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I started working on OUAT Valentine’s Day cards last night and then, this morning, I worked on more.
So brace yourselves for a really long post.
[adrotate group="5"]I’m unfortunately separated from my true love for Valentine’s Day, mostly due to the wintery weather we have. But we’ll have a skype date later.
My dad and I made breakfast for my mom this morning, pancakes and bacon.
It would be so ridiculous today of all days to start a ‘shipper fight.
It’s Valentine’s Day.
It’s a day all about love and sharing the love. And all of the characters on Once deserve love. Doesn’t matter if he or she is a villain or a hero, one thing they all have in common is love.
So, I hope the haters think twice before starting fights. But I really hope there isn’t a Valentine’s Day massacre today.
Guys, do you think that A&E automatically assumed that everyone would love Neal? Because of Baelfire. I’m just wondering, I’ve seen some arguments indicating that.
If the CSF thread were still around, I would have loved to ask SF fans this question because I’ve always felt anyway, most SwanFire fans love Neal because he is Baelfire and Rumple’s son. I love Rumple too and I love Baelfire, he was a great kid but it’s often difficult for me to reconcile that sweet kid with the adult Neal because they feel like two different characters sometimes.
It is interesting while they were filming season 2 of Once, that Adam and Eddie were actually considering making Neal and Bae two different characters. I think that would have been interesting to see. I doubt many people would have liked Neal if he were a different person separate from Baelfire. That Neal would just be seen as that guy who screwed Emma over.
Tallahassee’s a great episode because we saw teenage Emma falling in love and then lost that love, and essentially, realize it was a very traumatic experience for her. I think even Jane Espenson said or one of the other lady writers said, that you’re supposed to root for Captain Swan after that episode. Not SwanFire.
But again, you can’t tell someone how to ‘ship a ‘ship. People are going to ‘ship whatever with whomever, even if it doesn’t make sense.
Happy Valentine’s Day CS’ers!!
I was actually busy late last night making Once themed Valentine’s Day cards in Photoshop and then before going to bed, I thought of more tacky, silly messages I could use.
I love how we keep finding things to analyze about Hook’s love confession in Ariel. Here’s another one.
Here’s how I see it. IF Emma was in love with Neal than she would have no reason to look back at Killian before walking across the bridge in Echo Cave. She would have walked as fast as she could to Neal. She would have been so excited to see him. Emma would have never tried to use the sword on the cage. The first thing she would have done was confess her pain to be reunited with Neal.
SHE DID NONE OF THAT!
Emma looked back at Killian to see his face. She needed to see his reaction. He had just confessed his feelings for her and she was about to tell a secret that would free her from the emotions of her past relationship with Neal. Emma needed a bit of strength to move her forward. She needed to look at his face to remind her the reveal of her secret would lead to happiness. Happiness that was waiting on the other side of that bridge. All she needed to do was confront her past.
Emma walking towards Neal is representation of her taking control of her pain and taking it head on. She walks into to scared but free. The confession may free Neal from the cage but her words free her from the burden she has felt all those years. Their hug was a good-bye hug of the past selves. That moment is the end of what was, is and would ever be. Emma set herself free.
We didn’t see the walk back to Killian because we will see it now in 3B. We will witness first hand via the episodes and interaction Emma’s walk into happiness towards Killian. It will be a well paced and beautiful process. One that we get to see step by step. [x]
RumplesGirl wrote: Wait. Of course she looks like Emma..she’s Emma’s Great-Grandomther! Isn’t that what some are thinking. Glinda–Eva–Snow—Emma
Either that or Great Aunt if she’s Eva’s sister? I’ve always wondered where Emma got her blonde-ness from.
I don’t think she could be Eva’s sister. I think Charming would be more likely because he is blond. But actually, I’d like it for once if we had a character who isn’t related to someone else from the main cast.
Wait. Of course she looks like Emma..she’s Emma’s Great-Grandomther! Isn’t that what some are thinking. Glinda–Eva–Snow—Emma
Could be. But I’m guessing, probably from Charming’s side, not Snow’s because of the blond hair.
Let’s talk about something positive. A new ‘hope’ meta posted, this one is for ‘Good Form’
Hope per episode: 3×05 – Good Form
“Good Form,” (3×05) is the backstory of Killian Jones. He was a lieutenant in the Navy, served under his brother and his Captain and also, in service of the king.
Here, we will examine “hope” as a theme throughout the episode.
Emma, Hook and her parents and Regina are still looking in Neal’s cave for more clues. Emma discovers some etchings in the cave wall and they are tallies, and she notices something about them.
Emma: Neal stopped counting.
Snow: ‘Cause he got off the island.
Emma: He was here longer.
Charming: Then why would he…
Emma: Because he lost hope.Emma relates to how Neal must have felt, living alone in Neverland, all those years ago because she felt the same thing every time she was shuffled between foster families as a child. She stopped counting and just lost hope.
Hook relates to this because he knows what it feels like to lose hope.
Hook: I just wanted to let you know that I do know what it feels like, to lose hope.
We found out, in this episode, Milah wasn’t the only loss Hook suffered when he was younger. He also lost his older brother, Liam. He’s very familiar with loss and being helpless to save someone he loves. But Emma can’t focus on how he is trying to relate to her because she needs to focus on saving Henry and brushes him off.
Hook: It’s the best hope yet we’ve had of an exit plan. And don’t forget, we’re gonna need one.
After Hook told Charming about the sextant, it became their best hope for escaping the island. What the others don’t know, is that the sextant is actually not their escape but Hook’s only device to save Charming from the Dreamshade poison. But he’s putting it out there because the group needs hope, to believe that they can leave Neverland safely.
Liam: You actually think our king would send us to retrieve something so dangerous?
Killian: I would hope not. This is not what I signed up for.
It was established earlier in the flashback, this version of Killian Jones believed in good form, fighting fairly and generally, doing the right thing. So after he learned about the Dreamshade’s true nature, he really didn’t want to believe that the king he served was actually a villain and believed in “bad form.” He’s believed up to this point that the king was a good man, or hoped that he was.
Liam: We reveal our King’s cowardice.
Killian: Well, let’s hope the realm sides with us.
Liam: Oh, they will.
‘Good Form’ is all about the hero’s journey and specifically Killian’s journey, of what he initially believed was a hero’s journey. He and his brother believed this mission would bring glory to the Jones’ brothers and help make a name for themselves. But here, the brothers’ are coming back from the same journey two different, changed people.
And Liam shares Killian’s hope about exposing their king as a villain, and Liam is super confident that the realm, the kingdom will side with them. But them outing the king will bring a different type of glory than they originally thought. [x]
