Once upon a Time 4.14
Mar. 10th, 2015 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakHm, not sure about this one.
I mean, I'm all for Snow getting a guilt and redemption arc of her own, but if this is going to where I uneasily suspect it's going - that it will turn out Snow via magical plot device X cut off any darkness potential in Emma in the bud (or rather, in the womb) and this somehow caused the death of Maleficent's kid, it will be a major retcon of Snow, who hitherto has been characterised as someone believing in choices. Not to mention that it also sounds suspiciously like how the lamest of all X-Men movies, X3, presented the Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix origin tale (it's different in the comics), which in turn makes me fear nothing good for Emma's potential for darkness exploration. If she goes Dark Phoenix a la as X3 in this arc (starring Snow as Charles Xavier, Hook as Scott and Regina as Wolverine?), it really will something I don't want to see. (Even the good cause of a potential on screen Emma/Regina kiss would not make up for this.)
This being said, of course I like that Snow goes to Regina with her secret in the end. And if it turns out there is another reason than the one I suspect as to why Snow is somehow repsonsible for Maleficent losing her baby, I'm all for it, because I kept wondering how Snow and David could have wronged Maleficent more than Regina (keeping her under the library imprisoned for 28 years) and Rumplestilskin (setting her up, via David, with the golden egg of magic returning deviceness in the stomach and therefore also for death by Emma). But the death/loss of a child would do it, and it's a theme of obvious resonance and mirroring for both Snow and Regina.
Regina undercover: okay, that's a better way for the show to have its cake and eat it (i.e. showing Regina in Evil Queen mode without negating her seaons of growth and change) than the ultimately comedi-fied results of the breaking mirror in the Frozen arc. Also I really liked her apologizing to Gepetto, who isn't one of the few people she cares about - this is the precisely the type of detail that proves Regina has changed and is starting to show empathy for others.
What else? When Rumple and the audience see or think they see Belle and Will moving in for a kiss my first though was "but what about Ana?" and my second thought was "okay, classing misunderstanding plot device", because Rumple conveniently sees this through a half obscured window. And if the show wanted to do Belle/Will, it would have given them more than one scene in the previous episodes where she finds him passed out in her library, clutching a drawing of Ana as the Red Queen. So I bet you 10 to 1 that we'll later see this scene from Belle's pov and it turns out Will asked for research on how to get back to Wonderland and she found something, hence the beaming at each other.
I mean, I'm all for Snow getting a guilt and redemption arc of her own, but if this is going to where I uneasily suspect it's going - that it will turn out Snow via magical plot device X cut off any darkness potential in Emma in the bud (or rather, in the womb) and this somehow caused the death of Maleficent's kid, it will be a major retcon of Snow, who hitherto has been characterised as someone believing in choices. Not to mention that it also sounds suspiciously like how the lamest of all X-Men movies, X3, presented the Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix origin tale (it's different in the comics), which in turn makes me fear nothing good for Emma's potential for darkness exploration. If she goes Dark Phoenix a la as X3 in this arc (starring Snow as Charles Xavier, Hook as Scott and Regina as Wolverine?), it really will something I don't want to see. (Even the good cause of a potential on screen Emma/Regina kiss would not make up for this.)
This being said, of course I like that Snow goes to Regina with her secret in the end. And if it turns out there is another reason than the one I suspect as to why Snow is somehow repsonsible for Maleficent losing her baby, I'm all for it, because I kept wondering how Snow and David could have wronged Maleficent more than Regina (keeping her under the library imprisoned for 28 years) and Rumplestilskin (setting her up, via David, with the golden egg of magic returning deviceness in the stomach and therefore also for death by Emma). But the death/loss of a child would do it, and it's a theme of obvious resonance and mirroring for both Snow and Regina.
Regina undercover: okay, that's a better way for the show to have its cake and eat it (i.e. showing Regina in Evil Queen mode without negating her seaons of growth and change) than the ultimately comedi-fied results of the breaking mirror in the Frozen arc. Also I really liked her apologizing to Gepetto, who isn't one of the few people she cares about - this is the precisely the type of detail that proves Regina has changed and is starting to show empathy for others.
What else? When Rumple and the audience see or think they see Belle and Will moving in for a kiss my first though was "but what about Ana?" and my second thought was "okay, classing misunderstanding plot device", because Rumple conveniently sees this through a half obscured window. And if the show wanted to do Belle/Will, it would have given them more than one scene in the previous episodes where she finds him passed out in her library, clutching a drawing of Ana as the Red Queen. So I bet you 10 to 1 that we'll later see this scene from Belle's pov and it turns out Will asked for research on how to get back to Wonderland and she found something, hence the beaming at each other.
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Date: 2015-03-10 12:27 pm (UTC)Also, I'm so excited to see Maleficent/Kristin Bauer van Straten being back. And the lost baby backstory is really interesting. I just wish we could have gotten some Aurora (& Philip & Mulan) too and some backstory/explanation on Maleficent's feud with Aurora/Aurora's mother.
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Date: 2015-03-10 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-10 08:00 pm (UTC)