OUAT Re-watch continues..
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shadowkatWatched a lot of Once Upon a Time episodes this weekend, mainly as stated previously, they are comforting. Plus this is right up my ally: 1) fantasy, 2) fairy tales, 3) talks about the nature of stories, 4) romance, 5) adventure, 6) kickass female heroine...and incredibly complex characters with twisty back stories.
* Regina is growing on me as a character. I'm also starting to understand her logic or why she's so stupid at times. It has a lot to do with the loss of love - an on-going theme. When Snow lost her love for Charming, she briefly goes batshit crazy, is cruel to everyone and loses herself in vengeance and grief. Regina's reactions losing Daniel are almost to the letter the same as Snow's upon losing Charming. Hook similarly loses his mind when Mela is killed. This explains so much. Also magic warps Regina's brain - it appears to warp everyone's brains. Rumple becomes a completely different person under the power of the Dark One, just as Regina does. The view is that "evil" isn't born, it's made and often by a series of increasingly bad choices.
The irony of Regina's situation is she almost had everything she wanted. Emma was leaving town, with just the threat of occasional visits to see Henry. But Regina couldn't handle Emma being out there, always a potential threat - so tried to kill her. As Emma puts it in episode 1.22 - you had won, I was leaving town - why did you do this? Regina states - because you'd still be out there, still a threat. I couldn't risk it. So as a result she loses everything. That's Regina's problem - she's an all or nothing gal, sigh, people are such extremists.
* I want to punch Mulan. It's a shame because I love the character - from the animated version. She's actually really cool - she learns to be a fighter to save her father's kingdom. Here she's written as a wee bit on the dumb side, stick up her ass, arrogant solider who takes orders and doesn't seem to think them through. She assumes Emma and Mary Margaret brought the wraith. Actually it was Rumple and Regina who did it. Rumple called the Wraith from FTL after it imprinted Phillip, and then Regina sent it back to FTL where it killed Philip. The episode is confusing. You can't quite tell the timeline. At any rate - just the fact that Emma and MM are in the same hole the wraith came out of - hardly means they sent it. This bit wasn't written well. It bugged me on first viewing and bugs me now.
* Regina and Rumple's knowledge of the curse is sort of explained in the last five episodes of S1 and the first 2 episodes of S2. They don't know everything due to the fact that magic can be a little unpredictable and doesn't always do what one expects. What they do know and did have control over?
Regina controlled what happened to everyone under the curse, what the curse would do to them. I don't think she wrote the fine details, so much as who they'd be. Your life tends to be dictated a great deal by your personality.
Rumple clearly constructed the curse as a last ditch effort to get to the Land Without Magic. He had tried everything prior to that. It's ironic - because Baelfire's attempt to redeem his father - by pulling them both to the Land Without Magic resulted in his father creating a horrible curse that ruined so many lives. He explains what he did to Belle in The Crocodile episode. He even put in fail safes - to ensure the curse could be broken with in a set period of time. And to ensure that he'd get his powers back afterwards. Regina is right when she tells Emma that Rumple manipulated all of it. He did.
Unfortunately for Rumple - magic is unpredictable and it comes with a price, two things of which he is all aware. But he's an expert in finding loop-holes and escape clauses. But one of the funniest scenes is when he's told after all his hard work - he's still stuck in Storybrook, because if he leaves to find Baelfire, he'll forget why he left and who he is.
Poor guy just can't win.
Regina and Rumple remind me a little of Wile E. Coyote - they outsmart themselves.
* Loving Charming and Snow right now, they actually work because they are in the background and their love story - ie. the star crossed lover bit hasn't been stretched out too thin.
They are separated at the beginning of S2, in a deft move - of creating/focusing on the mother/daughter bond between Snow and Emma, and the father/son bond between Charming and Henry. This show does ships better than most tv series that I've watched. It's amongst the few that I feel safe shipping canonical ships. Note:I'm a canon shipper, I rarely ship outside of canon.
* Regina is growing on me as a character. I'm also starting to understand her logic or why she's so stupid at times. It has a lot to do with the loss of love - an on-going theme. When Snow lost her love for Charming, she briefly goes batshit crazy, is cruel to everyone and loses herself in vengeance and grief. Regina's reactions losing Daniel are almost to the letter the same as Snow's upon losing Charming. Hook similarly loses his mind when Mela is killed. This explains so much. Also magic warps Regina's brain - it appears to warp everyone's brains. Rumple becomes a completely different person under the power of the Dark One, just as Regina does. The view is that "evil" isn't born, it's made and often by a series of increasingly bad choices.
The irony of Regina's situation is she almost had everything she wanted. Emma was leaving town, with just the threat of occasional visits to see Henry. But Regina couldn't handle Emma being out there, always a potential threat - so tried to kill her. As Emma puts it in episode 1.22 - you had won, I was leaving town - why did you do this? Regina states - because you'd still be out there, still a threat. I couldn't risk it. So as a result she loses everything. That's Regina's problem - she's an all or nothing gal, sigh, people are such extremists.
* I want to punch Mulan. It's a shame because I love the character - from the animated version. She's actually really cool - she learns to be a fighter to save her father's kingdom. Here she's written as a wee bit on the dumb side, stick up her ass, arrogant solider who takes orders and doesn't seem to think them through. She assumes Emma and Mary Margaret brought the wraith. Actually it was Rumple and Regina who did it. Rumple called the Wraith from FTL after it imprinted Phillip, and then Regina sent it back to FTL where it killed Philip. The episode is confusing. You can't quite tell the timeline. At any rate - just the fact that Emma and MM are in the same hole the wraith came out of - hardly means they sent it. This bit wasn't written well. It bugged me on first viewing and bugs me now.
* Regina and Rumple's knowledge of the curse is sort of explained in the last five episodes of S1 and the first 2 episodes of S2. They don't know everything due to the fact that magic can be a little unpredictable and doesn't always do what one expects. What they do know and did have control over?
Regina controlled what happened to everyone under the curse, what the curse would do to them. I don't think she wrote the fine details, so much as who they'd be. Your life tends to be dictated a great deal by your personality.
Rumple clearly constructed the curse as a last ditch effort to get to the Land Without Magic. He had tried everything prior to that. It's ironic - because Baelfire's attempt to redeem his father - by pulling them both to the Land Without Magic resulted in his father creating a horrible curse that ruined so many lives. He explains what he did to Belle in The Crocodile episode. He even put in fail safes - to ensure the curse could be broken with in a set period of time. And to ensure that he'd get his powers back afterwards. Regina is right when she tells Emma that Rumple manipulated all of it. He did.
Unfortunately for Rumple - magic is unpredictable and it comes with a price, two things of which he is all aware. But he's an expert in finding loop-holes and escape clauses. But one of the funniest scenes is when he's told after all his hard work - he's still stuck in Storybrook, because if he leaves to find Baelfire, he'll forget why he left and who he is.
Poor guy just can't win.
Regina and Rumple remind me a little of Wile E. Coyote - they outsmart themselves.
* Loving Charming and Snow right now, they actually work because they are in the background and their love story - ie. the star crossed lover bit hasn't been stretched out too thin.
They are separated at the beginning of S2, in a deft move - of creating/focusing on the mother/daughter bond between Snow and Emma, and the father/son bond between Charming and Henry. This show does ships better than most tv series that I've watched. It's amongst the few that I feel safe shipping canonical ships. Note:I'm a canon shipper, I rarely ship outside of canon.