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I thought Snow and Charming’s end-conversation was the strongest because she’s actually encouraging him to choose life–his life, the life he has with her, the life he has with their children–all of which falls under the umbrella of love and life. I think @nevermore is right about being half-baked because I don’t think they established what it means to choose life vs what it means to choose love.
If Emma chose “life” let’s say, what exactly does that entail? She’s wouldn’t break up with Hook, she wouldn’t stop seeing Henry, Regina or her parents. What does choosing life for her even mean because her life, according to her, is her whole community which means a life full of various types of love. The show is suggesting that the type of love she needs to choose, expressly at least, is romantic love even if she ends up dying but doesn’t that ignore the many other facets of love that already exist in Emma’s life? Like Henry, Snowing, and Regina??
The line :”love over life” seems catchy and it’s something that is quotable but when you sit down and think about it, it’s really opaque and doesn’t actually make a lot of sense. To me at least.
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Oh was it supposed to be a different key? I figured it was the same as Rumps. We know he was looking for the fairy godmother and made a deal with George to find where she was if I recall correctly. I thought the implication was that this is why Rump wanted to know and killed her to locate and steal the key. Wait, did Tremaine take the key with her? Because that throws a hole in that. Also, the fact that Rump said he came for the fairys wand :/ Also, how did Tremaine even know what the key did, Ella didn’t tell her did she.
See I thought it was the same key but how could it have been when Tremaine opened the door to the LoUS *after* the ball and Cinderella’s deal with Rumple and she didn’t see him again until he came make good on the pregnancy deal.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Sweet Jesus. We get it; Aladdin and Jasmine are coming and it’s the most magical thing to ever happen in the entire universe. Next week’s promo will literally just be the announcer screaming “ALADDIN AND JASMINE” for thirty seconds.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"OVERALL: I thought this episode was fine, good even. There’s a lot of smaller moments I really liked and the flashback finally felt relevant and a bit magical since it’s mostly straight up Disney. But the scenes, moments, themes I didn’t like…I really didn’t like . And yeah, Anastasia. That’s a big negative for me. It’s about the same as last week for me, honestly. A 7.5/10
LIKED
–Mouse!Gus Gus is everything. Let’s have an episode of Gus Gus and Sven from S4.
–The lasagna scene was well done
–Alexandra is a very cute child.
–“Some scars don’t heal.” This line was said to Emma and it would really behoove her to talk about her lifelong scars instead of only focusing on her boyfriend not getting his HEA.
–“Is this our life now: defeat and repeat?” I actually really liked this “normal” conversation between Snowing. It’s a much needed conversation.
–The EQ’s hair and blue gown are on point.
–“You look like a trash bin and you have the education of my cat.” Wow
–The flashback overall was well done with some of that S1 magic about uncovering a story you thought knew but really there is more to it.
–Bobby’s almost-real Scottish accent. Lovely. (you can it’s not totally his real one which is beyond Scottish)
MIXED
–Emma’s session with Archie. On the one hand, Emma talking to someone is GREAT but on the other hand…it all comes back to Hook. It always comes back to Hook. She’s bummed that she can’t give Hook a future. What about your child, Emma Swan?? What about your family and friends and town? What about YOU?
–I’m confused. How did Ella’s mother get that key to the Land of Untold Stories? And why did she give it to Rumple? That wasn’t in “Price of Gold.” It’s sort of retconnish.
–The step sisters and step mother were wonderfully catty but I really could have done without the whole “misunderstood step sister who is secretly a nice person” storyline. We just met her; I have no reason to care about her.
–Emma reminding Ashley to punch back and tell people who she is, is a nice callback to S1 though this time it falls flat since Emma is a shell of her former self and is constantly negotiating her identity through her boyfriend.
DISLIKED
–Emma barging into a shrink’s office is a total no-no. Those sessions are confidential and that’s really egotistical of Emma to think she can just show up and basically have Archie kick Grumpy out. And on that note, that’s really unprofessional of Archie.
–Dopey is off getting his Masters? Are you kidding me? I was thinking it raises questions about the curse once again; even if his BA was granted by the curse it doesn’t hold any meaning outside of SB to any university because his BA is for all intents and purposes fake. It’s like in “Save Henry” when Gold used his contacts outside of SB to find Henry for Regina. The curse did not manufacture real contacts, only memories of fake contacts but any attempt to act on those memories couldn’t actually happen because the curse did not affect the world outside of SB.
–Anastasia. Anastasia. Anastasia. Say it with me: OUATinWL is CANON.
–Hook and Henry “stick” fighting. Stop re-imagining Henry and Neal scenes to be Hook and Henry. It’s not okay.
–Ella’s response to Clorinda’s indignation over Ella telling Lady Tremaine is “but look! I’m engaged!” Wow, seriously?
–Let’s not call an ambulance or poof the bleeding victim to a hospital! Let’s have Emma and her wonky magic heal Ella and save her from certain death! (But don’t they now owe the Fury a soul??)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Then it is like wink wink, we did the thing? You like us now, right? This show is progressive and inclusive and feminist now? Wink wink? Right? Hello?
Right; and as long as they keep saying their show is about strong female characters or that they respect every type of diversity, then they–in their minds–don’t have to show it .
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I predict that we’ll rise to a 1.2 or maybe even a 1.3 tonight. Apart from the Cinderella promotion, I think that people might also have the TV flicked onto ABC in preparation for the debate right after.
I hadn’t taken the debate into consideration. This week should prove interesting then
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"They really don’t get it.
This is it exactly and it extends into every aspect of their show. Like, you mentioned Hook, but it goes to their continued PoC problem–they were getting creamed by fans and even some critics about their lack of PoC representation and how they treated their PoC characters. So what did they do? They cast a Latina Gwen and an African Merlin—and then proceeded to have Gwen raped and Merlin killed to further a white character’s plot. They think the simple act of casting two diverse characters is enough because they may hear the complaints, but they don’t listen, really and truly listen. Substitute PoC for LGBTQ or anyone not heterosexual, white, and young.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"He is a genius and I love him so very much. How lucky are we to be able to share a lifetime with Lin Miranda?
look around, look around. At how lucky we are to be alive right now
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I still wouldn’t like it, but at least I wouldn’t feel like they’re insulting their audience’s intelligence
that’s exactly how I feel as well. It’s basically them saying “whoops! We forgot that we put all these heavy clues in for you to find and uncover so instead of admitting that we ourselves forget pieces of our story we’re going to just say that y’all were wrong all along but hey better luck next time! #WhenTheAudenceFigureItOutWeChangeThings!”
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
