I was gaping at Regina through most of this ep, but towards the end I started thinking, this is her falling back before she gets better at the end of the season. Right?? Don't want her B&W, in a good way or bad way, but *somebody's* got to be the bad guy on a show like this, and if both Regina and Rumple are redeemed, that would get dull. But shades of gray would be nice.
Didn't like how Rumple is suddenly so cruel to Henry. I suppose it makes sense, though, he hadn't put all the pieces of the future together until now, and now he realizes Henry is his doom. *And* his grandson, Bae's son. He knows if he hurt Henry, he'd lose Baelfire forever. And I think he honestly feared Henry would interfere with him getting back to Storybrooke and magic, and that's how he would doom Rumple.
As for Henry+Emma, Henry has lived in a black-and-white Fairytale world up until now. He is always with the "Good always wins and there's always a happy ending" world-view. Emma burst that bubble--showed him his mother and all heroes are fallible/human--so her small white lie had a much bigger impact on Henry than it warranted, and it's going to take him a while to sort that out. He is a kid, after all. You gotta cut him some slack. OTOH, there were moments in the episode where Henry treated her like he always does, so that was reassuring.
And of course since they started hinting that Neal would go to Storybrooke and Neal and Henry were bonding, and Rumple was teasing Emma about wanting to get back together with Neal, Naturally, they had to add an obstacle in the form of a fiancee for Neal. Which was so out of the blue, she's either a nobody walk on-walk off part, OR she's Wendy or she's Ariel the mermaid or some other magical!world character who will actually stick around and interfere in Henry's parents reuniting.
Which actually gives me hope they might get Neal and Emma back together eventually. I figured they might just leave him in Manhattan and we'd only hear from him every blue moon when Henry went down for a visit. So him visiting Storybrooke to help his father and there being a romantic obstacle means there will be Moar Baelfire. Which is, like, yay.
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Date: 2013-03-04 02:45 am (UTC)Didn't like how Rumple is suddenly so cruel to Henry. I suppose it makes sense, though, he hadn't put all the pieces of the future together until now, and now he realizes Henry is his doom. *And* his grandson, Bae's son. He knows if he hurt Henry, he'd lose Baelfire forever. And I think he honestly feared Henry would interfere with him getting back to Storybrooke and magic, and that's how he would doom Rumple.
As for Henry+Emma, Henry has lived in a black-and-white Fairytale world up until now. He is always with the "Good always wins and there's always a happy ending" world-view. Emma burst that bubble--showed him his mother and all heroes are fallible/human--so her small white lie had a much bigger impact on Henry than it warranted, and it's going to take him a while to sort that out. He is a kid, after all. You gotta cut him some slack. OTOH, there were moments in the episode where Henry treated her like he always does, so that was reassuring.
And of course since they started hinting that Neal would go to Storybrooke and Neal and Henry were bonding, and Rumple was teasing Emma about wanting to get back together with Neal, Naturally, they had to add an obstacle in the form of a fiancee for Neal. Which was so out of the blue, she's either a nobody walk on-walk off part, OR she's Wendy or she's Ariel the mermaid or some other magical!world character who will actually stick around and interfere in Henry's parents reuniting.
Which actually gives me hope they might get Neal and Emma back together eventually. I figured they might just leave him in Manhattan and we'd only hear from him every blue moon when Henry went down for a visit. So him visiting Storybrooke to help his father and there being a romantic obstacle means there will be Moar Baelfire. Which is, like, yay.
Sometimes I want to smack kid!Snow.