Once Upon A Time - Tonight's Episode
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shadowkatWhy are the Rumplestilskin episodes always the best? It's not just Robert Carylyle, it's also the plotting.
* Aha...Regina didn't know Henry was Baelfire's kid. Apparently she was so focused on killing Henry's family that the reason Baelfire returned to Storybrook was lost on her.
Rumple was sort of funny - "You managed to miss that particular bit of news? Ah, let me enlighten you. He's Baelfire's son."
Regina: What? You mean to tell me you are Henry's Grandfather?
Rumple: Yep, guess that makes us indirectly related.
Regina: You totally planned this!
Rumple: Actually no. I had no clue.
Regina: That's not possible. There's no way you couldn't have known. You procured Henry for me.
Rumple (shrugs): Came as a bit of surprise to me too. (And the actor playing Rumple showed his surprise better too. What is it about pretty people and their inability to emote well?)
Regina (give the actress credit - she's trying): This can't be just a coincidence.
Rumple (shrugs): No. It's fate.
Well misery loves company and Regina insists on Rumple joining her. She proceeds to bait him with the fact that who is he fooling, no one wants him either. They'll never let him in.
(Regina, darling, stop baiting Rumple - it's counterproductive to your ends. She's so good at shooting herself in the foot, it's almost laughable. Honey, Rumple unlike you is not fantasizing about killing Snow and her family, he's dreaming about killing Henry. Keep it up and he will. Sometimes you just want to smack the character upside the head.)
* Regina, being the brilliant strategist that she is, decides to go jar some of Belle's post-cure memories. Apparently the curse made everyone the opposite of who they actually were. Well in some respects at any rate. In the non-magical world - Belle is a femme fatale with a thing for the bad boys. She's not interested in the good in people, but the nasty. In short she'd much rather hump the Sheriff of Nottingham than Gold. Granted the Sheriff is sort of hot. Oddly hotter than Robin Hood - who doesn't appear to be in storybrook yet. But is in the FTL flashacks.
Belle is now Lacey and love the Rabbit Hole - which is most likely run by the White Rabbit.
And frequented by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Everyone is afraid of Gold, but she has no idea why. He's so nice to her. Well that is until he stumbles upon her and the Sheriff, and she
rejects him. Then he decides, you know what - why bother, I'll just be nasty and remove the Sheriff's tongue while I beat him senseless. I'd care - but this is the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is a bit of a creep.
Also...Lacy and Belle have one thing in common - both are insanelydumb niave. Seriously, if everyone is afraid of Gold - don't you think there may be something to that, honey? Just because you haven't seen it - doesn't mean there's not some truth to it.
Gold has gone to Charming to ask for help in wooing Lacey/Belle again. Charming tells him to remind her what she saw in him in the first place that's what worked for him and Snow (well that and the whole one true love bit...but we won't go there). Gold follows his advice and it doesn't quite work - mainly because Lacey unlike Belle, has a yen for power - and Gold is being well nice and sort of wimpy. She wants a hot alpha male with a dark edge - someone like Hook. Where is Hook when we need him? (Wait I'll get back to that in a minute).
Lucky for her, Gold has a dark side, and has no problem expressing it.
I think Regina would have been better off letting well enough alone.
* Regina confronts Emma regarding Neal.
Regina: How long did you think you could keep this from me?
Emma (who has her own issues to worry over, rolls her eyes. Regina is so high maintenance.): Sorry, was sort of busy preventing you from killing my entire family at the time.
Regina: What are you hiding from me? You are hiding something. I will find out.
Emma: This may come as a shock to you but not everyone is scheming to get what they want just because you are.
Go Emma. Although you did clue Regina into something - you have to work on that hiding secrets deal.
* Meanwhile Tamara and Greg are busy scheming...they apparently brought a package to help them out. Or Tamara brought it with her. Surprise surprise - it's our old friend Hook. Turns out we were right - Tamara let Hook out of the lock-up bin, that Emma placed him in. Okay not so much let him out as abducted him as a secret weapon. Sort of a lame secret weapon - considering all he has managed to do to date is knock Belle's memories from her, and almost kill Rumple - okay those things are pretty major, but aren't they after Regina? Maybe they want to get the dark one's magic, assuming of course they know about it.
Hook's weakness appears to be women. They keep getting the better of him and double-crossing him.
Not sure what Tamara and Greg's end game is exactly. They want to find Greg's Dad, we know that much, assuming the father is still here. And they want to do something with magic, but other than that I don't know.
It's ironic that Emma is the only one worrying over what Pinnochio attempted to tell her - because honestly I think she's probably safest, her and Henry. Tamara and Greg are after everyone else. And Neal's reaction to her statement of worry is endearing and ironic as well, dude you are in for a major shock soon, not to mention a great deal of heart break, but on a brighter note - your father has returned to his dark side. So there's that.
* Speaking of Rumple - Rumple has a nightmare at the beginning of the episode, where he turns Henry into a porceline boy on his birthday and then breaks him with the wand in front of the entire family. He jars awake, horrified. Which means he probably won't do it. After all it wasn't exactly a nice dream, but a frightening one. (I'm not worried about them killing off Henry. Other characters sure, but not the kid. The most they'll do is make him grow up fast. This is broadcast tv, and it's marketed as family fare, you don't kill off kids in those types of shows. Even LOST didn't do it.)
The Rumple episodes handle the small bits and pieces we get of Henry, Neal, Emma, Snow and Charming better than the non-Rumple episodes...in my humble opinion. They seem to have more to do and aren't just standing around looking puzzled or observing.
* Like the Lacy plot twist with Belle. And Belle in FTL is in some respects more interesting than Belle in Storybrook was. Although that's true with a lot of characters. I can see why Snow and Charming want to go back to FTL now.
* Regina (who really has issues of her own and should stop worrying and scheming against the Charming family but she's obsessed, what can you do?): has decided to figure out what they are hiding from her and up to. Turns out they are growing magic beans and plotting their escape root back to FTL. Emma was similarily astonished. "Why do you want to go back there? There's ogres and stuff! It's hardly safe." Snow and Charming: "But we can make it safe, it's a challenge..." Snow - "I had a change of heart since I killed Cora - I want to redeem myself in the Enchanted Kingdom. Come with!" Emma: "But...I'm used to here."
I can't say I blame Emma. Gee what to pick. A Post-apocalyptic FTL with ogres, giants, and other problems, or Storybrook and the wide wide world outside it. Keep in mind, Emma isn't limited to Storybrook like everyone else is.
She's conflicted. And when she asks Neal what he wants to do - he more or less agrees - spent my life trying to get away from that world. Yes, well, guess what dude, you can't run away from your past or fate, it catches up with you.
Overall a fun episode, with lots of rewinding on my part.
* Aha...Regina didn't know Henry was Baelfire's kid. Apparently she was so focused on killing Henry's family that the reason Baelfire returned to Storybrook was lost on her.
Rumple was sort of funny - "You managed to miss that particular bit of news? Ah, let me enlighten you. He's Baelfire's son."
Regina: What? You mean to tell me you are Henry's Grandfather?
Rumple: Yep, guess that makes us indirectly related.
Regina: You totally planned this!
Rumple: Actually no. I had no clue.
Regina: That's not possible. There's no way you couldn't have known. You procured Henry for me.
Rumple (shrugs): Came as a bit of surprise to me too. (And the actor playing Rumple showed his surprise better too. What is it about pretty people and their inability to emote well?)
Regina (give the actress credit - she's trying): This can't be just a coincidence.
Rumple (shrugs): No. It's fate.
Well misery loves company and Regina insists on Rumple joining her. She proceeds to bait him with the fact that who is he fooling, no one wants him either. They'll never let him in.
(Regina, darling, stop baiting Rumple - it's counterproductive to your ends. She's so good at shooting herself in the foot, it's almost laughable. Honey, Rumple unlike you is not fantasizing about killing Snow and her family, he's dreaming about killing Henry. Keep it up and he will. Sometimes you just want to smack the character upside the head.)
* Regina, being the brilliant strategist that she is, decides to go jar some of Belle's post-cure memories. Apparently the curse made everyone the opposite of who they actually were. Well in some respects at any rate. In the non-magical world - Belle is a femme fatale with a thing for the bad boys. She's not interested in the good in people, but the nasty. In short she'd much rather hump the Sheriff of Nottingham than Gold. Granted the Sheriff is sort of hot. Oddly hotter than Robin Hood - who doesn't appear to be in storybrook yet. But is in the FTL flashacks.
Belle is now Lacey and love the Rabbit Hole - which is most likely run by the White Rabbit.
And frequented by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Everyone is afraid of Gold, but she has no idea why. He's so nice to her. Well that is until he stumbles upon her and the Sheriff, and she
rejects him. Then he decides, you know what - why bother, I'll just be nasty and remove the Sheriff's tongue while I beat him senseless. I'd care - but this is the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is a bit of a creep.
Also...Lacy and Belle have one thing in common - both are insanely
Gold has gone to Charming to ask for help in wooing Lacey/Belle again. Charming tells him to remind her what she saw in him in the first place that's what worked for him and Snow (well that and the whole one true love bit...but we won't go there). Gold follows his advice and it doesn't quite work - mainly because Lacey unlike Belle, has a yen for power - and Gold is being well nice and sort of wimpy. She wants a hot alpha male with a dark edge - someone like Hook. Where is Hook when we need him? (Wait I'll get back to that in a minute).
Lucky for her, Gold has a dark side, and has no problem expressing it.
I think Regina would have been better off letting well enough alone.
* Regina confronts Emma regarding Neal.
Regina: How long did you think you could keep this from me?
Emma (who has her own issues to worry over, rolls her eyes. Regina is so high maintenance.): Sorry, was sort of busy preventing you from killing my entire family at the time.
Regina: What are you hiding from me? You are hiding something. I will find out.
Emma: This may come as a shock to you but not everyone is scheming to get what they want just because you are.
Go Emma. Although you did clue Regina into something - you have to work on that hiding secrets deal.
* Meanwhile Tamara and Greg are busy scheming...they apparently brought a package to help them out. Or Tamara brought it with her. Surprise surprise - it's our old friend Hook. Turns out we were right - Tamara let Hook out of the lock-up bin, that Emma placed him in. Okay not so much let him out as abducted him as a secret weapon. Sort of a lame secret weapon - considering all he has managed to do to date is knock Belle's memories from her, and almost kill Rumple - okay those things are pretty major, but aren't they after Regina? Maybe they want to get the dark one's magic, assuming of course they know about it.
Hook's weakness appears to be women. They keep getting the better of him and double-crossing him.
Not sure what Tamara and Greg's end game is exactly. They want to find Greg's Dad, we know that much, assuming the father is still here. And they want to do something with magic, but other than that I don't know.
It's ironic that Emma is the only one worrying over what Pinnochio attempted to tell her - because honestly I think she's probably safest, her and Henry. Tamara and Greg are after everyone else. And Neal's reaction to her statement of worry is endearing and ironic as well, dude you are in for a major shock soon, not to mention a great deal of heart break, but on a brighter note - your father has returned to his dark side. So there's that.
* Speaking of Rumple - Rumple has a nightmare at the beginning of the episode, where he turns Henry into a porceline boy on his birthday and then breaks him with the wand in front of the entire family. He jars awake, horrified. Which means he probably won't do it. After all it wasn't exactly a nice dream, but a frightening one. (I'm not worried about them killing off Henry. Other characters sure, but not the kid. The most they'll do is make him grow up fast. This is broadcast tv, and it's marketed as family fare, you don't kill off kids in those types of shows. Even LOST didn't do it.)
The Rumple episodes handle the small bits and pieces we get of Henry, Neal, Emma, Snow and Charming better than the non-Rumple episodes...in my humble opinion. They seem to have more to do and aren't just standing around looking puzzled or observing.
* Like the Lacy plot twist with Belle. And Belle in FTL is in some respects more interesting than Belle in Storybrook was. Although that's true with a lot of characters. I can see why Snow and Charming want to go back to FTL now.
* Regina (who really has issues of her own and should stop worrying and scheming against the Charming family but she's obsessed, what can you do?): has decided to figure out what they are hiding from her and up to. Turns out they are growing magic beans and plotting their escape root back to FTL. Emma was similarily astonished. "Why do you want to go back there? There's ogres and stuff! It's hardly safe." Snow and Charming: "But we can make it safe, it's a challenge..." Snow - "I had a change of heart since I killed Cora - I want to redeem myself in the Enchanted Kingdom. Come with!" Emma: "But...I'm used to here."
I can't say I blame Emma. Gee what to pick. A Post-apocalyptic FTL with ogres, giants, and other problems, or Storybrook and the wide wide world outside it. Keep in mind, Emma isn't limited to Storybrook like everyone else is.
She's conflicted. And when she asks Neal what he wants to do - he more or less agrees - spent my life trying to get away from that world. Yes, well, guess what dude, you can't run away from your past or fate, it catches up with you.
Overall a fun episode, with lots of rewinding on my part.