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Another possible option: Feb 21st during the 60th anniversary of The Wonderful World of Disney special set to air at 8pm.
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Okay, I can collect my thoughts now. Obviously I thought S2 was an absolute success. This show does witty, campy, irreverent (at times), heartfelt drama so well. And it does it all in the guise of being a comedy extravaganza. But that’s what makes it so beautiful…sold as a comedy but the drama and narrative weight is there like it is with more serious hour long dramas. I was on the edge of my seat hoping Richard would go and get Roberta and save her from Mount Spinster (with her cat and chocolate). Even though we all probably knew that Galavant and Isabella would work out, watching them get there was tremendous fun. The show knows just when to poke fun of themselves and their genre–like the magical amulet McGuffin that no one has ever seen before, Neo of Sporin, spoofing various famous musicals and other fantasy movies/literature. The meta nature of the show is a huge selling point (and more than once I have felt that they were making fun of OUAT–“a pirate died!” even though they clearly wrote/shot 201 *before* 5×11 aired)
I think the best points of the season for me were Galavant and Richard’s interactions. From Richard’s introduction in S1 singing about wanting “to shoot him {Galavant} with a cross bow” to proudly declaring that Gal was his best pal, the show managed to develop a character that could have been a huge cliche (the evil king) organically and with only 20 episodes over the course of two seasons (which is shorter than your average broadcast drama!)
I loved watching Izzy take her people to war and fight for her happy ending which, yes, included true love but also included her fighting for herself and her freedom.
Gareth and Madelena were a surprise feel-fest I didn’t see coming.
The fact that it wasn’t Galavant who was the one true king to unite everyone with the hero’s sword, which is a nice deconstruction of the hero trope.
And Tad Cooper…bless. Just bless that dragon.
Favorite Songs: My Dragon Pal and Me; A New Season; Off With His Shirt; The Happiest Day of My Life; Giants vs Dwarves; A Dark Season (super short little ending song, but I adore the “now this season needs a hero” “and he’s on his way” with the main Galavant theme overlaid); Maybe You Won’t Die Alone; As Good As It Gets.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"“Would you like me to write you a theme song, my king?” “Shut up, Menken!”
I totally forgot to write that one down. That was brilliant, as is the rest of this show.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"2×09 Super Liked (No dislikes!!)
–This is not #GreaseLive (twitch)
–“So back to this old theme…”
–“Which may or not be a real live dragon” I believe in Tad Cooper!
–“I gotta admit it, the boy can sing” Ben Presley has got an outstanding voice
–“Thanks dad. That’s helpful”
–“You said boob” “Please focus”
–“Breathe FIRE!!!” Richard has a dragon and a sword. He’s such a hero/cupcake
–Some devilishly handsome hero type. #Trope #Meta #GodILoveThisShow
–Chef and Gwynne! I missed them. (OMG the army is coming right for them)
–“Who doesn’t like zip lining?”
–“Can we call a time out?”
–REUNITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (after a few punches)
–“We’ve got a lifetime to work on it.” SHIP IT. SHIP IT SO HARD
–“Do the D’Dew”
–Main cast all in one place again!
–“I won’t leave my friend.” *sad whimpering*
–I’m having feelings. I’m having a lot of feelings. “It’s a good day to die”
–OMG the cliffhanger joke!!
2×10 Super Likes! (No Dislikes!!)
–Richard and his younger self having a cute little song.
–It’s a gay army. Led by Sid. The gays are saving the day. This is the best thing since the last thing I said was the best.
–“We couldn’t afford him…or anyone else recognizable”
–“What the hell is wrong with you?” “I honestly have no idea.”
–“I am getting my happy ending!”
–OMG SAVE TAD COOPER. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. DON’T DO THIS TO ME
–YOU HAVE AWOKEN THE RICHARD-DRAGON. PREPARE TO DIE, WORMWORD.
–The Cupcake is a HERO
–IZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
–HE’S LIVES!!!!!! TAD COOPER IS ALIVE!!!!! ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!
–“He’s a dragon!!!”
–People admitting they are really villains. Strange. I remember a show that used to do that. #OUATShade
–I am all about the deconstruction of princess.
–“Screw the zombies and the wizards and the dragons”
–Garry Galavant
–“I’m still kneeling here”
–A real life happily ever after! After all!
–This show makes me so very happy, guys.
–“Here’s a cat and some chocolate”
–“Put down that cat”
–OMG #Richerta
–WEDDING!!!!!! “Cannibal elves”
–I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW. LIKE SO MANY.
–OMG COME ON!! YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME A S3!!!!
–I have a dragon!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I meant they don’t have any plans for him now after they killed him off and replaced him with Hook.
Oh I gotcha. Sorry, my bad.
But I agree. There is no long con here. A and E stopped thinking long term right around 3×11. Since then it’s been thinking in terms of the arc alone with each new arc resetting the characters to some sort of zero (except, maybe, Regina). Emma, certainly.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I know that everyone wants MRJ’s new show to go well for him, but honestly i don’t think it looks very good. If he wasn’t in it then i wouldn’t even try it. I have a hard time imagining that staying on the air, but who knows maybe it will be better then it looks. The problem being that if it looks bad a lot of people won’t even give it a chance.
Eh. TV viewing is highly subjective and individualized. There’s a niche for everyone, be it fantasy, procedurial, medical, or cerebral. GoS look intriguing enough for me to check out (and even if I don’t continue then I hope Mikey/it does well) even if it’s not the usual thing I go for (fantasy and high art/cerebral)
MRJ could make time for both shows.
Mikey making time is not the issue. ABC and NBC sharing a star is. It doesn’t happen for a reason: it’s a business more than art.
If they really had done that, it was because they needed someone who looked like dylan. I honestly don’t think they have any long term plans for Neal, they made it pretty clear that it’s Hook they want, no matter how it doesn’t make sense and that they had to sacrifice characters for this pairing to make any kind of sense.
Completely disagree. First, they did handpick MRJ. The casting call was for “Jack’ but they used that to throw people off. They brought in MRJ, sat him down next to a pic of Bobby-as-Rumple and said, “that’s your dad.”
I think they did have a long term plan and there are portions of what that we see playing out now. A and E aren’t telling a brand new story; in a lot of ways they are telling the oldest story there is: light vs dark/ good vs evil. The show is ultimately about Emma’s hero journey toward selfhood and finding her place in the world with her incredibly large and weird extended family. The main point of SF was that the concept of Tallahassee can be found together even if it’s not in a literal Tallahassee. It was about the lost boy and the lost girl coming home. I have no doubt that they always intended Emma to go dark (Hero Trope!) but they replaced Neal and his role with Hook.
I wrote this much clearer three-four months ago after 505. *goes digging*
*obnoxiously quotes self*
My friend (@dontstopbelivin) has a great metaphor for OUAT that I think I’d like to share. The story of OUAT was a bridge and it was really Emma’s fairy tale. When we meet the Swan, she is broken hearted and closed off and has her famous walls but over the course of the show, in the end, with villains and magic and plot along the way, she opens up and becomes a fully realized Savior. Emma was always supposed to go dark (heroes journey 101) but on the other side of that darkness were her home and her family. Part of this narrative bridge was Neal and SwanFire. It was part of the structure that held up that bridge. The story of Emma becoming the fully realized Savior and a fully realized Emma Swan was finding a new kind of Tallahassee with Neal and Henry in the town of Storybrooke with the Evil Queen, Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumple, and Belle and everyone else. It was the idea that Tallahassee need not be the actual Floridian city but a feeling–it was the feeling of home. Never forget that this entire series began with Emma being cast out of her home. The ending is clear: Emma Swan comes home at long last and is embraced by and embraces all those she loves with open arms. What happened, along the way, was the the show removed those structural beams and replaced them Styrofoam. The narrative is still there: Emma will still go on her heroes journey and still rise as a fully realized Savior and fully realized Emma Swan but the poetry, the magical poetry of OUAT, is long gone. Instead of Neal, we have another character who doesn’t have the same resonance and poetic appeal that Neal did in terms of Emma’s journey to find her home and now with our current plot of Emma’s battle with the darkness. Who better to know what it means to be lost to the power of the Dark One if not Nealfire Cassidy? This entire show centered around a young boy who watched his father be over taken by the Darkness, flee from that father, and then that father seek out a way to find him again and create a Savior in the process. Hook’s character is periphery to all of that and that’s why the narrative bridge is now so lackluster and full of holes. It can’t hold up under the scrutiny it once did because it has removed its support beams
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The worst thing is that they kept poor Guinevere in her mind raped state until they “feel like” and “have the time” to adress that *facepalm*. Guinevere is a symbol of everything that is wrong in this show (their treatment of women, poc and rape culture).
Exactly this.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"\https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/406523-i-believe
I have never needed a shirt so bad in my life
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
