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

[Sindatur]

Yea, 17 out of 22 episodes, is a Regular, LOL.

They got nervous, because other folks wanted her for Pilots, eh

 

[Aragorn]

Yeah, she appeared in more episodes than Jiminy Cricket who was part of the main cast.

 

[JD]

More screen time for her is definitely not a bad thing.

 

[RJDiogenes]

She was in a lot of episodes, but mostly walk-ons. I'll be happy to see her in a larger role-- especially if she's a Werewolf again.

 

[DevilEyes]

Still love the one look on Jiminy's face. "oh shit, I'm a cricket".

and unless I blinked and missed it he didn't suddenly transform into a cricket... Which would I think mean that August is still wooden man lying in a bed.

It didn't seem like the curse being lifted made physical changes, just mental/memory changes. Although Mr. Gold letting magic loose may bring about those reversions.

Everyone keeps comparing Pinocchio/August to Jiminy. But their situations are completely different. Jiminy was originally human, then was transformed into a cricket by magic. It made sense that he was human in a world without magic. Same thing with Sidney, who was presumably originally human, then turned into a Genie, then into a mirror. I'm not sure what will happen to them with the magic back, but I think they're probably remain human unless a new spell is cast. Just because there is magic in Storybrooke now, doesn't mean that everything is reset to how it was before they left it.

However, Pinocchio started off as a wooden boy - but alive thanks to magic. He wasn't originally human. That's why he was in danger of becoming wooden again without magic, while Jiminy and Sydney remained human. But in the Fairy Tale land, he was a live wooden boy, while in magicless world he became just a wooden boy (well, man). I'm not sure how things will work with him now, but in any case his situation is different from the others'.

So, Regina NEVER kissed Henry, on his sickbed, or ever before that, or her love was impure?

Or nobody ever loved anyone truly in Stroybrook?

Emma was the "savior" and the only one who could have broken the curse in Maine. She needed to believe, and she was the only one who could break the curse with true love.

Whoa. The curse over the town wasn't broken by Emma kissing Henry, it was broken because Emma suddenly believed in magic.

Hmm? Then why wasn't the curse broken at the beginning of the episode rather than the end?

The logic of Emma believing and the curse being broken were both pretty sketchy and conveeeenient. As was the notion that Emma's kiss was "true love." Motherly love, sure, but since when is that the same as the fairy-tale-kiss kind of love? I'm a purist, dammit! A pre-adolescent boy does not have a true love of that sort. It's not possible - his hormones haven't kicked in yet!

True love doesn't have to be romantic love. It's a really narrow-minded and ridiculous concept, and I'm glad the show has at least rejected that idea. (Even though they're sticking to the sappy "everyone has their own romantic heterosexual true love" trope I'm not the biggest fan of.)

Regarding the Queen of Hearts, yea, I suspect there's something big going on there, they deliberately kept her face hidden, for a reason (Maybe because it's someone we know, or will meet soon, or maybe simply because they haven't decided who to cast for the role)

Maybe it's Regina's bitch of a mother, as someone has speculated.

I would have thought Jefferson's remark stemmed from his knowledge that Henry was magically poisoned, not from personal intervention and that this was a piece of dialogue meant to amp up foreboding about Henry dying, and his presence was more or less coincidental;

that kissing Henry broke the curse and we know this because it had the same effect that Charming kissing Snow White had (although I have no idea what the radiating effect did in Fairy Tale Land);

that Rumplestiltskin has sacrificed true love (albeit his was in a bottle) to cast his own curse on Storybrooke and that's why the clock's stopped again;

that the Queen is smirking because she believes either she has Belle as her ace in the hole or that she believes she'll have magic again (and can fight back) or both;

that Pinocchio is dead;

that Ruby and Granny are now werewolves;

What makes you think Pinocchio is dead? At worst, he's wood but a spell would make him a real boy (man) again.

 

[Sindatur]

Nah, I don't think August turned wooden because of the curse being broken, or lack of magic. He lied (The fairy warned him against lying) and he didn't raise/look out for Emma. If he hadn't broken those rules, he wouldn't have turned to wood

 

[Enterprise is Great]

'Once Upon a Time' unveils two new princesses?

One will be a "spoiled rich girl" called Anastasia, while the other is described as "a cool badass Asian chick" named Magnolia.

It has also been suggested that Magnolia "is an accomplished fighter and rider" who could be a "bit magical".

I'm guessing Sleeping Beauty (makes sense since we've seen Maleficent already) and Mulan.

 

[nvek86]

They are taking a lot from the Disney versions of the fairy tales and there Sleeping Beauty is called Aurora, so is there a famous Russian fairy tale Anastasia could be from (although the Disney film did use Tchaikovsky's music)?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Emilie de Ravin Promoted to Series Regular for Season 2

 

[RJDiogenes]

That's good news.

 

[SAndrews10]

I hear a lot of Season 2 is going to focus on another camp of fairytale characters that lived on the other side of Storybrooke. Both sides are going to have to come together and find a way to live together or die alone. Lol.

 

[sojourner]

^Startrekwatcher, is that you?

 

[stj]

Regina's curse is broken, but Rumplestiltskin was put his own curse on. The Blue Fairy's good works are not going to survive.
I suppose that Pinocchio could now be an animated wooden man-size puppet, but I don't think they're going to pay Eion Bailey to turn in a wooden
performance. He won't even be eye candy. They haven't spelled it out, but Rumplestiltskin's curse will leave him with all the power,
and everybody else desperate to make a deal: In this case, Gepetto, to bring dead compressed cellulose back to life.

 

[nvek86]

I think Rumpelstiltskin's new "curse" is just that new magic is now possible in Story Brooke, so while he's got the most power, the Blue Fairy probably also has some as well as Regina (hence her smiling at the end of the finale).

 

[stj]

^^^You might have something, I was mostly thinking Regina thought she had Belle.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Jaime Chung cast as Mulan

The character is expected to have a recurring role in the ABC hit’s eagerly awaited second season.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Once Upon a Time Has Cast Sarah Bolger as Sleeping Beauty

TVLine has learned exclusively that Bolger’s recurring character, Princess Aurora, will be introduced during the sophomore run of Once, which was last season’s highest-rated freshman drama.

 

[JD]

I'm very interested to see OUAT take on these characters. I wonder if their version of Mulan (I thought she had a different name in the one of the earlier articles?) is connected to the Asian looking door in The Hat.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Couldn't Fairyland itself have an "Asia" somewhere within its geographic boundaries?

Sarah Bolger could be Ginnifer Goodwin's long lost sister. Hmm...

 

[JD]

I don't see why it couldn't. I'm just curious if we're ever going to get to see what's on the other side of the doors.
Has Little Mermaid come up at all in the discussions of future characters? I want to say it has, but I can't remember for sure.