Lady Tremaine’s MO, Hyperion depths, the belle in the Belfry, and the young girl with the purest of hearts. Plus, Regina and Cinderella bonding, Henry’s family, and what Cinderella actually did in our full discussion of “The Garden of Forking Paths” sponsored by Creation Entertainment!

As a whole, The Garden of Forking Paths is a decent episode. Dania J. Ramirez is a great actress and doing a fantastic job as Cinderella/Jacinda. Last episode was messy, but this episode was the complete opposite of that. It’s hard to get on board with this series as they are taking directions they (fans) didn’t want to go. We loved some things about it, but we expected more from it. They are clearly making things as they go, repeating plot lines we’ve seen and heard before and trying to fast-track it as opposed to what we’ve seen during the first season. But while the episode had its “meh” moments, it had a pretty clean storyline. It wasn’t confusing and there was even a timeline tie-in in the flashback with Henry, Regina and Hook, which they dovetailed very well with what is currently happening in Hyperion Heights.

Lady Tremaine’s MO

While the episode had weak contradictions, Lady Tremaine seems someone of prominence who Tiana, the leader of the resistance, plans to overthrow along with the Royal Family. At first, Tiana made it seem like the Prince and Lady Tremaine were on the same side, but later they made it sound like the Prince killed Cinderella’s father, but did he really or did Lady Tremaine plan it all along? Was the Prince forced to kill Cinderella’s father? Who is the Prince in Hyperion Heights? Is he even in Hyperion Heights?

On the other hand, Tiana and Hook seemed to have a thing for each other, but is Tiana okay with Regina having magic? Did they even know that Regina was the Evil Queen? Do they even know about the Savior’s existence? Lady Tremaine figured out who Henry was, but how did she know that he has the heart of the truest believer? Is Jeremiah significant?

A couple of things we learned about Lady Tremaine in this episode is that she is accruing magical items, blaming and punishing Cinderella for what she did. It was pretty cool when Cinderella got to Lady Tremaine’s estate. It was also a cool twist that Lady Tremaine actually wants to take revenge on Cinderella and it was intriguing that Cinderella said she was responsible for Anastasia’s death. What did actually happen to Anastasia? How was Cinderella responsible for her death or is she just blaming herself?

Is Victoria Belfry awake? She did refer to Jacinda as Cinderella and Lucy as Henry’s daughter, after all. Was, all of this time, building a condo because she just want to try to find the coffin? She does seem to have this MO of taking people’s homes. On the little form that they printed out, everything on that page was totally legit as ABC actually registered the domain HyperionHeightsBuildingCommission.com back in July this year.

One other thing about Victoria is she wants to save Anastasia from a certain death. It seems like she is involved in casting, if not the one who cast this curse and the whole purpose of this curse is to bring Henry so she could t...