[Gaultheria]

So that Writers Strike looks more and more possible each day:
WGA Strike Authorization Voting Underway

This would not only effect OUAT, but all scripted shows, if the strike happens and isn’t settled fast enough. With Upfronts happening very soon, this would be very bad news for the networks.

Bad for the network, but good for OUAT’s renewal likelihood? Season 2 of Star Trek: TNG dealt with a strike by reworking unused scripts; OUAT must have a few of those.

[Gaultheria]

Well, they probably would’ve used Moe both for flashback and current scenes. In for a penny, in for a pound. He could’ve taken the place of one of those two extras in the cup scene.

Say, was one of those extras the woman who posts behind-the-scenes info to Twitter?

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Y’know it just dawned on me…wasn’t Moe supposed to be in this episode? Looks like we got a cut Belle/Moe scene or a cut Rumbelle/Moe scene.

I think it would’ve been Mary Margaret buying the flowers at Moe’s shop.

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[Gaultheria]

Snow and Charming awoke during the Dark Curse because of the flower that lets true loves find one another. They remembered who they were–as did Rumple–and almost went after Emma. How do you feel about this sudden development? Was it a retcon in your eyes or did it make sense and did you enjoy it?

Anyone else wonder why it took 10 years for that flower to appear in SB, though?

How about if that same day happened 10,227 times?

During the first 28 years of the curse, all of the townspeople except Regina (and later Henry) had their lives and memories reset every 24 hours. Maybe a few details changed each day — knowledge of the current date, for instance — to keep people from freaking out about “How come it’s suddenly winter?!?” and stuff like that, but for the most part the townspeople didn’t move on to experience Day 2 of the curse until Emma came to town.

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I thought TIGER LILY ran in a different direction when HOOK & EMMA went through the door.

Yeah, that’s what it looked like to me, too.

I was under the impression she had her own agenda … maybe she wanted to go back to her people………….

Neverland is Tiger Lily’s self-imposed penance for failing in her duties, so I can believe that she wouldn’t want to leave if she hasn’t yet worked past her shame. Besides, she cares about the Lost Boys — she knows how messed up they are, and she apparently doesn’t kill them during the ambush — and that kind of puts her in the role of savior-by-default for the island.

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1) Regina gathers everyone to drink the sleeping curse from a silver chalice, similar to the ones often used during a Mass service.

Thirteen people, the same number as at the Last Supper.

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Do we think the writers have lost their DVDs of Season 1?

Ah, but Season One never happened now. We’ve been watching the Close Enough Timeline since the end of Season Three.

Tiger Lily used to be a fairy?

In hindsight, I think this makes sense, the importance of flowers to fairies being another of this episode’s callbacks to the Neverland arc.

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I liked:

Thirteen people drank from the same cup. There’s elegant Easter symbolism. (The part about a parent letting go of a child for the good of the world — well, it could have been elegant, too, if the show hadn’t been heavyhandedly labelling Emma as savior all season long.)

I disliked:

Henry is underage, yet the authority figures in his life permit him — perhaps even encourage him — to take part in a risky experimental magical medical procedure. Sure, he does it to protect his family, but how is that any different from a child wanting to join the army during wartime? We don’t let kids take risks like that, even to help people.

Edited to add:

Okay, I have to admit that I liked this episode’s title card, because the door in the woods looked like an outhouse filled with swirling, noxious fumes.

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She storms into the building and demands answers; I personally don’t consider that very Sheriff Swan of her.

In Emma’s defense, it’s the only way to get things done in Storybrooke. The town doesn’t seem to have a justice system like we’d recognize, just a couple of official thugs, a drunk tank, and a mental hospital for making inconvenient people disappear. Now that Isaac is gone, Emma and Lily are the only immigrants who grew up in the real world, and Emma’s been in Storybrooke long enough to acclimate.

This reminds me of how the Cylons initially played at being a human society when they took over Caprica but then found they didn’t much like it. Give Storybrooke a few more years, and it’ll either fall apart completely or it’ll fill out those facades and become like the outside world.

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I also find it a little unbelievable that someone–anyone–wouldn’t look at Gideon and not realize 1) he’s clearly been seriously abused by the Black Fairy and 2) he’s missing his heart. It’s a good canon compliant answer to Gideon but the fact that neither Regina nor Emma nor Rumple can’t simply tell that he’s heartless is a little…odd. Heck, Rumple could tell it about Cora by being her presence.

Oh, that’s easy for the Black Fairy to disguise: keep Gideon’s heart, and give him someone else’s.

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Emma is threatening to kill a victim of abuse just because they ****** her off by banishing her boyfriend.

I think Gideon’s murder plan had something to do with Emma’s attitude. It takes a special kind of savior to forgive that sort of thing; maybe we’ll see that in this weekend’s episode.

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