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The fact that we stayed steady on a two hour up against the juggernaut that is TWD is impressive. It shows ABC one thing–the fans that are left are loyal and will likely stay so until A and E say “the end!”
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Emma saving Hook after he jumps off the building- Whilst it may have been the right thing to do, it was such a stupid idea of Hook’s in the first place. Emma should’ve let him go splat!
Suicide/physical harm to get a girl’s attention. I cannot with the morals of this show.
Completely in character for Blaine from iZombie, and not even trying to reprise Dr Whale
YAAAAAAS. I was laughing so hard. It was just straight up Blaine. (I love Blaine. Terror that he is.)
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So the Mulan and Merida flashback during King Fergus’ death took place in-between 209-222.
Sure.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"It wouldn’t surprise me if they were one off’s. I think it’s more Hades’s story than Herc’s and Meg’s.
Also, oh Bailee. Fun.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Hook wanted to buy a house…but apparently has no job (nitpick, I know, but..seriously, how was that going to work?
Yes this. Part of what made SB and OUAT so compelling in S1 was that it felt very much like the real world. Like the town was real and it had rules and regulation and functioned like any other small town, USA. We were told that Gold basically owned everything and even collected rent. So how on god’s green earth did Hook get that house (a man who has admitted to still using doubloons) when he has no job and last year was found sleeping outside on a bench! Their “real world” is becoming more and more fantastical with every passing season to the point where it no longer feels like SB is a real place in our world.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Also, the fact that Hook hasn’t heard voices in his head or demonstrated dark magic tendencies is ridiculous. Are we really supposed to believe he didn’t know he had dark magic?
I have no idea. We’ve been told and shown that the Darkness is like a parasite that causes the host to have actual symptoms. Emma was treated like a patient with a terminal illness in Camelot. The voices, the fear, the random bouts of magic, all of those things were symptomatic of having the Darkness inside her. This is to say nothing of Nimue and Rumple, both of whom were instantly changed, in both form and demeanor, when they became the Dark Ones. The Darkness wants out, it wants to take control of the host. That’s what we’ve been seeing with Emma. But none of that is present with Hook. In fact, he’s been a waxing poetic about how much he loves Emma, how much he’s changed, and speaking about his past crimes with regret, casting himself as a villain. None of it makes a lick of sense.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Lemme get this straight. In 508 Hook tells Emma all about how he’s a changed man and how she’s the reason and blah blah blah, ‘ship stuff. But now that he has his memories back and knows that Emma turned him into a Dark One, he suddenly feels the need to go and challenge Not A Dark One! Cripple! Rumple to a fight (to the death!!!!!–probably) even though in 504 it was all “I was villain in that story!”
The darkness has been akin to a parasite with actual symptoms yet Hook displayed *none* of those this season in present day. None. Zilch. Squat. And now suddenly he’s all Dark One! Hook
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I’ll just repeat myself from another thread:
they planted their seeds poorly because it felt like it was Mulan and Merida the entire episode and Ruby was just a hanger-on whom Mulan went trotting off with later. And it’s like Mike said, the pronoun game is beyond insulting! They still can’t have Mulan say that she was in love with Aurora. It’s being kept vague on purpose (so as not to offend sensibilities?). So no, I have no hope that the show will actually spend any reasonable amount of time developing a realistic LGBT relationship. The next time they visit this particular ship, it will be go about as well as this episode did: it will be obvious filler and be frustratingly vague about any actual LGBT feelings between these two women.
This is endemic of a much larger problem on OUAT: inclusion and representation. People of color crop up every now and then, and then are shuffled off either by being evil or dying. How about gays or lesbians or transgendered peoples? None. Mulan is apparently bisexual but only in the most vague way possible. The writers make Mulan play the pronoun name, never explicitly state that she was into Aurora, not Philip. They have never said nor had Mulan say, out in the open, loud and proud, that she is bisexual/pansexual/gay. It’s the 21st century! It’s 2015! We live in an age where gay boys and girls are being beat up, harassed,and are killing themselves for those they chose to love. Wouldn’t it be great–wouldn’t it be empowering–for our media to tell the LGBT people of the world that they are loved, they are equal, and that their stories deserved to be told right alongside straight peoples! But no. OUAT doesn’t have it in them. They won’t fight that battle, but they’ll take the credit for being “bold” and pushing an LGBT narrative. Heads up, Adam and Eddy. You’re part of the problem, not the solution.
I’ll get off my soapbox now but the fact that they think they are doing something good here is more insulting than the episode.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Do you think they’d suddenly start to listen if the LGBT community decided to boycott their show, or maybe the entire network?
Nope.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
