After seeing the ep a second time I think I can respect or accept the way they did this Mirrorland. At first I also thought it seemed too easy, like they only touched the surface of what they could have done with that place ’pun intended’. But I think it had its cool elements. And as it is with so many things on this show, they DOO only want to stay on the surface with it and play around for an hour before they move on….. I guess they like skating.
But I still think they should have played up the “I will be you mirror” part a lot more they could have done that without changing the episode much. They should have really had Emma and Regina speak some truths about each other.
Like, I would have loved for Regina to really go in on this thing with Emma and her death visions. She is always talking about her imminent death. Instead Regina should have told her something like- Girlfriend, why don’t you fight it? You aint dead yet.. If you are a hero, then you don’t throw in the towel …especially with our son standing right there watching and hearing you. I don’t think Regina would like the fact that Emma practically said her goodbyes to him already, its to early for goodbyes. Emma needs to let Henry see that she will fight this till the end.
Emma should have told Regina that she sees, Regina is still scared that she doesnt deserve happiness, because she doesn’t believe she deserves to be forgiven. And that this is why she cant ever have it.
They could have played this up with the other characters as well, like Henry vs Violet etc.
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I would have liked Mirrorland to look different too. It could actually be fun to hear how everyone imagines Mirrorland to look.
So please if you have any ideas write them down 🙂
Lets play “My Mirrorland”
I imagine it like this: Once Emma wakes up after having been sucked into the mirror, she wakes up in a dark room. There are many shards of glass and broken mirrors on the floor all around. She notices that there are windows all around and lots of mirrors on the walls. A faint light comes in through the windows and outside she sees many flickering small lights in the horizon like little candles being turned on and off. Now a light is turned on in the room next to her and when she walks in, the room is lit and she is in Granny’s diner. She sees Granny standing there, looking in a mirror. She runs to her,, but Granny doesn’t see her and Emma notices, that her own reflection is not in the mirror next to Granny’s reflection. Now Regina comes in and explains that this is because they are not on that side anymore, they are only on the other side of the mirror…in Mirrorland (or whatever the name may be)
(sidenote: Also, this place should be crawling with little black rats, with no eyes, making horrible screetching noises, but that would maybe be too scary for a family show. Of course one of them could be in the kitchen cooking, as a nod to Ratatouille…kidding)…. Now, when Granny finished looking in the mirror, the room would go dark again and it wasn’t Granny’s diner anymore either, but just a room with no furniture only walls, windows, mirrors and pieces of glass on the floor.
Emma and Regina would now discover that there were many more rooms with many mirrors. There would be stairs going up and down to more rooms, but no way out of this “building” or place. They would now, by chance- good luck and plot twist- see a light switch on in one room and when they walk in, they see Henry. He is in his own room at Regina’s house getting ready for his date. Now pretty much the same scene goes down, as it did in the episode, with them banging on the mirror- Evil Queen walking in etc… But in my version they will discover that they can make the sunlight reflect in the little shards of glass laying on the floor and if they position enough of them in the right spot they can “catch” the image from the other side, there bye, when Henry goes away from the mirror, the rooms are still connected (get my point?). So when Henry comes back home, they will still be in that same mirror.
(Side note: Granny would see herself looking good in the mirror and like a young version of herself and that would also be what “the Granny” on this side of the mirror would look like to Emma and Regina. The dwarf (I don’t remember who he is, is it Sneazy?) would look like a hunk.. and Henry, who in this moment was very unsure of himself and scared, would look more scared on this side, then on the other and with lots of zits)
Now the dragon comes and that whole thing goes down, with the fighting, the dragon, the hammer… only Henry doesn’t smash the mirror, but persuades the Evil Queen to stop. He puts the hammer on the floor- takes the heart and gives it to her- says something like “This is your choice. This is how sure I AM, that You wont make the choice that will kill yourself” he then gives her that whole- You will always be alone speech, he gave her in the episode, but he ends with “It doesn’t have to be that way” Evil Queen looks hurt and angry at him, tells him maybe he will always be a scared little boy, but then she stops the dragon just in time and poofs away, taking the dragons heart with her.
Now, I think Henry summons the help of the Storybrookers and Belle,, with her books, helps to figure out the way out of the mirror. And I think the way out of the mirror, should have been Emma and Regina daring to speak aloud some truth about themselves, that they had never revealed to anyone, perhaps even to themselves- Those truths, should be something following what they had both said about each other earlier.. – and as they spoke the truth, their reflections would appear in the mirror (because they would now be able to see what they didn’t see before… get my point?)..and when they then touched the mirror with their hands- Abra Cadabra Wooosh! the camera angle would switch from one side of the mirror (Mirrorland) to the other (right) side.
Other side note: This Mirrorland would not be where Sidney had been. He had been caught on the surface of mirrors and this is the actual “other side of the mirrors”
What do you guys think of my version?? Please do say if you see anything about this that wouldn’t work, or if you have any questions as to how it works. I will see if I have an answer, or maybe there was something I hadn’t thought about.
Looking very uch forward to your replies and ideas for Mirrorland… 🙂