#queue thinking what i'm thinking?

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Now I REEAALLLY want a Marvel/Sleepy Hollow crossover of some sort

Since we all know Crane = Captain America, and Abbie Mills is just as equal a contender, but now after last week’s episode we got Sheriff Corbin = Nick Fury, always a number of steps ahead of the game along with withholding their own secrets and agendas; Pandora & her creatures are like the Inhumans that were/are created and experimented on by a supernatural being (the Kree race); and that magic stone inside that shard artifact and what it started doing to Jenny says “Infinity Stone.” 

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I stand corrected. Turns out that Hawley AND Katrina are the Captain "Killian Jones" Hook of Sleepy Hollow. Hawley is the sleazy thief that does only what benefits himself while trying to work his way in the main female characters' pants good side to gain favors. Katrina is the side that pretends to be a hero, that the show itself tries so hard to play off as a hero, who only agrees to work in their (Team Witness) favor when it benefits herself and withholds enough relevant information and secret agendas behind everyone's back. And like Hook, manages to do just as much damage to the heroes as their enemies do. Yet the enemies are still more interesting, and more competent in their skills. 

And both those two and Hook are having their respective shows try to cater to their characters so much and try to turn them into main characters by trying to involve them in as many episodes as possible to the point they're just thrown in in excess to look useful.

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No honestly, I have no faith in "Save Henry" properly showing Regina as a loving mother.

Although I believe (and hope) the episode description meant Gold was the one with the initial intention of adopting Henry instead of Regina, there's this big implication going around that Mary Margaret is the one they mean. Which means they're going to go a great deal to frame Mary Margaret as a more competent and "better" mother to compare with Regina and that MM should have taken Henry instead, especially since she's his so-called "actual" family. And even if she isn't, I still believe they'll find a way to do that in order to not point in Regina's favor, given the show's huge mindset that "blood > non-biological parents."

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What really ticks me about Snow slapping Geppetto/Marco for not being able to go through the enchanted wardrobe with Emma

I get that Snow would be beyond pissed that she was cheated out of going with Emma. I think everyone would be insulted and call her insane if she wasn't. But then I read people are saying she was in the right or saying he deserved worse because, "You don't get between a mother and her child!"

And, though I already got this notion in early episodes, this just proved to me that everything and everyone are "supposed" to revolve around the Charmings. I don't mean in the fact that they make up 2/3 of the main characters. I mean that everything has to be bent over backwards to cater to their needs over others.

Because guess who else was robbed of not getting to see their child grow up? Geppetto. 

Contrary to what some people apparently believe, Geppetto is a parent. He considers Pinocchio his son. And considerably shady and perhaps stupid as it may have been to make the Blue Fairy promise Pinocchio's survival as the price for making the wardrobe and then leaving a roughly 7-year-old boy in charge of an infant, that was his way of doing whatever it took to save his child. Like any decent parent would, and as the Charmings did and would've done even if "one person only" rule would've been true. But neither that nor Snow is my problem. My problem with this is that this isn't the first time I've heard the child motive used as a reason for a character's actions (Rumplestiltskin and Jefferson) yet this is the one of the first times it's not considered a valid reason. Because how is this so different or worse than Rumple or Jefferson?

Rumple murdered people, manipulated more, and fucked all sort of shit up for the Dark Curse and revenge, but it's okay because he just wants to find his son. Jefferson kidnaps, drugs, holds Mary Margaret and Emma hostage and the latter at knifepoint, but he's not held accountable by them or anybody because he wants to be reunited with his daughter. Both get dismissed of their actions being called "villainous" with the mentality of their children being the motive. Geppetto does the same for his son, but he gets the crap by the fandom. Why? Because unlike Rumple and Jefferson's actions, Geppetto's interfered with the Charmings getting a happily ever after. 

And he shouldn't. Because not only did he also not get a happy ending either, sans the personal vendetta from Regina, he suffered the EXACT same fate as the Charmings of sending his child to who-knows-where alone and being separated from them for 28 years. Emma may have been the savior, but Pinocchio was literally the whole world for Geppetto too. No other family unless you count Jiminy. And when the curse broke, he was still alone. He had no idea what happened to his son, where he was, or what he even looked like or if he was still human until Henry told him, and only now gets a chance to be (consciously) reunited with August. Snow has every right to be angry and give Geppetto/Marco a piece of her mind and rage, but that doesn't entitle her to do whatever she wants to him like she's the only one who suffered because of him or the curse (or that only she could have avoided the curse); she doesn't earn the "right" to be berate Geppetto/Marco like he has no idea what she went through because of him, because he does.

And if we're going to be frank, I don't believe the "This isn't me" a.k.a. "Dark Snow" as valid because this behavior isn't new. She had no problem being ready to kill Mulan and letting Aurora die at enemy hands, even though Mulan didn't do anything Snow or Emma haven't already done before if roles were reversed, once again because it interfered with her wants of getting back to Storybrooke and her family being back together. Consider what you want about the line and her behavior, but it isn't something new.