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I joked that maybe Rumple and Neal were trying to spearfish a mermaid, but perhaps they’ll at least be talking to one, because they want squid ink in present day? Or maybe that’s squid ink that Rumple’s got painted on his face? I’ve wondered before if perhaps the ink is the antidote for the dreamshade, (because dreamshade poison looks like ink).
[adrotate group="5"]I wonder in what way she meant that? Reminds her of him in that he has a certain characteristic? Reminds her of him in that he’s the only other person there who has a history with him? Reminds he of him in that he’s constantly offering her drinks, and the first time she met Neal in the stolen Bug, he hit on her by immediately and insistently asking her out for a drink?
I’m searching for the tweet, but can’t find it, so maybe I am imagining it. I swear this was clarified by someone one Twitter in the last few weeks, but darned if I can find it now, and it’s gonna bug me. I have found this, which makes me think I’m not completely crazy, because this person implies the question has been clarified as well…
https://twitter.com/OUaTRegina/status/389514814877229056Tword issues. I remember this debate. I’m still not 100% sure. She was wearing her wedding dress when she pushed Cora through the mirror. Either her wedding had just taken place (in which case Cora was holding a sort of gun to her head) or it was just about to take place, meaning she couldn’t get away.
I might be imagining things, but didn’t Lana tweet recently to clarify that she pushed Cora through the mirror before the wedding?
Felix was creepy in that scene, standing there all calm, but with that excited anticipation on his face. GAH! Creepy! I’m guessing that if a cure for dreamshade poisoning exists, Pan has some handy, so the only real threat to Felix was probably if Henry shot him somewhere that would kill him even without the poison factor.
Dunno if Pan would want to darken Henry’s heart, because wouldn’t that then weaken it? And he wants Henry because he’s got the strongest heart ever. Pan needs to switch the allegiance of Henry’s heart, but still keep it strong. But he seemed pretty cheery about the fact that Henry shot at him, like it’s what he’d been hoping for. But how is that a good thing if he’s trying to get Henry to stay with him in NL? Unless Pan wants to die, in which case, Henry wanting to shoot him would actually be something to smile about?
I can’t quite figure Pan out, it drives me crazy, but I’m loving it!
Least fave (and not just of this episode): Mulan just nearly confessing her love to Aurora, Aurora being pregnant
No, no and no. You want to be friends to the LGBTQ community then be serious about it and not this.
On tumblr, there has been much rejoicing that SleepingWarrior become canon. On the OtherSideOfTheMirror podcast, which is hosted by a lesbian couple, they didn’t like it at all and thought it was a poorly executed trope.
I can see both sides of the argument, but at the end of the day, I doubt that Mulan is gonna be their one and only gay character, and I also wonder if they might continue her story in the future, so I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt right now. This may have just been setting the stage for a future story arc for her, and it may have also been their way of introducing LGBTQ characters into the show, and soon we’ll see more.
TV shows take time to tell a story, they take weeks, months, sometimes years to complete a story arc, so I like to keep an open mind about what they’re potentially setting up for the future, as opposed to assuming that what we’ve already seen is the complete sum of what they intend to do with any given plot point and get annoyed if I don’t consider it to be a satisfying conclusion, because there’s every chance that it’s not actually a conclusion at all.
I think I pointed this out earlier but the pixie dust just showed that they were soul mates. It didn’t specify when.
Which is something I don’t think Tink fully understood. She was just, “This poor girl is miserable, and I want her to be happy, and YAY pixiedust to the rescue!” It will end up that it wasn’t actually a bad thing that Tink revealed the identity of Regina’s eventual soulmate, because now Regina will know him when she sees him again, and will have a positive goal to work towards, (she hasn’t had many of those in her time), if she can summon the conviction to grab her second chance. So I think that Tink was playing a necessary role when she helped Regina to find Robin, even if it wasn’t at the appropriate time for them to be together.
The relationship would not have progressed in a healthy way if Regina was having an affair with Robin while married to Leopold. It wasn’t Regina and Robin’s time back then.
Tink is obviously cool with breaking rules. She was established as someone who stole, and who was on her second chance, which means she’s broken the rules before as well, so I think it’s in keeping with her character that she wasn’t put off by the thought of Regina breaking her marriage vow.
I think it confused a lot of people because it seemed like at least for part of Season 2 she was in love with Phillip and then she got to be close friends with Aurora and we don’t know what all happened while they were off rescuing Phillip but things seem to have changed and her affections switched to Aurora.
They did sorta set up her potential attraction to Phillip, I guess, but I never really bought it that she was in love with him. If so, why would she spend all that time trying to help him rescue his true love? Unless Mulan is some sorta masochist, it just doesn’t make sense IMO. I guess the same could be said for her having helped Aurora save Phillip, but I think by that point, even if she had feelings for Aurora, she wasn’t entertaining it as an actual, legit, relationship option, so she wasn’t losing out on anything by helping to reunite them.
There was debate about which one of them Phillip was talking to in Broken when he looked over his shoulder and says, “I love you.” Again though, I never really considered the Mulan option seriously, because he’s just been on this big quest to find Aurora, and if he’d fallen in love with Mulan instead, then why not just leave Aurora asleep? And ya know, we’ve just seen him use TLK to wake Aurora, and I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have worked if he was secretly in love with Mulan.
She’s brimming with excitement when she approaches Aurora.
And then when Aurora was all smiley, Mulan was all, “Why are you smiling at me like that?” Like she had a momentary glimmer of hope that perhaps there was faint chance that Aurora could possibly return her feelings. Then NOPE.
It was convenient that the screw got loose when Regina angrily pounded the balustrade, and even more convenient that Tinker Bell was right around to stop Regina from hitting ground. Do you think that was
a) random
b) fate
c) the doing of Blue
d) Rumple’s work
e) Tinker doing a tiny bit of tinkering?
If you answer with c), then why should Blue have done that? To set up Tinker, to set up Regina, or maybe both? For what purpose, to frustrate both because Tinker failed and Regina couldn’t overcome her fear to let go? Because of some meticulous plan to reboost magic, or/and the believe in magic? Because she needed Tinker to go to Neverland and Regina to become all dark? Why not let Rumple do the dirty work (he was quite sure already very keen on turning Regina dark for his needs and on a good way to succeed, despite Regina being a tad hesitant that day)?
Out of those options, I guess I’d be most likely to choose fate, because Regina is ultimately fated to be with Robin, and that possibility got planted in her mind as a result of her meeting Tink, which was a result of the balustrade breaking.
I think that Blue’s role in this ep was basically to delay Regina’s fated, eventual happy ending, because for right now, Regina was needed to cast the Curse.
We now know (if we take Pan at his word, and he’s many things but so far we have no proof of him being a liar) that magic has been dying out in all the lands, (which we’d suspected for a while with the last enchanted tree, and the last bean and whatnot)…
If that’s the case, then of course Blue would want to see the magic restored…
The way the magic can be restored is by Henry…
In order for Henry to be conceived, his parents had to be in a specific place at a specific time…
Emma ended up in her specific place and time because she was sent there by an enchanted tree in a plan that was suggested by Blue…
Neal had to end up in NL so he wouldn’t age and die before Emma was even born. If Rumple has tangled with Pan before, then Pan’s chances of snatching Bae weren’t great as long as he was in Rumple’s custody, but then Bae went down a portal alone, with a bean that had been given to him by Blue.
Therefore, IMO Blue has been working with Pan in an effort to get this Curse cast.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions… What were Tinkers intentions to help Regina? Pure selfless goodness? Was she just interested in Regina’s happiness, or as much in her very own happiness to be called a good fairy if successful? Was she acting out of truly felt hope and empathy for Regina or more based on hope for herself or both? Did she ask herself, if Regina was ready to meet her possible true new love, did she stay around to help if need be, or did she assume, some pixie dust and fate and love does the rest? Regina didn’t call for help when she was falling, not out loud at least, what gave Tinker Bell the right to interfere at all? Can one actually kinda push happiness onto someone?
Selflessness? Well possibly not but Tinkerbell was trying to help Regina to get out of the grasp of Dark Magic. Then, when trying to rid the Dark One of an apprentice, she gets told by the Blue Fairy (I like Jenny’s suggestions of Navy) to cut it? If this isn’t suspicious, what is? The original power, thought to be the source of goodness wants to deny hope and fresh start to a girl who suffered from the hands of her own mother and has given in to the temptation of darkness? Why would she do that if it wasn’t for some ulterior motive. Also some of the reasons she gave were quite ridiculous: “No, don’t help her because her mother was Cora who ripped out hearts!”
Exactly. Bae’s father also ripped out hearts, but Blue was plenty eager to help Bae. And while it’s true that Regina had actually associated herself with Rumple by that point in time, she wasn’t yet consumed by dark powers. That didn’t happen until she showed up in black for the first time and ripped out the gypsy’s heart. The Regina we saw in 303 was not beyond saving yet, but Blue saw to it that she wasn’t saved.
As for Tink helping Regina in an attempt to redeem herself in some way, that’s entirely possible. But if in trying to redeem yourself you’re inspired to help someone else, is that a bad thing?
As to what gave her the right? Let me rephrase your question, if you saw someone in a deadly situation or trying to commit suicide and it was within your power to help, would you let him die? This is what Tinkerbell found herself faced with and she decided to save Regina.
THIS!
