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Once Upon a Time (ABC) - 1x02 till the bitter end

PS Saturday Night Live writing staff has some Once Upon a Time fans. They did an homage called Real Housewives of Disney World! Funny and useful. After seeing that I don't need to see any other Real Housewives shows.

I don't see the connection. It was Real Housewives of Disney not Real Housewives of Once Upon a Time. You could have never seen an episode of Once Upon a Time and wrote that skit based just on knowledge of Disney movies. In fact there is nothing in the skit remotely related to Once Upon a Time besides that they both share the same Disney source.
 
Amy Acker was Fred from Angel right? I did not make the connection until reading this thread. I did not recognize the actress' face but recognized the name. I could not place it though.

They should just somehow put Mary Margaret and David together. The two actors work well together and the push and pull in the "real world" is starting to grate on me for some reason. I like them together but don't like the longing.

I did not notice that EB's name has been moved to series regular. I was too busy watching the dwarves move through the woods.

I wonder at what point in her story did Belle encounter the dwarves? From what she said it sounded post Rumple but before the queen got her? I assume the Queen had her snatched up after she figured out that Rumple really wanted Belle.

I wonder if David's wife is sitting in a cell with Belle now? I don't think the Queen will leave ruining David and Mary Margaret to chance.
 
They should just somehow put Mary Margaret and David together. The two actors work well together and the push and pull in the "real world" is starting to grate on me for some reason. I like them together but don't like the longing.
One way to break a curse is a kiss of true love.

I'm not sure if Mary Margaret and David have kissed yet? I'll have to go back through the episodes.... But they haven't quite achieved true love yet, in the sense of both of them being immersed and committed at the same time. When David makes his choice, Mary Margaret pulls back...

So what I'm getting at, I'm thinking that Mary Margaret and David getting together means breaking the spell and ending the series. We won't see it right away. Certainly Mayor Vagina is working hard enough to keep them apart.
 
They have kissed, but I think part of the Curse is that only Emma can truly free you from the effect. It was HER kissing Graham that freed him before Regina killed him, and others only get happy endings to their current problems because she intervenes.

So maybe kissing because of something she causes will be the additional thing they need to break the curse.
 
Argh! Speaking of threeway, I'm now 3 episodes behind.* This happens with every show I watch. I should just say screw it and wait for the Blu-rays.

I made up for it by visiting Steveston yesterday (the suburb of Vancouver where they film it). Worth checking out, especially while they still have some of the buildings up with the Storybrooke signage.

Alex

*Respectfully submitted for "Worst Segue of 2012" trophy in the next TrekBBS Awards
 
I wonder if David's wife is sitting in a cell with Belle now? .


That would be my guess.

Logical, though it would be interesting to know who's providing Regina's muscle. But it is perhaps too logical. David's vindication would seem to require Regina's exposure, and this would be rather premature. Yet a permanent cloud thrown by suspicion of murder is too likely to finish David/Mary Margaret.

Kathryn's happy ending involved ditching Prince Charming, then getting golden boy back. The Queen's curse shackled her to David. Leaving Storybrooke was self-liberation. In other words, there's a chance that Kathryn has started her happy ending by getting out of Storybrooke, back to Fairy Tale Land. The car's left there because it belongs in the real world.

There's also a chance that it was Gold who engineered the disappearance precisely because the investigation will ask "cui bono?" Then, it could lead to Regina's downfall. At least, so he might hope. The mechanics of how he might do this are pretty vague, but this is a fantasy.

The arbitrariness of fantasy leaves us more or less at the whim of the writers. We can hope that at least the characters aren't as elastic as the plot restrictions. Regina speaks of Kathryn as her friend. Regina was the Queen, who had no friends, but is the Mayor truly still the same? Rumplestiltskin has been softened (or deepened, if you will,) and he is continuous with Gold. But in a certain kind of popular fiction, it's women who are truly evil. It would be disappointing if Once Upon a Time fell into this nasty little stereotype.
 
I'm curious if the Big Bad Wolf in this weekend's episode is around in Storybrooke somewhere?
 
Wasn't somebody suggesting that "Doctor Whale" might be the Big Bad Wolf ("Doctor Wail")? Maybe we'll see him return, has he been around at all lately?
 
Wasn't somebody suggesting that "Doctor Whale" might be the Big Bad Wolf ("Doctor Wail")? Maybe we'll see him return, has he been around at all lately?

I'm not sure if it's true, but according to imdb he has only appeared in two episodes so far, the last one being "The Shepherd" in December.
 
Yeah, I don't think we've seen him since David left the hospital.

But he was ogling Ruby/Red Riding Hood at the diner while on a date with Mary Margaret, if that even means anything on a show like this.
 
It was nice that they gave Red something to do other than being Snow's friend, and now we know how they met.

It is a good twist that Ruby and her Grandma are the wolves.

I guess Dr. Whale just likes Red full stop. He seems highly interested in her. She seems not to notice him at all though.

I suppose the Mayor had Katherine killed? How else do you get your hands on a human heart?
 
I wonder at what point in her story did Belle encounter the dwarves? From what she said it sounded post Rumple but before the queen got her? I assume the Queen had her snatched up after she figured out that Rumple really wanted Belle.

I'm running a week behind so I just saw the Dwarves episode. When I saw this scene I assumed this was after Belle told Rumple to go to hell but before she returned home (assuming she actually returned home - it's a given that what the Queen told Rumple about her and the tower was BS). I really liked the idea of "pure" Belle from Beauty and the Beast being jilted and going on a drunk at the local tavern. I thought it was a great scene, but if I was the director I'd actually have had Emilie play Belle a bit more tipsy. (Might have made a cool bit of contrast considering Grumpy becomes the town drunk in Storybrooke.) Here's hoping we see more appearances by Belle (even if they're just drop-in cameos like this). I get the feeling not everyone's a fan of the character but I thought it worked out really well.

Lee and Ginnifer had great comic chemistry in the episode too - I hope they get more two-handers like that.

Now I'm off to get caught up on the most recent episode.

Alex
 
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