Once Upon A Time in Wonderland closes its season/series with episode 13 entitled “And They Lived…” and while our heroes prepare to fight their final battle, Jafar is more powerful than ever.

Right in the beginning of the episode we found out what Jafar actually wanted to achieve with this spell. Apparently his plan wasn’t just to force his father to love him, what Jafar actually wanted was to let his father know what was like to be murdered by someone you love. So, in what was a bit of a twist, Jafar killed his father in cold blood.

In an episode in which laws of magic didn’t apply, rules were broken several times, far from just the example I mentioned above. Because it couldn’t happen in any other way, both Cyrus and Anastasia were brought back to life, but the latest was resurrected by Jafar, and because he never does anything from the kindness in his heart (because he doesn’t have it), he decided to torment Will by making this Knave watch himself and the former Queen, “in love”. Jafar even promised Alice that he would change the past and make sure that she would never meet Cyrus, but Alice wasn’t very worried about this, because she knew something Jafar didn’t, which brings us to the next topic of conversation.

Like Snow and Charming from the original show usually say (or even sing sometimes), Love is the most powerful magic of all and love can break any curse, and in this episode that was a clear message. This is why Alice wasn’t worried about whatever Jafar might do to her, because she was sure that what he did would either not work, or be reversed eventually. But Alice and Cyrus’ love wasn’t the only one featured in this episode, and as hope speeches and virtues of blind faith come, I did love what Will said to a cursed Anastasia. I loved it so much that I am going to have to remind you guys of it: “[Love] is messy. It means arguing and making up and laughing and… and crying and struggling. And sometimes, it doesn’t seem worth it. But it is. And, at the end, when you’re in love, no matter what happens, you forgive each other. I forgive you, Ana, for what you did to me. Because I love”. And because true love’s kiss can break any curse, this speech was followed by one that woke Anastasia up from Jafar’s spell. Even though this episode had many sweet moments, this speech followed by the kiss was definitely my favorite one.

Even though villains on Once Upon A Time are usually very well developed, making the audience love them and feel sorry for them even when they plot to kill everyone, it is always nice to watch a villain being defeated and this time it was Jafar’s turn and the most satisfying part about it was that he was the one who caused it. When Cyrus was about to return the stolen water to the Well of Wonders, Jafar caught and destroyed it. When asked what she was going to do then, Alice replied with one of those badass answers; answers which, even though sometimes are a bit cliché, I always love: “I plan to do nothing”, she said, “Because you didn’t steal that water from me. You stole it from her”. It is really these kinds of lines that make me love these moments when villains are defeated. Plus, it is always very satisfying to watch because usually they deserve what they get. The Nyx appeared and Jafar was turned into a genie.

Another very satisfying thing after seeing a villain defeated is watching our heroes be happy, even if sometimes it is for just for a few moments. The Rabbit married Alice and Cyrus and everyone was there. Yes, even Edwin. Alice forgave him and we watched him walk his daughter down the aisle. Anastasia put her red dresses aside, and became the White Queen, making Will the White King.

Alice and Cyrus stayed in her world, while Will and Anastasia went back to Wonderland, but not before the two close friends that we got the chance to watch in these past 13 episodes shared a hug and said an “I’ll see you soon”. I feel like the friendship between Will and Alice was a bit underrated sometimes, but maybe that is still realistic because we don’t usually give much value to the things/people we see every day, only to those that we don’t. It is only when those people leave that we realize we will miss them a lot.

This season finale, as I said before, turned out to be a series finale, and even though it sucks that it got cancelled, I sometimes feel like it was for the best. This show was supposed to be an anthology of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, which means, even though we would probably still see an Alice, and a Knave…, it wouldn’t be our Alice nor our Knave. Also, there would probably not be a Cyrus next time (since he isn’t part of the original story). And it would also make things confusing while we would try to realize which season would be considered canon to the main show. That is why I like to see Once Upon A Time in Wonderland as a miniseries, because that is really what it looks like.

This was definitely an incredible episode, the best of the show in my opinion, and so it is worthy of a 9.7/10.

Sadly, I now conclude my reviews of this amazing show. I keep on saying that it was really great it finished well, with everyone happy, because pretty much every cancelled show doesn’t have that much luck. I am sure Alice and Cyrus started living their Happy Beginning, until some other villain decided to try to take away their happiness (but don’t worry, because I am sure he/she didn’t succeed).