@steliokontos1 wrote:
@Charlie Francis wrote:
Emma was an idiot all episode long. Snow says don’t trust Cora, Emma says “hey guess what, I share a son with your daughter!” Emma is told Ogres hunt by sound, Emma shoots her gun, etc. It got real old real fast. Her attitude towards the people who actually knew what they were talking about made her look like a brat.
Emma doing all that, really showing her short comings just really empowered Snow for me, it had me going kind of nuts like “listen to your mom!” Considering she’s in a land she’s never been and is used to being able to handle herself it’s not unreasonable that there would be some growing pains. For her to finally get that she needs to defer to Snow and why she sent her away in the wardrobe and that scene in the nursery made the episode for me. That, the Charming fight scene where he totally lays out all those knights, plus when Snow go Legolas on that Ogre all really made this episode great for me.
I’m far more forgiving of Emma being an idiot in FTL than I am of her being an idiot in our world.
All her life she’s only had herself to rely on, not taking anyone else’s advice at face value. She just killed a dragon last week, girlfriend thinks she’s invincible right about now. They had to show her being a disobedient punk so they could have the moment with the ogre where she had the reality check that, uh, yeah, maybe mum does know best, considering they’re in her world right now. Emma may have kicked many ogre’s butts in our world, so she was cocky, and needed a good slap to make her realise that she needed an attitude adjustment. I thought they pulled that off really well.
The stuff with Snow and Emma in the nursery was beautifully done and so heartbreaking. A real turning point for their relationship, and for Emma as an individual as well.
@Mike wrote:
I think this plot device of sending Snow and Emma to the remains of the EF is excellent; it’s like sending a dysfunctional family on a 30-day wilderness boot-camp to work out their issues – except there are ogres to speed up the process.
Nice analogy! 😆