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I LOVED this episode!!! Everybody has already listed all of my favorite parts except for the conversation Regina and Emma had in the jungle. Regina knowing Tinkerbell wouldn’t help them if she saw her, and being willing to let everyone go on without her if it would save Henry.
“Operation Henry. That’s what I’m calling it in my head”
FEELS! Literally brought tears to my eyes. Regina is truly changing, and I’m so excited for her arc this season. And I don’t think I’ve ever said that. I’m really rooting for her to find love and happiness this season.
[adrotate group="5"]Keeper of the Cheshire Cat’s smile, Baelfire’s sword, Snow’s backpack, Robin Hood’s bow, Ariel’s purse, Ariel’s smile, Henry’s heart, Belle’s shoe collection
I loved that episode. I guess most of my favorite moment have already been mentioned before.
But I would say the seeing the fairies homeworld, Regina ripping out her own heart and showing it to Tinkerbell, the Wilhelm Tell reference by Pan, etc.“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”
— from the Neverending Story by Michael EndeLeast fave (and not just of this episode): Mulan just nearly confessing her love to Aurora, Aurora being pregnant
No, no and no. You want to be friends to the LGBTQ community then be serious about it and not this. Oh, nice dear writers, producers that you noticed that fans, and not just gay ones saw, that there was a moment in season 2 between these two kinda yelling true love (it was so not subtle, not that scene, but there had been moments before one could have read subtle hints of something beginning between them). For a second I was actually thinking, yeah, this show can still surprise me in a positive way, they went there… for a very brief second and that was only due to the great acting of Jamie Chung and Sarah Bolger. I am not just heartbroken for Mulan now, I am annoyed about the writing here. Sorry, Jane Espenson is a brilliant writer, but think she should know better than that. Only hope that she just tried to make the best out of something stupid, out of someone else’s boyish imagination. No, this is not about doing it right for everybody, something no one can do, this is about doing it right at all. And they did it all wrong.
SleepingWarrior was a vague possibility to actually ever happen on screen as long as Phillip was out of the picture, the moment they brought him back that ship was sailed and turned just fan fiction ship, nothing more (nothing less, love a good fan fic). In the logic of the show it must have been a true love’s kiss between Phillip and Aurora to break the curse. Possible that relationships change, but wouldn’t sit right with the logic of the OUaT universe in this case. I can think of scenarios where things still could work out, but at least one wouldn’t be true to the love logic of OUaT set up so far, the other option is one even somewhat progressive ABC very sure would not do, which leaves a third option only to make this somewhat right for OUaT and for LGBTQ fans of the show. It does look like there is the possibility of more than one true love in a life time, so far though maybe only when a the other died, but that can be still adapted here, and Mulan’s feeling for Aurora become sisterly love and Mulan meets someone else, maybe a certain wolf lady in Storybrooke… For many it might be enough to pair Mulan up with Robin Hood (not convinced he is Regina’s 2nd true love) or some other guy, but that wouldn’t change the mess they just created. Trust me, I would be all for a bi character, but in this case it would be wrong.
Sorry for the lengthy rant, but I am very, very disappointed in the show and the showrunners at the moment. This very much killed the whole episode for me, despite that there was some good in the episode.
But one more least fave moment: Neal using a kid to get to Neverland. Yes, he is desperate, okay, and I had all trust that Mulan would keep the boy safe, but still. Unless this was to show that Neal is getting more and more reckless like his father for the family. On the path to his dark side?
But there was good in the episode, and let’s end with the good:
The acting of Jamie Chung and Sarah Bolger. You broke my heart, and that is not an easy thing to do for any kind of fiction, book, TV show, whatever.
Rose McIver’s acting. Remember an 11-year old girl impressing with some good acting in an episode of Xena. Rose McIver played Xena (well Xena being in her body). Impressed again here as Tinker Bell.
Regina – Tinker Bell scene. Great acting. And some insightful Regina, a moment of clarity. Not so sure though if that fits to Regina’s story arc. Or let’s say, it would have been close to perfect, just that they did some wonky stuff with her in the past season. Well, maybe simply forget about some of the wonky Storybrooke stuff. This was better.
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Loved:
Regina and Robin Hood being true love!!! (Whose to say Daniel and Marian were their respective true love…I still say you can only have one! Thus Robin and Regina)
Regina and Tink’s friendship slowly starting to return. (slowly but surely)
Hook and Tink’s look they gave one another.
Little Roland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dislike:
Neal risking Roland’s life!!!
Henry saying he doesn’t like apples. I understand you were poisoned with an apple turnover, but come on that was a complete diss to Mama Regal!!! You don’t just come from a side of Charming…you come from a side of Mills and soon Hood!
Gonna post this pic because I love it so much!!!!!
"If you go as far as you can see...you will then see enough to go even further." - Finn Balor
Dislike: Henry saying he doesn’t like apples. I understand you were poisoned with an apple turnover, but come on that was a complete diss to Mama Regal!!! You don’t just come from a side of Charming…you come from a side of Mills and soon Hood! Gonna post this pic because I love it so much!!!!!
While I actually liked this line for the fun of the recurring theme (like the little girl bringing a pear instead of an apple to Mary Margaret in the pilot) I also had a thought similar to this complaint. After all, despite his experience with the poisoned turnover, Henry probably grew up eating apple turnovers, pies, cobblers and other dishes baked by Regina. If he ate them before, it seems unlikely that one bad experience would permanently change his taste. On the other hand, maybe he never liked apples to begin with and Regina could never get him to eat any of her apple concoctions. Now I’m wondering if we’ll see a flashback of Regina trying unsuccessfully to feed applesauce to a finicky baby Henry! That could be a cute scene with the applesauce winding up all over Regina instead of in Henry.
Least fave (and not just of this episode): Mulan just nearly confessing her love to Aurora, Aurora being pregnant
No, no and no. You want to be friends to the LGBTQ community then be serious about it and not this.
On tumblr, there has been much rejoicing that SleepingWarrior become canon. On the OtherSideOfTheMirror podcast, which is hosted by a lesbian couple, they didn’t like it at all and thought it was a poorly executed trope.
I can see both sides of the argument, but at the end of the day, I doubt that Mulan is gonna be their one and only gay character, and I also wonder if they might continue her story in the future, so I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt right now. This may have just been setting the stage for a future story arc for her, and it may have also been their way of introducing LGBTQ characters into the show, and soon we’ll see more.
TV shows take time to tell a story, they take weeks, months, sometimes years to complete a story arc, so I like to keep an open mind about what they’re potentially setting up for the future, as opposed to assuming that what we’ve already seen is the complete sum of what they intend to do with any given plot point and get annoyed if I don’t consider it to be a satisfying conclusion, because there’s every chance that it’s not actually a conclusion at all.
Aurora and Philip have already been proven to be true love so it’s unlikely they would just move Philip out of the way to make way for Mulan. I think Mulan will meet Shang, but that Shang will be a woman. Mulan fancied Aurora and had a crush on her but it was never really love because Aurora was completely oblivious to how Mulan felt about her meaning Aurora never loved Mulan back. She viewed Mulan as a great friend and nothing more.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of FelixI think this moment opened the doorway, it said “yes we are going to have LBGTQ couples on our show–this is just a small preview of what we may bring you.” I doubt it will be SleepingWarrior but I suspect we’ll see a fully fleshed out LBGTQ couple either this part of the season or next.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Not my favorite episode–I’m mixed on the idea of Robin and Regina. And I’m a little tired of Regina and Rumple centric episodes.
That said, I enjoyed Tinkerbelle. I liked that they didn’t make her a jealous pixie–I was afraid of that. Instead, they made her a helpful fairy that just wanted to help Regina out.
I enjoyed seeing everyone convince Tinkerbelle to join the group, and I especially loved the part where Snow White said that she believed in her.
The main things that I loved–
1). Regina was not unbearable at all like in season 2.
2). Less Rumple. I’m liking the focus on some of the other characters.
3). Seeing more Henry and Pan bonding.
4). I enjoyed some of the snowing moments.
5). JMO and Lana Parrilla and Rose Mclver and Ginnifer Goodwin particularly shined in this episode.
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