@Gaultheria wrote:
– Emma banging her head in frustration
That made me 😆 “Not noooooowwww kid, enoooouuuuugh with the book, I’m sleeeeeeepy.”
@AntBee wrote:
-Potential new ship in Frankenwolf. It’s definitely ironic because this time last season, Dr. Whale was such a horn dog for Ruby, but this episode showed that maybe if would have been himself, they might have actually ended up together.
I’m all about Frankenwolf, their scene at the dock was lovely.
-Rumple was very menacing and very on the edge this episode, as he should be, and Robert Carlyle played it perfectly. Yes, it’s out of character for Rumple to shout out threats to kids, but think of the state of mind that he was in to get to that point and it makes sense.
Exactly. Dude is messed up and strung out and on edge, and I thought it was great. I liked how he was instantly resorting to magic to try and fix her, because that was keeping in character for him. And I loved when it didn’t work, because he doesn’t deserve the easy fix. If he’d taken the time to consider what he should do, and looked at this as an opportunity to change, like Belle’s been begging him to, then Chip wouldn’t have ended up getting smashed. I was really sad to see it happen, because that cup was like a sacred object, but that just made the moment all the more powerful. His threat against the Charmings was said out of fear. He fears he’s already lost Belle, and can’t stand the thought of whatever remote chance he has left being destroyed while he’s away. So while it was a truly horrible thing to say, especially in front of Henry, I can see why he did it. He’s running scared, with no control, and can’t use magic to fix it. He’s WAY out of his comfort zone and doesn’t know how to deal. And Rumple should ALWAYS know how to deal. He’s feeling like EPIC FAIL right now.
-Regina falling for Cora’s words. I knew Regina’s redemption was too good to be true. It doesn’t mean she can’t redeem herself later on, but I think this just showed that she needed to do it for her own sake rather than just trying to get Henry back. If she only wants to get better because of Henry and not because she realizes it’s the right thing to do, she’ll likely relapse again like she did in this episode. The same applies to Rumple. If he only does the right thing because he feels he has to, to keep Belle in his life, he’s likely going to fail.
Yes and yes! I did want to slap her for caving so quickly to mother’s manipulations, but unless and until she realises the real reasons she should be wanting to change, that change will be impossible, and this situation was a perfect illustration of that.
-Greg Mendell. I still don’t think he’s a normal outsider even if his phone points to that. I love that we got two mysteries for the price of one so to speak because not only is Mendell’s identity still unknown, but there’s also the mysterious “her”. It could be an acronym. It could be Dorothy, Alice, Tinkerbell, etc. The possibilities are almost endless.
No way is he some regular guy. They’ve set him up too much to look like one, so he’s gotta end up being someone important. I liked them having the Frankenstein story in this ep, because it led to Henry’s conclusion that anyone, from any world, could get to SB. I think that was a nice little setup for the fact that Greg is from some other, storybook related land. *cough*Oz*cough*
-Globe thingy. One step closer to (crossing my fingers) everyone finding out that Neal is Baelfire.
We’ve seen a few globes in his shop before. Perhaps he was trying to turn one of those into a tool like the magical globe?
-Ruby and Dr. Whale talking about how the Curse was sort of a blessing in disguise. I can see how it can be looked at that way in some instances, but I just don’t want them to get too carried away with further whitewashing of Regina’s misdeeds.
I didn’t really look at it as them downplaying Regina’s deeds. I looked at it as adding to the tragedy of it all. Regina sacrificed her soul to make everyone completely miserable. Turns out, they’re not necessarily completely miserable. So Regina’s evilness was in vain. It doesn’t excuse that she did it, it makes it all the more sad what a wretched witch she became, and it didn’t even get her what she wanted.