently not true.  I mean, you can't get much more good than Belle, and where is Belle?  Belle is locked up in a tower marking off the days on the wall.  I don't call that winning, and yet she so obviously still loves Rumple and even if he isn't "good" and hasn't earned his happy ending she deserves something a little less sucky than being locked up in a tower.

On the good side, Aurora and Mulan were adorable.  If that's it for them, I guess it's as a good a send off as I could've hoped for.  I'm going off to find me some fic on the subject.  And Belle made Gold a lunch.  In a little basket.  And the bit where Ruby could half understand Pongo was really cool.  And the lunch in the little basket.  And Hook getting knocked out.