Once upon a Time 4.11
Dec. 9th, 2014 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakGo figure.
As I thought, Gerda's letter was about Ingrid and brought the resolution. Which on this show actually worked for, both on its general "make better choices the next time around" principle for villains and because Ingrid's initial trauma was Gerda's reaction to Helga's death. It even gave Gerda something of a mini redemption arc and connected her (and Anna, of course!) to the Gerda of the Snow Queen fairy tale, with, ironically enough, Ingrid herself as Kai with the splinter in her heart that gets removed by love.
Meanwhile, that "everyone sees their worst" curse is a bit lame, or rather, it gets played for comic relief, which is odd after all this build up. I mean, I was totally up for something like the "Angelus behind bars messes with everyone's heads" episode in mid season 4 of Angel! This being said, I was amused that Emma immediately thought of Regina when figuring out she needed someone who could really really REALLY hate people, that Regina in dark side mode still has Snow, not Emma on top of her personal hate list, by the sword duel and the two of them cracking up once the curse was lifted. Though I am somewhat wistful for a Snow-in-Angelus-mode-with-Regina-in-dark-mode instead. But at least we got a brief glimpse of non-comic relief dark side Snow in her sarcastic little speech to Anna.
Flashbacks: actually managed to retcon the Ingrid interlude into Emma's life without making her orphan issues or disbelief/denial during s1 less believable (even before Ingrid removes those memories). On the contrary, Emma getting briefly the ideal adoptive mother and then finding out the woman is seemingly crazy with her talk of magic would just heighten both reactions.
Set up: since the Frozen storyline is now over, I'm curious who the next Disney owned character showing up will be, but it looks like whoever it is, the second half's seasonal opponenet will be Rumplestilskin, because I can't imagine Emma letting him stride off once she finds out just what he did, which is imminent. Which could be great or bad storytelling, depending on the execution. As long as Belle FINALLY is allowed to a) face the truth and b) dump him, I'm up for anything.
As I thought, Gerda's letter was about Ingrid and brought the resolution. Which on this show actually worked for, both on its general "make better choices the next time around" principle for villains and because Ingrid's initial trauma was Gerda's reaction to Helga's death. It even gave Gerda something of a mini redemption arc and connected her (and Anna, of course!) to the Gerda of the Snow Queen fairy tale, with, ironically enough, Ingrid herself as Kai with the splinter in her heart that gets removed by love.
Meanwhile, that "everyone sees their worst" curse is a bit lame, or rather, it gets played for comic relief, which is odd after all this build up. I mean, I was totally up for something like the "Angelus behind bars messes with everyone's heads" episode in mid season 4 of Angel! This being said, I was amused that Emma immediately thought of Regina when figuring out she needed someone who could really really REALLY hate people, that Regina in dark side mode still has Snow, not Emma on top of her personal hate list, by the sword duel and the two of them cracking up once the curse was lifted. Though I am somewhat wistful for a Snow-in-Angelus-mode-with-Regina-in-dark-mode instead. But at least we got a brief glimpse of non-comic relief dark side Snow in her sarcastic little speech to Anna.
Flashbacks: actually managed to retcon the Ingrid interlude into Emma's life without making her orphan issues or disbelief/denial during s1 less believable (even before Ingrid removes those memories). On the contrary, Emma getting briefly the ideal adoptive mother and then finding out the woman is seemingly crazy with her talk of magic would just heighten both reactions.
Set up: since the Frozen storyline is now over, I'm curious who the next Disney owned character showing up will be, but it looks like whoever it is, the second half's seasonal opponenet will be Rumplestilskin, because I can't imagine Emma letting him stride off once she finds out just what he did, which is imminent. Which could be great or bad storytelling, depending on the execution. As long as Belle FINALLY is allowed to a) face the truth and b) dump him, I'm up for anything.
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Date: 2014-12-09 01:14 pm (UTC)hough I am somewhat wistful for a Snow-in-Angelus-mode-with-Regina-in-dark-mode instead. But at least we got a brief glimpse of non-comic relief dark side Snow in her sarcastic little speech to Anna.
Made me intensely long for a scene like this. Snow-in-Angelus mode would have been fantastic