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GENERAL: Skin Deep holds an incredibly important place in my heart. It’s what brought me fully into this fandom, to these forums, to the podcast. Even through all the pain and nonsense OUAT has put me through over the past 4 years, there are a few episodes that remind me just how powerful this show once was and how much I sincerely loved it with a kind of obsessive passion. If Skin Deep was the first act of a movie, this was the much needed second act. Yeah, there’s plot spaghetti and some stuff going on with characters that don’t hold my interest as intently, but this was the ultimate goodbye for Rumbelle and while it wasn’t as perfect as Skin Deep was (is), it was still incredible.
Best episode of the season. And best episode the show has done in a very long time.
9.5/10
LIKED
–“I can’t even remember the last time I used the dagger.” Wow.
–“I had an ex-girlfriend…” We nailed at least one of the LGBT characters! Money is still on Drizella for her potential love interest.
–Alice is excellent. More Alice. Tons more Alice. I takes a lot for me to forget Sophie Lowe and OUATinWL but Rose Reynolds is the best part of this spin off so far.
–Roni makes a cocktail called “Poisoned Apple.” That’s some good pun-age, OUAT. Classic pun-age.
–“All I want is a life with you, Rumple.” I love that the show is embracing the idea that happily ever afters don’t mean immortality and that death is just the next part of the story. Death comes for us all and happily ever after means living life as best you can. Rumple could have had even longer with Belle (and Gideon, and Neal) if he hadn’t been so power hungry for so long. I really do hate that the writers kept moving him back and forth for the sake of drama.
–“We need to find your spawn!” I kinda like Ivy.
–“I wanna build our home with our own two hands” *Rumple throws down the dagger* I actually got incredibly emotional. Like actual tears. Rumple desiring mortality and wanting a happy life is what I’ve longed for for so long.
–Rumple catches Belle as she falls off a ladder, opening a curtain. Yeah, I’m gone. There are a lot of emotions.
–“You have to believe our love is powerful enough to outlast death…”
–Bobby and Emilie…..amazing chemistry for a story that has taken some truly weird twists and turns.
–“I took the dagger for one son; I won’t give it over to another.” There he is. There’s my Rumple. I’ve missed him.
MIXED
–It *is* like 2015-2017 in Storybrooke, yes? So someone explain Rumple’s incredibly old Polaroid camera….Even if he doesn’t want to use his phone there are a few more modern options, lol. The town isn’t actually stuck in the 1980s.
–I hate random prophecies inserted into narratives because the writers have written themselves into a corner. But I do like the name “The Edge of Realms.” Feels very fairy tale.
DISLIKED
–Lucy’s costume consists of an actual paper bag over her head….
–LOL at Belle’s long gray streak that is so completely unsubtle.
–Some context on where Rumbelle are would be nice; seriously, how is time moving so fast for them! Also, how did they even get to these places? Rumple creating portals rubs me the wrong way.
–Belle’s real translation doesn’t actually make a lot of sense but whatever.
–Soooooooooo Alice isn’t Rumbelle baby?! That blows. That was a rock solid theory. She’s Roger’s kid. UGH. Come on! This reveal almost knocks down my rating to a 9!
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"According to the calendar on ABC’s press site, OUAT will air a 2 hour episode on November 17th. I’m guessing it’ll be 707 and 708:
Figured we’d have a two hour at some point.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"The gig is up (majority of the audience left already knows Belle is probably gonna die) so ABC released them?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"First I gotta chuckle at the very obvious fake gray streak but no makeup to make Em actually look 40ish?
Second, Rumple wants to give up his magic and live as a mortal. Cue my clutching my heart! That’s all I’ve wanted for *years!*
Third, this will go horribly wrong somehow…
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"We’re supposed to find out who the LGBT character is in 704–this makes me think that Drizella is one half of the equation.
Could also be Alice.
Yes. My money is more on them being the LGBT couple with one of them being revealed gay this week.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"We’re supposed to find out who the LGBT character is in 704–this makes me think that Drizella is one half of the equation.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Do we have any Live + 7 numbers for 7×01 and 7×02?
I’m sure we do, but I haven’t seen them yet.
Does anyone wanna predict the ratings for 704 this week?
I think we’ll hold steady at a .5 with the very minor possibility that we’ll jump up to a .6
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"But maybe that’s just me, or maybe the actors themselves didn’t even know all the details to they played the scene strangely?
The writers seem to keep those kinds of plot points closer to the vest these past few seasons.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I think it’s odd they introduced Anastasia right after they announced WishRealm!Hook has a missing daughter and in the same episode they dropped some pretty big Tangled hints. My money is on Anastasia.
How though? Lady Tremaine and WishRealm Hook didn’t seem to know each other in EF 2.0. You’d think they’d remember each other if they’d had a kid together.
I think they do, though. Tremaine said something to WishRealm!Hook about “after what you did…” when she transformed him into his less-heavy version.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I think it is pretty likely that Tremaine is Rapunzel. The question now is just which one of the people left is fake Hook’s daughter.
I think it’s odd they introduced Anastasia right after they announced WishRealm!Hook has a missing daughter and in the same episode they dropped some pretty big Tangled hints. My money is on Anastasia.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
