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A thing I saw on tumblr…
Did you notice that not-so-subtle jab at NBC?
“A power outage must be your worst nightmare.” – GrumpyLiz Mitchell played a character who caused a global, permanent power outage that killed millions in NBC’s recently cancelled show Revolution (just last May).
Her character’s last indulgence a few hours after the blackout (and before all hell broke loose) was eat ice cream. She knew she would have no access to it again as it would obviously melt.
First scene in OUAT? She freezes melted ice cream.
“Just lucky, I guess.”
Brilliant, OUAT, brilliant.
[adrotate group="5"]I liked the idea of warlord Bo Peep more than the execution. The way she “branded” people just seemed not that warlordy. They shoulda gone all out and had her magic be a thing that could brainwash people so they didn’t question what she did and blindly followed her, thereby becoming her “sheep”.
Snow is now the Mayor of Storybrooke–says Grumpy and Granny and Happy. Will Snow stay the Mayor? Do you think she is up to the task? Should Snow be mayor?
WickedRegal’s Reaction:
LOLing at the appropriateness of that particular gif because Oliver QUEEN. 😉
It felt random suddenly having Snow be Mayor. Fair enough if they’d gone to her because Regina is MIA, like, it makes sense that Snow would be the next option if the town is in need of a leader in a time of crisis, but to actually label her the “new Mayor”?
Anyway, I’m glad they gave Ginny something more to do than in last week’s ep.
I liked how it linked up to present day and Charming getting through to Elsa because of Anna.
But something about the flashbacks, I just dunno. Maybe it’s because I’m so used to seeing Josh playing Charming as older and braver, and Elizabeth’s just so young and fresh and I don’t have that older association with her character, so seeing her be the older, wiser, braver one in that relationship, the balance was just off and I found it hard to buy that version of David. Or something like that?
The story about his dad left me cold. It felt like, “Meh we don’t have a story for him, and we need a sob story for David, so we’ll just have him be already dead so we never have to deal with him, two birds, one stone.”
I like that Emma finally has a friend she can really bond with. I don’t like that it’ll only last for half a season, because they really can’t have Elsa stick around longer than that because I’m sure Disney have other plans for her that don’t involve her being in SB. But for now, I like it and I hope they keep building the friendship.
I won’t lie: I don’t know how I feel about them giving Robin his own dark past, as if to match Regina’s own past. It’s like OQ can’t work unless Robin has his own darkness.
Ideally they wouldn’t have to give Robin Hood of all people a really dark past, but if they’re gonna insist that he’s meant to be with Regina, they’ve gotta give me something to make the pairing believable.
Robin being this skilled of a thief….dare I say he was once an assassin of sorts? Not like Graham the “Huntsman”, but Robin being like an actual hitman/thief. Along with robbing, he killed whoever he was assigned to kill.
I’d quite like that because it would mean he’s dealt closely with people like Regina before and even been on their side. It’d make me believe how he could have faith in her changing, if he had been involved in that same world but got himself out of it.
I guess I’m a bit like Belle- maybe way more forgiving than I ought to be.
Believe it or not, (because just about everything RG said in this thread, or says in any thread these days has me nodding my head thinking, “PREACH IT SISTER”), I’m the same.
Years ago a friend was drawing up my birth chart for me, calculating everything and looking up her text books, and every now and then she’d write something down and just shake her head and laugh because it was so me. One of those things was that I give people the benefit of the doubt way too easily, give them far more chances than they deserve. It hadn’t really occurred to me before then, but it’s totally what I do. At that point in time it was my ex-husband, who had left me in quite an insensitive way, (nothing says “see ya later” like an email from interstate on the eve on the 10th anniversary of the day you met, and then refusing to take my calls after the fact), but I didn’t rage about him to anyone, I didn’t even really badmouth him, (even though I would have been justified to do so), because what if by chance things somehow turned around, and that couldn’t happen if I’d talked all the smack about him. Nope, I just went on quietly wearing my wedding rings and hoping for some sorta miracle. And that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t raging and destroyed inside, but part of me still refused to give up on it all because I always give people all the chances, even when they may not really deserve it. A day came when I accidentally whacked the knuckle of my ring finger (and only my ring finger) on a door frame and had to yank the rings off immediately before it swelled up, (whacked it so hard I couldn’t straighten that finger for a few years after). It was quite clearly some force of the universe telling me, “Take the freaking rings off already!” But because I’m me, I just started wearing them on my other hand instead, and did so until he actually filed for divorce (here you have to be separated for a whole year before either party can file for divorce).
With this show, I got involved in a relationship with it, and believed in it, and we had some seriously fun and inspirational times together. The “ring I exchanged” with it is still on my finger, and maybe the “divorce” moment will be when the show ends and until then I’ll keep holding out for some sorta miracle, giving the showrunners neverending chances to win me back. So in that sense I guess I haven’t learned my lesson, but hey, it’s just how I roll.
But this time it’s not just me feeling heartbroken, there are many of us (not just on this forum) who feel the same sense of betrayal in the relationship, and perhaps that’s why I can call it out and vent and rage about it this time around, because all of us are like a support system for each other and it’s comforting to know that we’re not alone, and letting it out is better than keeping it in and letting it fester. Not all of us are at the same place, some of us are still watching, some of us aren’t watching but still haven’t disconnected completely, others just dropped the show like a hot potato and want nothing more to do with it. Everyone deals with relationship problems differently. And everyone has different aspects of a relationship that they prioritise, different limits, different opinions of what’s tolerable and what isn’t. Each of us, for better or worse, has their own unique relationship with the show, and has the right to react to it however we see fit, even if unfortunately it’s in a negative way.
