I’m here!! Had to get my son to bed and ready for his school state standardized testing tomorrow right after the episode!
I’m so glad that we have OUaT episodes to talk about again!
First, I LOVED the Wicked is Coming Special (although I don’t know why they called it that – there were about ten hot seconds of WWW). I said in the chat that it was actually really nice to NOT deal with any shipping for a bit and just be reminded of why I fell in love with show in the first place. I got teary eyed and cried at about five different places.
With that said – I actually think the special was hard to top for me! I usually have to go back and watch the episode again before I can post detailed thoughts, but I am just so happy to have the show back again that I couldn’t help but to love it!!
The one thing I did not like but I don’t think there is really any way around this is that the whole thing felt incredibly rushed to me. It would have been nice to see more of Emma and Henry’s life in NYC, more of the history of how Emma and monkey-man ended up together, etc. Also, Emma getting her memories back was way to fast for me. It seems like they kept hyping up how Hook was going to have to work so hard to get her to believe him enough to trust him and it just seemed like it happened really fast. But, again, I think this was the episode they had to use to get everything set up to tell the story so they didn’t have much choice.
Can I just say how much I LOVE Colin. I thought he did such a great job in this episode because he played things very subtly. I know the SF folks are going on about how he has decided to become a villain again. Really? Could you NOT tell what was going on. The poor guy lands in a field in the EF with all these people who he has gotten to know because of EMMA but who are NOT his family. He literally has NO ties to anyone there except the people who are going to remind him of the woman he is desparately in love with and believes he will never see again – after he was finally able to let go of the woman he loved who died 300 years ago!!! He was in pain missing the woman he loved for 300 YEARS, now he realizes that he has lost his TRUE LOVE for what he believes is forever. Just like Emma does, he has thrown his walls back up and is shutting everyone out all over again. He knows that he is going to think of her everyday for the rest of his life and he is trying to find the way to survive that misery – which for him is to escape back to his ship and being “the pirate” again. Being the hero DID work for him, he just thinks it’s going to be too painful to survive continuing to live that way because he only knows how to do it with Emma.
Then you have the poor guy get to NYC and attempts TLK thinking it might work and when it doesn’t he assumes that mean that Emma doesn’t love him. He doesn’t KNOW the history of TLK and memory loss. So know the poor man is dealing with the love of his life right in front of him, believing she doesn’t love him. When she gets her memories back he discovers that she has been seriously dating someone else and she doesn’t appear to even care about him. But why would she? He has been thinking about her every day for a year and she has been seriously dating another guy – seriously enough to tell the guy that she loves him. She has JUST gotten her memories back and is not yet used to “being both” yet. It’s gonna take her some time to figure out what’s going on. And now Emma’s walls are going to go flying back up again. But poor Killian, the look on his face when he recognized that she was dating someone and suggested that maybe she loved someone in her real life. And the look on his face in her apartment when she is talking about Walsh.
So it will be interesting to see what happens now. They are obviously trying to make you wonder if Hook is up to something and they are trying to make you wonder if Neal is up to something.
I loved the Regina and Snow moment – that was very sweet. And my favorite line of the episode? Hook to Henry: “Why are YOU dressed like THAT?”
I am definately going to have to stay out of the chat though. It was really fun during the Wicked is Coming special. And I can honestly say that 99% of the people in the chat are very kind and respectful but there is one particular person who is so incredibly immature, rude, and purposely disrespectful it is completely ridiculous. I’m sorry but I am way too old to deal with that. It has gone on way too long and that person should be kicked out. Sitting in a chat and announcing that you aren’t getting any CS vibes over and over but are getting SF feels out the wazoo when you know there are CS people in the chat is attempting to purposely annoy CS folks to the point that they will stay out of the chat. And if moderators aren’t able to tell that that isn’t any different than a CS person announcing in the chat “I don’t see how anyone could possibly see ANY SF in this episode, it’s clearly all CS” I’m stunned, it’s just a matter of wording. To CS folks, we feel like we are being told we are stupid, that we are being trolled and purposely trying to be annoyed and riled up so we will stay away from the chat. And continually bashing someone else’s ship and character and then following it up with “It’s just a theory, that’s what we do here” is like insulting someone and then saying “oh, but nothing personal.” I normally do not get bothered by things like this but this is completely ridiculous. When you have a large group of very active participants on this site who feel that they can’t participate in the chat because of ONE person that is a problem. I was really hopeful during the special tonight, then that person ruined it for me once again! I will now stop ranting.