Once Upon a Fangirl...: Forget Me Not

Instead of repeating myself saying 'this episode follows directly after' whatever episode since this is the same for all the episodes in this season, I'll just go straight into the synopsis! Alice & the Knave go on a search for a forget me knot, which has the power for someone to see what happened in the very same spot in the past. However, in order to get it, they have to go to the Caterpillar, where they make a deal with him to reveal the location of it in exchange for bringing it to him otherwise the Knave would have his head chopped off. They discover it at the Grendel's house, were he kidnaps them & plans on cooking them, only to discover that he actually uses the forget me knot to look at himself in the past with his deceased wife, revealing that he stole it after her death & in exchange was horribly disfigured. After a Bandersnatch summoned by the Red Queen & Jafar attacks them, Alice manages to use her skills taught from Cyrus to defeat it & in gratitude, the Grendel lets them take the forget me knot. However, once they get to the place where the bottle was buried, they discover that the White Rabbit betrayed them & Will decides to burn the knot afterwards. And then the Grendel is killed by Jafar for no reason whatsoever after they trick him into thinking they can bring his wife back from the dead. Meanwhile, in the characters' past, we see the Knave in the Enchanted Forest when he was known as Will Scarlett, secretly double crossing Robin Hood & his Merry Men to steal a magical mirror along with gold in order to escape with his love Anastasia (who went on the be known as the Red Queen) to Wonderland.
Honestly, this episode actually surprised me! While the other 2 episodes have been pretty mediocre, this one wasn't all that bad. It was interesting to see Will's backstory with Robin Hood along with a glimpse of his relationship with Anastasia. I also loved the addition of Maleficent as she hadn't been seen or mentioned since season 2 & it felt rather nice to see Kristen van Bauer Straten reprise the role, even if it was just a voiceover! I also quite liked the Wonderland scenes, even if the visual effects are still pretty bad &. I even enjoyed the Grendel with his sad backstory with his wife dying & the story behind his disfigurement & it made it that much sadder when Jafar killed him as, well, all he wanted was his love back. Alice & Will were also enjoyable to watch & I also liked seeing more of the Caterpillar & his rather eccentric personality. I did have a few issues though, like the fact the Red Queen being Anastasia was pretty predictable, Robin Hood didn't get much screen time as I thought he would & I felt that they tried to cram in a bit too much into the episode. However, overall, I actually enjoyed this episode & that's actually saying a lot!