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It’s apparently national donut day, and I had to get this in honor of our ship –
Also, I was in a bittersweet mood this afternoon and watched the 322 scene a few times. I kinda really love it, and I refuse to let those punks take away the one final pretty we got. So I wrote a thing, “The best two minutes of 321 & 22,” and thought I’d share here.
I feel like, in the context of the mess that was the finale, the SwanFire scene got lost beyond, “Oh hey! There was a SF scene!” For some reason today I am all about that scene, so I want to list all of the reasons I adore it – and hate that it got overshadowed by so much disappointment. This scene was a present, and although it will always be bittersweet, I refuse not to love it. These aren’t in order, I kind of jumped back and forth through the scene. But there are SO MANY things to love I kept finding more. 🙂
1) Um, they’re cute.
2) The bug in the background 🙂 It’s just the one shot, it’s not in focus, but I freakin’ adore that someone thought to haul it onto the set to include in that shot.
3) It’s so “them.” It’s not typical, it’s not normal. As shippers, how many of us have had headcanon about “How ’bout that drink?” and figured it to be a beer or
similar. But SF are anything but typical, and leave it to them to surprise. A couple of cups of coffee – or cocoa? – trump a typical “first date in a bar” any day.
4) Someone upthread pointed out the blue of the lights is so similar to the blue of her mobile. It is such an intrinsic tie; when you watch the mobile spin in 3×14, those charms kick out just as the swings do on the swing ride. That’s the poetic symmatry that SF brought to Once, and the poetic piece of the show that they killed when they decided to remove Neal Cassidy from the canvas.
5) “It was pretty great once.” Yeah, Once. It was.
6) Neal’s proud smile as he flipped those lights on. SO proud, and so adorable.
7) Emma looks so concerned as he picks that lock – so skeptical, so hesitant to walk through that gate. It’s funny, for a girl who stole a car with minimal hesitation, she’s very uncertain about the whole situation. It doesn’t take too long for his confidence to win her over, though, as she follows him through and watches him flip the breaker – though she still takes a deep breath before she follows him onto the ride platform.
8) The swings are called the Wave Swinger, with Crazy Beach Party in the background. “Is it near a beach?” Somebody at Once still gets it.
9) I love that he raises the bar for her so she can sit down. It’s adorably chivalrous and very kind for a first date… akin to pulling out a chair, perhaps. (Though something tells me he would still have done it now, because, well, that’s just so them.)
10) “… or some place with, you know, chairs…” Ah, sarcastic Emma, where have you gone?
11) I actually really liked the initial shot, with Emma looking through the bars. Bittersweet, of course, but again, someone was clearly being cognisant of their history when they wrote the scene.
12) “My story… that’s an interesting choice of words.” Ha, ha. Very funny.
13) “…I left a screwed up situation and it kinda screwed me up.” Something about this phrasiology… just love it.
14) I really love how she is watching him, studying, just pondering as he talks about his father. Kindred spirit? Yeah.
15) I also really love how she just sits and listens to him. Emma doesn’t sit and listen to much. But here, in this beautiful, quiet, vulnerable moment, she just sits and listens to him.
16) And that very last look? Yeah. Something tells me that was it, from there on out, the two were inseparable.
17) “It’s worth it, I promise.” Yeah, it is. It is.
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I wish I could disagree with that blog post. I really wish I did. I DO still ship them, but I still ship them with that caveat that Emma needs to wake up and really she effed up big time. (Or to make 3B Emma’s nightmare, I still think that’s the absolute best chance the show has to redeem itself. They won’t do that, of course, but in my crazy headcanon I’m rolling with it.) So yeah. There are a few quibbles I have, but that blog post is pretty much spot-on.
With regard to MRJ’s new project, YAYYYYY!!! That will be wonderful things to watch with my SF friends 🙂
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...
Man, I haven’t heard that song in YEARS… since one of my very first fandoms. Even without listening again, I recall that it’s gorgeous!!
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...
I think it was probably supposed to be Emma seeing her parents fall in love. I dunno. There was some good stuff amongst that episode, just hard to dig it out from amongst the crap.
Heard this song this morning on the way to work. Actually, I’ve heard it a few times lately but this was the first time I’ve LISTENED to it and it got me right in the feels. It’s a beautiful duet ballad, sung by beautiful singers… Talk about coulda, woulda, shoulda – thinking of that quote from last year, about two people who love each other getting past the hurt – this is to a tee what the SF story should have been.
I considered bolding my favorite parts but it would have been almost the whole song…
Heart Shaped Wreckage (Hit List, from Smash)
I’m not scared to tell the truth
I’ve been to hell and back, and I went with you
Remind me what we were before
When we said you are mine and I am yoursI don’t know much, but I know myself
And I don’t want to love anybody else
So let’s break the spell and lift the curse
Remember when we fell for each other head firstLook at this heart shaped wreckage
What have we done?
We’ve got scars from battles nobody won
We can start over, better
Both of us know if we just let the broken pieces
Let the broken pieces goI can’t find you in the dark
Will we get back to who we are?
And I can’t fix this on my own
Our love is still the best thing I’ve ever knownLook at this heart shaped wreckage
What have we done?
We’ve got scars from battles nobody won
We can start over, better
Both of us know if we just let the broken pieces
Let the broken pieces goLet the broken pieces go
Just hold on to each other tonight, ohLook at this heart shaped wreckage
What have we done?
We’ve got scars from battles nobody won
We can start over, better
Both of us know if we just let the broken pieces
Let the broken pieces
Let the broken pieces
Let the broken pieces go…Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...
OMG thatttttt^^^
I’m in a kick puppies kinda mood today. It ain’t pretty.
(A/N – no puppies were hurt in the making of this hissy fit.)
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Without question, to me the kissing is throwing up of a wall and indulging in something else to bury the hurt. We have precedent for Emma being… not discerning… regarding her sexual partners in the decade between Neal and Storybrooke, and they set up in 3×05 that it’s something to run to when life gets too “real” for her. So, yeah, I can see that – but I still hate it, for Emma.
And I agree wholeheartedly that in order for CS to work and stay true-to-character, Neal had to be dead. The issue I think I have is so much is NOT true to character, why get hung up on that one item? I mean everything else is OOC, why not just “modify” her love for Neal so that he doesn’t have to be dead for her to move on? I would have hated it, of course, but I would have hated it in an eye-rolling and slightly nauseated way, not in a “this show crushed my soul” kinda way, lol.
Also, I wrote that meta that RG mentioned earlier, except, I’m not sure it’s really a meta at all, more like a bit of delusional extended metaphor. It kinda-sorta has profanity in it so I will just link –
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I think that’s very true, and I’ve even seen some non-SF fans say something to that effect. The long-term story here was clear. And perhaps what’s so maddening about all of this is that they could have told the current story, as-is, without him being dead. Literally changed almost nothing about 316-322. Neal gave Emma his word at the end of 3A that if she did not show for lunch, he’d back off. They could have done wonders for his character by having him do that – keep his word, and allow it to be shown in a non-pathetic way his love for her as they crossed paths in dealing with Henry or whatever – that he was sad but he screwed it up and her happiness was the most important thing – while she took her trip to Vegas w Hook. Let him be a Dad to Henry, which is an incredibly important thing for the overall message of the show (and even more angering to me than anything else.) Let that side of the triangle play out for all of S4 if they wanted; the last small handful of episodes could pull it back around to SF. Wrap it up quickly if 4 is the end or drag out forgiveness & reconciliation into 5 if necessary.
But no. We must instead have dead, because, Reasons.
The irony is I still don’t think this will play out to be Emma’s happy ending… going out on a limb and asserting they’re not going to let their modern-day princess have freakin’ Captain Hook as her happy ending (though I am settling in to roll with it for quite a while.) So whether we get post-mortem Neal or Team Single Mom or some other Fairy Tale Prince story, I dunno why Neal had to be dead for it. But whatevs. Not my show.
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Funny. Woke up in the middle of the night contemplating a SF-as-Home meta and find those gifsets. We’re all of the same wavelength today, I see.
Yeah. I just miss it.
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