Reply To: 3×03 “Quite a Common Fairy” FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE MOMENTS

Favorites:

Blue and “Green”, and how Sneaky Fairy lives, with Blue doing what she does the way she does it!

Tink in general, she was perfect!

Roast Swan

Reveal of Regina’s pixie-dust love connection– we so called that! ReHooooooo!  Question though, has fate changed from what it would have been at that time? Has Regina become such a different person that she can no longer be true soul-mates with Robin, or was it the case that had she gone in there they would not yet be right, and will be down the road?  So many ways they could write that.

Snow revealing she has not always been a pampered princess.  (I wonder why she doesn’t just tell Emma about her own sad experiences, but then I guess it would smack of the whole “I had it worse, uhill both ways” thing, because while she did have loving parents for awhile, she then ended up with someone actively trying to kill her and having murdered those loving parents).

Least Favorites:

Charming not telling Snow

Neal’s plan to get to NL

So about Neal’s plan, I agree with what RG and Phee say here. This tarnished what could have been a shining moment for him, but I agree it is setting him up to be able to understand his father’s desperation better.  As RG said, we have seen many characters do questionable things, some outright bad acts and more gray situations like Snow using the candle to kill Cora or Charming shooting a cannon at the Mermaids, being willing to threaten to  fillet until Snow chided him, and in my opinion, letting Regina go free and risking the entire town to save her.

We have to remember Mulan searched with Emma and Snow for a portal and knew that there really were not an abundance of ways to travel between realms.  Neal did come up with the plan quickly, did remind Robin of the debt, but Mulan and the others also went along, plus Mulan did have her magic sword. There were three adults.  Neal knew very well what the Shadow was like, and I thought you had to go willingly with the Shadow, which was how Bae made a deal with it to take just him, not the Darling boys as a child.  If the Shadow were unstoppable, I do not think Neal would have risked Roland but he was fairly sure they would be able to stop it.  I also noted that Neal was worried enough about Roland being safe that he almost missed catching the Shadow.   Mulan yells at him to  go and then he jumps OUT of the window to get to it.   Still not my favorite moment, but it did highlight Robin’s bravery, though why they would have the boy sleep under the same window seems like more than infuriating optimism but conviction in goodness like Belle, (maybe that is why he’d fall for Regina, despite her reputation and history?)