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Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nXSX3s976s
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http://www.spoilertv.com/2014/10/once-upon-time-episode-403-rocky-road_26.html Full set of promo pics for 403. Working on getting them posted here. Here we go:
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Start watching at 0:55 :
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Hey, you fixed the lag! 😀
Posts now show up in about 3 seconds! 😎
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Sometimes I refresh the page (recent posts), and the chat doesn’t show up. I have to click on another page, or click the “recent posts” link on the page (instead of refresh) for the chat to show up again. Other times refresh works. But it’s happened several times.
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Lots to read in this thread! 😎 I haven’t read it all yet (I will 😉 ), but in the meantime here are the thoughts that I had about heroes, and villains, and happy endings. 🙂 Or specifically, Regina.
At this point, Regina has made several successful efforts towards being a good person, and even a hero. She has helped people when it didn’t benefit her, she has saved people lives because they have become important to her. She protected Snow, of all people, by standing in front of her and saying “You’ll have to go through me first!” And she has defeated villains, for the good of all.
She has made amazing steps toward being a hero, and then she finds that her happy ending is taken away, again. And because villains don’t get happy endings, and heroes do, she thinks this means that fate (the book) is still treating her as a villain.
But I think, she just doesn’t truly understand what a hero is. Yes, doing all of those selfless things that I listed are heroic. But that is only part of the story. Pun intended.
This is getting rather meta, but the show has already opened that box. Since the characters know their lives are stories, and their stories were written by an author, Regina should start thinking about how stories actually work.
Because villains aren’t randomly bestowed with misery as a punishment for evil, and heroes who help people aren’t just magically blessed with happy things as a reward. They have to work for it.
All those stories that end happy for the hero? They start out by having their happiness taken away, and the hero must fight against all odds in order to get it back. What makes them a hero is how they go about doing that, and also never giving up.
So what has just happened to Regina? She did some heroic things, for selfless reasons. But those were just her first steps toward being a hero. Originally she was the villain in someone else’s story. Then she acted heroically in a story about everyone. Now, she gets to be the hero of her own story, to fight for what she deserves.
Now she is being tested. This is her chance to decide what path she will take towards that goal. So far, she has stopped herself from going down the wrong path. Now we will see if she will find the right one.
I don’t think the book sees her as a villain at all, and I think this challenge, this obstacle in her path, is actually proof of that. As she is new to being a hero, she doesn’t actually know what “being a hero” truly means. From her life as a villain, she only knows of heroes as people who defeat villains. (An obvious reversal of our usual one-dimensional view of villains as only existing to challenge the hero, and not developed beyond that.)
Since she is used to seeing heroes win, she doesn’t see the arduous journey it took for them to get there. Someone needs to tell her this quote: “Everything will be alright in the end. If it is not alright, then it is not yet the end.”
That quote is meant to be a general philosophy of life, a reminder to never give up hope. But doesn’t it apply perfectly to someone who knows they are in a story, and are destined to a happy ending? 😀
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The smilies in the chatbox don’t necessarily coordinate with the forum. There are some differences. I printed out a list for my use from WordPress since that’s connected to the forum and the chat is Cbox. Google is your friend and you can find a list.
Muhahahha…I am master of the Smilies. Yay, thank you! I recognize those! 😎 I didn’t know what to google, but now I know how to use them!
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Weird, : cyclops : doesn’t work, and : lol : looks different than the one in the list! (I like this one better though.) 😆
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