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[shadowkat]

Watching tonight's "OUAT", entitled "The Evil Queen", and it is hilarious in places..



Regina (after killing an entire village): Why don't they love me?
Rumple: Well, you did just burn an entire village.
Regina: Once I kill Snow...they'll see how kind I can be.
Rumple: Through the burning embers of their homes?
Regina: That's her fault. Snow's the villain, I'm not. They'll see that after she's dead.
Rumple: No, they'll just fear you, they'll never love you. You are the Evil Queen.
Regina: How can you say that! I'm not the evil, she is.

Sigh. How delusional can a character be?

Of course this is a woman who has a picture of dragonflies on her wall.

Later...to Henry.

Regina: See they've been lying to you about the magic beans. They'll take you and me back to the Enchanted Forest and I can show you that I'm a hero!
Henry: Isn't Enchanted Forest destroyed? And maybe they didn't mean to lie to you, they are just waiting to tell us?
Regina: No, no they don't want me to come. Plus...There's a fail safe, we escape to the Enchanted Forest, I pull the fail safe on the curse and it will be as if it never happened. And we can escape it, you and I. I'll be your hero!
Henry: What will happen to Storybrook?
Regina: It will disappear.
Henry: And everyone who lives here?
Regina: Everyone will die. And I can be the hero!
Henry: No, if you kill everyone that would make you the villain.

So she erases his memory. Because ooopsie, that didn't work.

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I think they should have thought of a different angle for this... because the Queen's delusion is too ridiculous. There must have been a way to present it that wasn't so stupid and unbelievable (but I'm still loving Rumplestiltskin and the way he jerks everyone around!).

I finally caught up on Glee... and I fast forwarded through most of the songs. The only one I really loved was 'Everything was Beautiful at the Ballet'... and I guess occasionally loving one song is enough to make me keep watching it (or fast forwarding through it... whatever).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I think they should have thought of a different angle for this... because the Queen's delusion is too ridiculous. There must have been a way to present it that wasn't so stupid and unbelievable (but I'm still loving Rumplestiltskin and the way he jerks everyone around!).

Yet oddly hilarious. It's too absurd to take seriously. I loved the interactions. Talk about dense as a rock. No one can be that delusional.
And the writers appear to realize this - that dialogue was clearly written with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

Although...I was admittedly thinking halfway through...okay, Regina's out of her gorge, can we kill her now - please? Find a more interesting villain...eh enter Hook, Owen and Tamara, who are not only more interesting but appear to actually be somewhat bright and not delusional.

Agree on Glee...I stuck with it, because I knew they were going to do one of my favorite Songs from a Chorus line - "at the ballet", and they didn't do the song the way I thought they would, which was refreshing. Apparently Sarah Jessica Parker can sing. Who knew?

The rest of it...sigh. And the songs..okay, I did like their version of "We Will Rock You" - Queen, but that's just because I have a weakness for Queen.
And while I like "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" - Sam doesn't have the voice for it. Rest of it, not memorable.

Jane Lynch's number from Annie - Little Girls wasn't bad, Jane Lynch can also sing apparently.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I don't think Sarah Jessica Parker has a strong voice, or has much range, but she really was able to carry off her part of 'At the Ballet' beautifully. I was impressed.
And I think I read that Jane Lynch was going to be on Broadway in 'Annie' playing Miss Hannigan (I'm sure she'll be hilarious).
I am a sucker for show tunes.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Really, I've come to the end of my rope of credulity with Regina. She is a Crazy Person. And not because she's evil. Because Her Logic is Not Our Earth Logic.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yet, absurdly funny at times. The writer's clearly appear to know she's deranged, they actually wrote that comically. (I'm willing to bet money Espenson wrote those scenes. It has her comedic touch for absurdity.)

Maybe being captured and potentially tortured by the Evil Tamara (who actually seems more logical as does Owen for that matter) will give her a change of heart?

I don't know. After this episode it's hard to see the character as salvageable. I was thinking during the episode, okay, this has got to be the worst drawn character in this series, can we kill her now, please?
Either that or write her better.

Regina: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.

Oh well, at least the actress appears to be having fun with it - she sneers very well. Lots of teeth.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

At some point, though, the actress will tire of playing a character without an ounce of depth. And she'll either bail or demand that someone shade in the colorless stick-drawing.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It's a hard role to play. She has to constantly act deluded.
Barbara Hershey's role as Cora oddly, had more depth. Again, saying something.

They have to do a better job. Because she's right now either comic-relief (I'm sorry I can't take her seriously at this point) or just plain annoying. (Unless of course you are a heterosexual male with the hots for the character, I do not know if she appeals to lesbians or not.
But she definitely appeals to heterosexual males...that I've discovered.)

And she's only comic relief if paired with either Henry or Rumple.

One tv critic ( a heterosexual male) blew my mind - he said she's amazing and steals the show with her bile. And her scene with Henry is chilling. I saw it and I thought, sorry, chilling doesn't come to mind, ludicrious maybe? And ridiculous. (Seriously is the critic thinking with his gonads or is he smoking something? I do wonder about people sometimes.)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Well, *I'm* not attracted to her, really, but that has more to do with her reminding me of my sister at that age than anything else. I can't claim much of a moral high ground with women I find attractive.

And I agree entirely with you. I thought that scene with Henry was a fantasy sequence that existed entirely in her head until she erased Henry's memory. It was just too ludicrous to be believed. I AM sort of glad she did erase Henry's memory of it because that would scare the shit out of a kid (and maybe that's why it's Just So Ludicrous). I wouldn't approve of the memory-erase if it were an adult.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I had someone tell me that she was hot. And I thought, well, heterosexual female here - so can't tell. Honestly I think Emma and Tamara are more attractive, but what do I know? And I certainly can't claim a moral high ground - hello, Spike, Sawyer and Hook! LOL! Although even if she was a guy, I'd think she was too stupid to live.

Agreed...I was sort of happy with the memory wipe as well, because her speech to Henry made no sense. Yet...how is it Henry remembered the bit about the magic beans and portals? Yet not that anyone lied to him about it? Did she just not do a complete wipe?
And why???