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Snow White: You found me!
Prince Charming: Did you ever doubt I would?
Snow White: Truthfully? The glass coffin gave me pause…[adrotate group="5"]I can only applaud the efforts of anyone who dares to take on this messy timeline because I am simply confused by most of it.
Emma: Is it possible for someone to have the darkness, but use it for good, use it to protect people?
Merlin: Emma, don’t let those thoughts tempt you.
Emma: But is it true?
Merlin: Someday perhaps there will be a person who’s worthy to hold that much power and not let it burn through to darken their soul. But if we can wipe out the darkness, we’ll never have to ask that much of anyone. (cough RUMPLE cough)
– 5.7 NimueRuby to Whale: You’re Frankenstein. And I’m the Werewolf. I ate my boyfriend. Regina thought she was punishing us by erasing who were, but I think she underestimated how much crap we wanted to forget.
(In the Enchanted Forest, Rumpelstiltskin holds up a vial of the bottled ‘true love’.)
Rumpelstiltskin: Behold. The most powerful magic of all…
Prince Charming: True love.
Rumpelstiltskin: Ah! Careful. This is all I have left of it.
Prince Charming: What do you know of true love?
Rumpelstiltskin: Well, not so much as you, perhaps, but not so little as you might think.
Prince Charming: You? You loved someone?
Rumpelstiltskin: It was a brief flicker of light amidst an ocean of darkness.
Prince Charming: What happened?
Rumpelstiltskin: She died. That’s the thing about true love, dearie. It can slip through your fingers. It’s the most powerful magic in the world. The only magic powerful enough to break any curse. It must be protected at all costs.
Prince Charming: I don’t understand. What exactly is it you want me to do?
Rumpelstiltskin: I want you to help me protect it by putting it in a safe place for me. (Rumpelstiltskin produces an egg shaped container, which he puts the vial in.)
Prince Charming: And where is that?
Rumpelstiltskin: Inside the belly of a beast, of course. (Rumpelstiltskin shuts the egg container and tosses it to Prince Charming.)
Prince Charming: Why hide it?
Rumpelstiltskin: Let’s just say, I’m saving it for a rainy day.(Emma and Regina enter Mr. Gold’s Pawn Shop.)
Mr. Gold: Do my eyes deceive me, or is that the look of a believer?
Emma: We need your help.
Mr. Gold: Indeed, you do. It seems quite the tragic ailment has befallen our young friend. I told you, magic comes with a price.
Regina: Henry shouldn’t have to pay it.
Mr. Gold: No, you should, but alas, we are where we are.
Emma: Can you help us?
Mr. Gold: Of course. True love, Miss Swan… The only magic powerful enough to transcend realms and break any curse. Luckily for you, I happen to have bottled some.
Regina: You did?
Mr. Gold: Oh, yes. From strands of your parents’ hair, I made the most powerful potion in all the realm. So powerful, that when I created the dark curse, I placed a single drop on the parchment. Just a little safety valve.
Emma: That’s why I’m the savior. That’s why I can break the curse.
Mr. Gold: Now you’re getting it.
Emma: I don’t care about breaking the curse. All I care about is saving Henry.
Mr. Gold: Which is why it’s your lucky day. I didn’t use all the potion. I saved some… for a rainy day.
Emma: Well, it’s storming like a *****. Where is it?Rumpelstiltskin: LOVE the dress.
Cora: Well, brides have to be snow white.
Rumpelstiltskin: When you see the future, there is irony everywhere.
🙂read Jiminy’s Journal S5 ending…it helps so much!
@Jiminy – Do you have a link for that? I would love to check it out!
Here you go!
Rumpelstiltskin: This curse isn’t going to be easy. Vengeance never is, dearie. You have to ask yourself a simple question: How far are you willing to go?
Queen: As far as it takes.
Rumpelstiltskin: Then please stop wastin’ everyone’s time and just do it. You know what ya love. Now go kill it.1) What was your favorite all time episode of OUAT?
SKIN DEEP!
2) What was your least favorite all time episode of OUAT?
It’s much harder to pick the very worst of OUAT so I’ll name a few that I know were bad/filler.
3.2 Lost Girl – 3.14 The Tower – 4.11 Heroes and Villains – 4.19 Lily – 5.6 The Bear and the Bow – 5.18 Ruby Slippers – 5.19 Sisters – 6.1 The Savior – 6.19 The Black Fairy – 7.19 Flower Child (honestly looking down the list of S7 episodes it’s hard for me to remember which were the weakest so I went with the recent one I think was badly done).
3) What was your favorite and least favorite season of OUAT?
S1 is #1
The worst is harder again. So much of S4-S7 was so very messy and some of my least favorite things ever happened in S3 and S4. It’s a hard choice but I think I’ll give the dishonorable nod to S5 for ruining both The Dark One mythology and Camelot (read Jiminy’s Journal S5 ending…it helps so much!).
4) Who was your favorite and least favorite MAJOR (meaning, regular cast member) character?
RUMPLE!!!!!! is my favorite.
Least favorite – you know even though I’ve had problems with Regina and Hook’s stories over the years I just had the thought looking back that Zelena actually has added the least to the narrative of all the mains and she in many ways feels tacked on to most of the stories she appears in. Plus she killed Baelfire!
5) Who was your favorite and least favorite MINOR (meaning only made brief appearances, either a single episode or more but never a regular cast member)
Hmmm another tough one. I love the so called minor characters better in some ways then a few of the main ones. I’d pick Baelfire for my #1 if he’s eligible with Granny as my backup.
Least favorite? Lily was pretty pointless in the end. But then again Ursula was a nothing character too. Maybe I’ll go with her.6) What do you think OUAT’s biggest success story was? And what was their biggest mistake?
OUAT has had a few successful twists over the years like Ruby/wolf, Malcolm/Pan, but I think my favorite story in Once was the early story-arc of family (Especially the Stiltskin clan Pan/Rumple/Belle/Baelfire/Emma/Henry) where everyone was related to everyone in some way and all the stories we’d seen so far up through 3a fit together quite nicely. It was really sad that they dropped all of that later in the series.
The biggest mistake is clear and easy – killing Baelfire shifted the entire focus of the series from family to relationSHIPS. There were plenty of others blunders to consider – not making the Dark One myth ancient enough – that egg – almost everything to do with The Author’s Pen – Emma as The Dark One – The Black Fairy – Camelot/Merlin – Maid Marian – Grumpy and Nova being dropped – let’s not forget how baby Robyn was conceived – Hook and Emma being too quickly classed as heroes while Rumple kept getting reset for reasons – everything to do with Rumbelle’s relationship from about 4a until S7 when they started frantically patching for the ending they wanted!
7) Would you recommend OUAT to someone?
I have in the past, but I’d hesitate now. The first few seasons were so good, especially the first! But it did get terribly messy and confusing and frustrating later.
8) What is the legacy of OUAT?
I hope the legacy of Once will be that first season and how well plotted it and all the characters in it were. But I fear the legacy may end up being the confusing plots, lack of real character development that stuck around for more than one episode, and (of course) the ships.
9) Grade the entire series!
S1 is an A+ I’d change almost nothing in it.
But if I have to factor in 4-7 that will bring it down to maybe a C?
