Technology, OUAT and Chocolate
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shadowkat1. Co-worker: Can I go home now? This technology is driving me insane.
(Unfortunately, she's not wrong...and this happens to me all the time. Buggy. Technology is buggy.)
2. Once Upon a Time has gotten really clever with its plotting. Methinks, Rumplestilskin didn't think his latest plan all the way through. He keeps underestimating Emma and Henry's uncanny ability to screw up his plans. Not to mention the Charmings - who actually managed to come across as more villainous and horrific in this episode than everyone else. Kudos writers.
I'm enjoying this season. Most interesting plot line to date. Lots of cool and unpredictable plot twists.
Apparently Snow White and Prince Charming decided to ensure their daughter became a bonafide hero, by sending her darkness or potential for darkness into Maleficiant's child, because obviously Mal's kid would be nasty. They intended to give Mal's kid back to her afterwards, but the Socerer or the Socerer's Apprentice sent her to our world.
At least I think it was our world or the land without magic, along with Mal's henchwomen, Cruella and Ursula. Seriously, what did the land without magic do to deserve this?
They are upset about this turn of events. And rightly so. Snow frets that she has done something unaccountably evil and selfish - yep. She not only took away Emma's choice to be either good or evil, she also took away Malificiant's child's choice. She played God with children - all to serve her own ends. Then, to add insult to injury, she removed the child from it's biological mother - and sent it to an unsuspecting world and unsuspecting parents. Seems almost karmic that the same thing happened to her own child, except unlike Mal's Lilith, Emma never got the loving family.
I don't blame Emma for forsaking Snow and Charming after that turn of events. And they don't stop there - they actually consider destroying the page, in which the author is trapped. Forever trapping the author inside his own book.
Although...from what August explains to Emma, that may not be a bad idea. I rather like the return of August to the storyline. Provides Hook with a bit of competition...well not exactly, August is if anything more like a brother to Emma than a romantic interest.Got to give OUAT writers credit for this much - they aren't into drawn out love triangles, unlike ahem, other television serials which make the love triangles the drivers of the plot.
The author apparently decided to manipulate the story as opposed to merely record events. Or tell it - play God as it were. He wrote that Snow and Charming took Mal's kid and worked to enable them to do so. He also wrote that Regina would enact a curse.
It's not clear that he goes back far enough to affect Rumple's storyline or provide Rumple with a happy ending. So bringing back the author and convincing him to change the story - to write the villains a happy ending may not be a bad idea. Except, that the author was removed from the picture long before the curse was actually enacted or Emma was actually born.
Also he apparently has ideas of his own. When asked why he had them curse Mal's kid, he said it made for a better story.
I rather like this storyline - it is playing with the whole concept of storytelling and what it means to tell stories. It also reminds me a great deal of Ian McEwan's Atonement, except I prefer it - more heart, less head.
The other clever twist is from the previews for the next episode - which will be in two weeks..."Easter Break folks" - it appears that once again Rumplestilskin miscalculated.
At the end of this episode - the author takes off, the little minx, and Emma is at a loss as to where he is.
3. Struggling with the chocolate addiction. I actually bought unsweetened Bakers chocolate mixed it with almond milk, a dash of honey and maple syrup, to make my own chocolate dipping sauce for fruit. Sigh. You know you are hopelessly addicted to chocolate when you do that. In my defense, it's that time of month. Menstrual cycle.
And eh, chocolate and salt and fruit is what I crave. Whether I should actually have it or not. The bunion on my left foot two hours later screamed out in protest.
(Unfortunately, she's not wrong...and this happens to me all the time. Buggy. Technology is buggy.)
2. Once Upon a Time has gotten really clever with its plotting. Methinks, Rumplestilskin didn't think his latest plan all the way through. He keeps underestimating Emma and Henry's uncanny ability to screw up his plans. Not to mention the Charmings - who actually managed to come across as more villainous and horrific in this episode than everyone else. Kudos writers.
I'm enjoying this season. Most interesting plot line to date. Lots of cool and unpredictable plot twists.
Apparently Snow White and Prince Charming decided to ensure their daughter became a bonafide hero, by sending her darkness or potential for darkness into Maleficiant's child, because obviously Mal's kid would be nasty. They intended to give Mal's kid back to her afterwards, but the Socerer or the Socerer's Apprentice sent her to our world.
At least I think it was our world or the land without magic, along with Mal's henchwomen, Cruella and Ursula. Seriously, what did the land without magic do to deserve this?
They are upset about this turn of events. And rightly so. Snow frets that she has done something unaccountably evil and selfish - yep. She not only took away Emma's choice to be either good or evil, she also took away Malificiant's child's choice. She played God with children - all to serve her own ends. Then, to add insult to injury, she removed the child from it's biological mother - and sent it to an unsuspecting world and unsuspecting parents. Seems almost karmic that the same thing happened to her own child, except unlike Mal's Lilith, Emma never got the loving family.
I don't blame Emma for forsaking Snow and Charming after that turn of events. And they don't stop there - they actually consider destroying the page, in which the author is trapped. Forever trapping the author inside his own book.
Although...from what August explains to Emma, that may not be a bad idea. I rather like the return of August to the storyline. Provides Hook with a bit of competition...well not exactly, August is if anything more like a brother to Emma than a romantic interest.Got to give OUAT writers credit for this much - they aren't into drawn out love triangles, unlike ahem, other television serials which make the love triangles the drivers of the plot.
The author apparently decided to manipulate the story as opposed to merely record events. Or tell it - play God as it were. He wrote that Snow and Charming took Mal's kid and worked to enable them to do so. He also wrote that Regina would enact a curse.
It's not clear that he goes back far enough to affect Rumple's storyline or provide Rumple with a happy ending. So bringing back the author and convincing him to change the story - to write the villains a happy ending may not be a bad idea. Except, that the author was removed from the picture long before the curse was actually enacted or Emma was actually born.
Also he apparently has ideas of his own. When asked why he had them curse Mal's kid, he said it made for a better story.
I rather like this storyline - it is playing with the whole concept of storytelling and what it means to tell stories. It also reminds me a great deal of Ian McEwan's Atonement, except I prefer it - more heart, less head.
The other clever twist is from the previews for the next episode - which will be in two weeks..."Easter Break folks" - it appears that once again Rumplestilskin miscalculated.
At the end of this episode - the author takes off, the little minx, and Emma is at a loss as to where he is.
3. Struggling with the chocolate addiction. I actually bought unsweetened Bakers chocolate mixed it with almond milk, a dash of honey and maple syrup, to make my own chocolate dipping sauce for fruit. Sigh. You know you are hopelessly addicted to chocolate when you do that. In my defense, it's that time of month. Menstrual cycle.
And eh, chocolate and salt and fruit is what I crave. Whether I should actually have it or not. The bunion on my left foot two hours later screamed out in protest.
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Date: 2015-03-31 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-31 05:50 pm (UTC)I've done it, too, either with the syrup or the honey, but not both together. Now, though... hmmm...
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Date: 2015-03-31 09:51 pm (UTC)I've gotten very good at substitutions. But it kept me up last night. Dang body can't handle caffeine.
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Date: 2015-03-31 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-31 09:54 pm (UTC)Your g'father sounds like my kind of guy. :)
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Date: 2015-03-31 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-04-01 01:20 am (UTC)I have an unsweetened organic hot coco mix that is amazing. I may bring that to work tomorrow...to help with the chocolate craving. Except I can never just do one cup of hot coco.
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