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I’m having a terrible feeling that this is going to lead to Rumple’s relapse as a villain–he pretty justifiably wants revenge on Zelena, who only took away everything he’d spent lifetimes working for AND sacrificed his own life for.
But I’m not sure I can deal with the pain of a truly evil Rumple. He’s never been 100% evil even in his very darkest moments. Even the darkest thing he’s done, killing Milah (in my opinion), stemmed from his love for Baelfire and his self-hatred for having let him go.
But math says Henry would gain two family members–baby Snowflake and Zelena–and lose one–Neal…
Which suggests that a wedding with any of his family members isn’t likely, because that would change the math, wouldn’t it? (On the other hand, how do you get married in this show WITHOUT marrying into his family? They’re all family…)
This does of course all assume that Zelena DOES survive, which obviously it’s way too soon to guess at.
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Kinda wish I hadn’t watched that last one–that’s like the whole ep right there–but WOW this looks like it’s gonna be amazing.
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Youtube version of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIbrLQvMktI&feature=youtu.be
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More than likely she’s right outside the delivery room, or possibly inside. We only had a few seconds of that part of the hospital.
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Mmmm This is gonna be a good season conclusion…I think.
(Next three eps, yanno.)
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And you know what? It’s okay that each of us got a slightly different thing out of the story–just as it’s okay that we don’t all see exactly the same things in Once. We’re all bringing our own life experiences, knowledge, and personalities to the stories we imbibe; the act of reading or viewing is not passive transmission of ideas from one person to another, but an active creation in our minds of the story we’re encountering. With reading the effect is heightened, as we’re transforming words into images and action in our heads.
If it weren’t for the fact that stories ARE open for interpretation, there would be no such thing as literary criticism (which is about interpreting the text, not pointing out its flaws, for those who aren’t so into English studies).
So what we each found in the story can be equally valid even if it’s different, opposed, or reflects our privileged biases. (And that means that RG and I can both be right about the curtains…in a quantum kinda way.)
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Well, Belle says books are BETTER than magic. So…
Current rankings:
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Not always–historically and in other cultures, kissing people you’re close to was perfectly normal and non-sexual. It’s true that for an unrelated male/female it would be more likely read as romantic, but that’s because those cultures often had a big divide between unrelated people of opposite sexes.
In this day and age almost all physical contact is read as potentially sexual in western culture. That’s not true for all cultures and times…and the characters in the original Oz books kiss one another quite innocently as a result. So I was reading Wicked through that lens–since I grew upon Baum’s oz books, which are a century old (and have very, very little romance in them at all).
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See, I read a ton of classics where people kiss all the time and it’s not sexual. So just kissing doesn’t make it a romance for me :p But it’s been a while since I read it, and I didn’t like it as much as classic Oz anyway, so…
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I must’ve missed something when I read the novel then…cuz I didn’t read them as lovers in Wicked.
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