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They just released a beautiful-looking French version of Beauty and the Beast, but doesn’t look like it’s planned for an English release, and those who seem to know aren’t even sure there will be anything with english subtitles. Pity.
I’d forgotten Dalmations…it was a fun re-imagining. Maleficent…still can’t get my head wrapped around Maleficent. She’s one of my favorite villains…she does evil with such elegance…to humanize her…not sure how I feel about that.
Cate Blanchett seems so young for this role…but I’m confident she’ll make it work.
[adrotate group="5"]Darkonesfan, your villain reminds me of David Xanatos from Gargoyles, except I don’t think he was ever naive (I dunno…maybe when he was four?).
I could see a couple of FBI agents, not unlike Mulder and Scully, coming to the town to investigate the abnormalities that satellites have been picking up, like the light beacon from the time vortex. (Actually, X-Files meets Storybrook would be a hoot as a crossover fic…I must see if that exists.) They might not necessarily be villains, but would have the potential to really throw a wrench in the works. Of course we’ve already tread some of that path with the Greg and Tamara plotline. Maybe some characters who were actually personable and not shady.
Another character I thought of the other day was more a parody idea: The Keeper of Lost Plot Devices. He keeps a vault (Storybrook is honeycombed with vaults, dontcha know.) containing all the objects and loose ends that seem to have been forgotten about by the characters: Pandora’s box, King George’s vengeance, the fact that there is most likely a Home Office still out there somewhere…and he just releases these items at random from their cages on occasion, so the characters are forced to tie up loose ends.
Hey, there are two X-Files crossovers to be found! Must read now!
They seemed to be implying that most things in the timeline straightened themselves out. Hence the trolls still died, but at Regina’s hands, not Snow’s.
When did Walsh get the slippers back?
Actually, Glinda’s behavior isn’t that far out of line from her behavior in the actual books. In one of my favorite scenes from book two, the Scarecrow comes to Glinda complaining because his throne has been taken by an uprising of General Jinjur and her army of girls with knitting needles. (Crafters will rule the world!)
Glinda replies that if Jinjur has declared herself Empress, she has no right to oppose her. After all, the Scarecrow never had a right to rule. He received his power from the Wizard, who arrived and took the throne just after the death of Oz’s last legitimate King and the disappearance of the infant princess. I don’t know how much trouble Glinda went to looking for Ozma (to be fair, she was REALLY well hidden), but without the rightful ruling family in power, she didn’t seem to care much who was in charge. Maybe she thought some stability was better than nothing?
I’d like to see something more than just another breakup, but yes there should be consequences. I’d like to see Belle actually working to stop something bad Rumple’s attempting. Like she did with Robin Hood. For example, if Rumple jumped into the new time portal to try to save Bae, risking anyone who got in his way in past or future, I’d like to see her jump in after him and actively attempt to stop him. I just…want more from her than walking out with her sad/angry look again. Just new ground for their characters to cover, I guess.
I’ve mentioned this in the chatroom, but I think Zelena is the twister. After Rumple kills her, she becomes the green magic mist and swirls into a portal that transports things through both time and different realms…and I think she just keeps spinning, perhaps with no individual consciousness. She may well be drawn to those past events that shaped her, thereby shaping her own destiny, but not in the way she wanted. Both ironic and fits with the eternal loop type of time travel concept.
What kind of ribbons tabsicle? My grandma used to make me crocheted curlicue ribbons to wear in my pigtails. I still have some of them in a box for memories *tries to think of one good reason not to wear one in a ponytail sometime…*
I don’t find Eva’s telling of the facts to Leopold troubling in and of themselves. It’s all the stuff surrounding it that paints her in a bad light.
1. Was she actively eavesdropping? Kinda looked that way. If she just stumbled upon the situation (and maybe she did, as she was preparing to leave), then I don’t blame her for that.
2. It feels like it was done out of spite, to help Eva get her own way. Not flattering. Still necessary to inform Leo though, I think.
3. The most damning thing against Eva, in my opinion, is not that she told Leopold, but that she apparently told half the castle. Or let the secret out to someone who did. That makes her a gossip, and tacky to boot. Leopold needed to know. The rest of the castle did not. If not simply childish, it was also a manipulative action, because Eva smearing Cora’s reputation put additional pressure on Leopold to reject Cora. I think he would have done so anyway, but Eva handled this badly (or very well. Catherine de Medici on Reign would be proud.)
Cora gets little sympathy from me, but neither does Eva. But for these reasons, not for preserving the line of succession or telling a man he’s been duped.
Well, there is one version of the rhyme that involves a doctor:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
They called a doctor from the town to come and fix poor Humpty’s crown.
He put a stitch in Humpty’s leg and bandaged up poor Humpty’s egg.
He used some tape and then some glue, and Humpty’s now as good as new.”Since it’s not meant to run as a several season show I don’t know if we’ll ever get some full-out story where the man drops through to Wonderland and gets turned into an egg (Wouldn’t that be nice?). Maybe it’s just a metaphor for how he went to pieces after seeing the rabbit and has been trying to put himself back together with laudanum since. The styling just looks really intentional to me, and I thought he resembled Humpty before that shot.
Even more convinced that there’s some connection here between the doctor and Humpty since watching “Who’s Alice?” The moment when Jafar shows him the White Rabbit, he just shrinks into his necktie and looks, frankly, like an egg…actually, like a specific egg.
To paraphrase Humpty’s conversation with Alice…is it a belt? Is it a cravat? Look at the way his collar flips up on the sides just like Humpty’s. This styling doesn’t seem to be accidental.
I also found a reference to a Dr. Lydgate in a book called Middlemarch, but I don’t know enough about it to draw any conclusions from the Wikipedia article.
