<p>For the past half-season of <em>Once Upon a Time</em>, it&#8217;s become clear that Regina&#8217;s been appointed the center point of the series for all the right reasons. She&#8217;s smart, she&#8217;s capable, and moreover, she&#8217;s the most interesting she&#8217;s ever been by far. Of all the people in Storybrooke, it&#8217;s Regina whose had to make the hardest decision and walking the tightrope between good and evil&#8217;s arguably the most interesting of them thus far. But as <em>Enter The Dragon</em> tells us, a girl&#8217;s gotta have fun sometimes.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05021324/OUAT-S4-Enter-The-Dragon-Regina-Maleficent-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-79193 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05021324/OUAT-S4-Enter-The-Dragon-Regina-Maleficent-BagoGames.jpg" alt="OUAT S4 'Enter The Dragon' Regina &; Maleficent BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>For <em>Once Upon a Time</em>, &#8220;fun&#8221; is a rather limited word to exploit as far as a troop magic users can muster. It was deathly amusing to watch Regina&#8217;s girls night out with her mutually evil Queens (or whoever Cruella de Ville qualifies as) and as the premise of an undercover assignment, a doubly effective one. While I can&#8217;t say a burned out car and playing chicken on the train tracks is particularly imaginative for a troop of magic users, the female cast members seem to really be enjoying themselves and it&#8217;s hard not to appreciate the fun of Maleficent&#8217;s slinky Dick Tracy trench coat.</p>
<p>Lana Parrilla&#8217;s a joy to watch – as a hero and or a villainess and here, she alternate between the two awesomely. As far as Regina&#8217;s come in a few seasons time, it&#8217;s easy to say she&#8217;s become as integral to the show as much as Rumplestiltskin, and that&#8217;s more evident here than ever. Her flashback with Rumple this week was really nothing special, but it must take skill bouncing back and forth between timelines, as well as de-aging Regina for these flashbacks every half-season.</p>
<p>Among our fab four, Maleficent&#8217;s probably taken center stage so far, and while I&#8217;m interested to see what they do with Cruella and Ursula, they&#8217;ve done admirably balancing the show&#8217;s primary &#8220;theme&#8221; cast. Kristin Bauer van Straten&#8217;s dug her nails into the role splendidly, and while I didn&#8217;t know that I needed to see her mope around so much this episode, it&#8217;s refreshing to know there&#8217;s a way to telling stories about these guest characters and not completely push Storybrooke aside.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05021311/OUAT-S4-Enter-The-Dragon-Grannys-Caf%C3%A9-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-79196 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05021311/OUAT-S4-Enter-The-Dragon-Grannys-Caf%C3%A9-BagoGames.jpg" alt="OUAT S4 'Enter The Dragon' Granny's Café BagoGames" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>While the flashbacks to the Enchanted Forest sometimes come across as a square peg trying to fit in a circle-shaped hole, this one fed into the current plot nicely. If Maleficent&#8217;s the (dragon) muscle of the group, then Regina&#8217;s clearly de-facto leader, or just plain motivational speaker. I guess girls in black need to stick together, but as a team within the larger &#8220;Team Evil,&#8221; Regina and Maleficent mesh more than Elsa and the Snow Queen.</p>
<p>As far as Rumple&#8217;s been concerned, he&#8217;s probably the embodiment of cold feet. In the time that the show&#8217;s put Robert Carlyle&#8217;s on hiatus, it&#8217;s a wonder what Rumple can really do after being so much of a one-man show this entire series. Belle hates him, everyone else&#8217;s afraid of him, and I&#8217;m still disappointed on what they hadn&#8217;t done with him and his grandson. It seems like the series is content with Regina as being the redeemed character and I&#8217;m almost afraid Rumple&#8217;s all too comfortable being the straight-up villain. Nevertheless, he&#8217;s surprised when I&#8217;ve least expected it before, and I hope that his surprise &#8220;scene&#8221; with Belle this episode disproved a whole lot about any lack of agency he might have this season.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s this lingering story-arc of &#8220;The Author&#8221; that&#8217;s proven most illusive and so far, we haven&#8217;t gotten anymore clues about it beyond Henry staring at his storybook uncomfortably close close-up. We know our villains want their happy endings rewritten, and at the expense of reducing it to a glorified Wikipedia page, I&#8217;d rather they get it over with one way or another. Given the episode&#8217;s finale, it seems like the show makers are well aware of that and the surprise reappearance of a formerly wooden boy/man should please more than a few fans.</p>
<p>While I wonder what Emma&#8217;s going to do with more than her fair share of scruffy, leather-clad ex-boyfriends, I&#8217;m even more intrigued on just how far Regina&#8217;s going to go with Rumple and company. The series just took a very interesting direction and a show-changer&#8217;s been long overdue. Don&#8217;t blow it, <em>Once Upon a Time</em>.</p>
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<p><em>Once Upon a Time</em> airs Sunday nights at 8/7 Central on ABC. Catch all the latest episodes at <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time">ABC.com</a> and all the latest reviews here at <a href="https://bagogames.com">BagoGames</a>.</p>

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