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If your heartless you shouldn’t really be able to feel anything. You should be numb. You might know what you’re supposed to feel and fake it but you can’t actually feel it without a heart.
I agree. That is how it was for Will in Wonderland, and it actually made sense. Now suddenly it seems a bit too convenient for Regina and Hook to feel something despite being heartless. It doesn’t feel natural to the story the way say, Will being heartless accounted for him being a bit of a jerk, when really, he was a man who didn’t want to feel anything and so agreed for Cora to make him heartless.
[adrotate group="5"]"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I’ve always said that it would be 100% weird for this kid to NOT have magic. But now…I don’t know. Ingrid thinks Baby Snowflake is normal too–don’t know if he actually is or not.
Yeah, but Zelena seemed to think baby Snowflake was special. Was it just because he represented innocence, or was it because he was born of his parents’ truest love, like Emma was? Plus, Ingrid seems kinda unhinged and unreliable.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
With the Snow Queen (Elizabeth Mitchell) having released the Spell of Shattered Sight, Emma may not realize her new beau is a dead man walking. “She senses something, but she doesn’t have time to figure out,” Morrison says, noting that Hook’s lack of heart won’t necessarily change things between them. “As we’ve established before, Regina [Lana Parrilla] spent a long time without her heart and it didn’t stop her from loving Henry [Jared Gilmore] or Robin Hood [Sean Maguire]. Hook doesn’t cease being Hook and doesn’t cease having the feelings that he has for Emma. He’s just blackmailed into a circumstance where Gold can, at any moment, control him. He hates having this secret from Emma and he doesn’t know what it means in the long run, what she would do if she found out this secret.”
This seems inconsistent with how Graham, Cora and Will Scarlet were portrayed without a heart. Graham couldn’t feel anything. Cora couldn’t love Rumple or even love Regina because she removed her own heart. Likewise, we saw in Wonderland how not having a heart negatively altered Will Scarlet. It was only after Cora’s heart was put back in her own body that she realized Regina would’ve been enough. Likewise, it was only after Will’s heart was forcibly put back inside him that he was able to forgive Ana and feel something for her again. I suppose Graham was able to feel something again after Emma kissed him and he remembered his fairytale life. Both Hook and Graham have kissed Emma, but Regina hasn’t to our knowledge, so savior lips can’t be the only answer. Just seems like messy folklore to me. So why are Regina and Hook able to feel things without a heart while Graham, Cora and Will Scarlet were unable to do so while heartless? That doesn’t make sense to me. What are the “rules” of heart lore supposed to be?
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I don’t really like the idea that someone is pulling the strings on the whole story somehow.
Nor do I. But the lesson that “we all write our own story” is different to a physically manifested book that tells the story. Each of us, in the real world, we (for the most part) write our own stories, don’t have a puppet master pulling all our strings and forcing us into acting certain ways. But a person’s story doesn’t get turned into a book unless an author actually creates a book about it. So it’s fine if they want to go with this self-authoring moral, that makes perfect sense. But when it comes to the actual physical thing that is the Book, they should have a separate explanation for how it was created and by who.
There had better be an explanation for who created the spell behind the magical book. I’m not sure there is an actual author of the stories contained therein, since I do like the idea that each person creates his or her own destiny. However, my money is still on the Blue Fairy or the sorcerer (sorceress?) being the one behind the creation of the physical book itself. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone like Glinda even had a hand in the book, since she seems to be the record keeper of events past, present and future in Oz; yet even Glinda said to Zelena that she had her own power to choose her own destiny.
As for the alternate page 23 (which I think is a nod to D23, the “official” Disney Fan Club), I think Regina may be tempted to add it into the book itself. But that would create a huge moral dilemma for her, since if Regina had walked into that bar that night, then Emma never would’ve come to our world, met Neal, and had Henry. And I don’t think Regina would ever choose an alternate history with Robin at the cost of not having Henry. Regina after all said she didn’t have any past regrets since everything she did got her Henry.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Not only does the universe apparently give you sunshine and happiness if you do good but adultery is A-OK, says Snow White!
The writers are trying to tarnish Snow White to prop up Regina and Robin’s adultery, but I’m not buying it. First of all, Snow never slept with someone else’s husband; Snow slept with her own husband, though she didn’t know it at the time. David was never actually married to Kathryn; he was merely cursed with fake memories to believe he was married to her. I suppose Snow and David did technically “cheat” on each other by sleeping with Dr. Whale and Kathryn, respectively, but they were cursed at the time, so that hardly counts. Robin and Regina aren’t cursed and therefore don’t have that excuse. Now it seems David also slept with Mary Margaret, his real wife, during the first curse, though what they thought that was an extra marital affair was actually just a married couple making tacos. Sheesh. This is like doing acrobatics in moralizing.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
*dying over Lily’s review* Yup. all of that.
Accurate!
Also, we are to believe that now the book rewrites itself just because of hope? Or what. I’m confused by the alternative history. Will we now have Regina rewrite history by replacing the original page 23 with the new page? If so, wouldn’t that mean Henry was never born because Emma never came to A Land Without Magic? I can’t imagine Regina choosing Robin Hood over Henry.
And bs my big pet peeve in this episode was Snow White telling Regina that if you do good, the universe rewards you. What planet does Snow live on? Doing good didn’t get her own mom and dad anywhere did it? Cora and Regina murdered them! Doing good didn’t get Neal anywhere. The only reason Snow can live with ‘hope’ is thanks to Neal repeatedly giving up his own happy ending to get Emma home to her parents. Snow’s speech to Emma about having hope for her own happy ending with respect to Neal ultimately didn’t amount to anything other than Neal’s untimely death.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Also, I was astonished Milha was mentioned by name. I thought the writers wanted us to forget about her and Hook’s obsession with her. But not only was Milha mentioned by name, but Hook’s obsession with her was compared to his current obsession with Emma! Too bad Emma wasn’t around to hear it. She needs to know Hook’s history with Neal’s mom if I’m ever to believe she and Hook can ever have a relationship based on honesty.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I wonder what, if anything, will come of Hook’s voice message on Emma’s phone. Will she be angry that Hook hid the secret about the sorcerer’s hat from her? That is the fourth time Hook keeping a major secret from Emma has endangered her life (first time was Cora, second time was Greg and Tamara, third time was Zelena). Will she figure out his ‘confession’ was actually a lie? Will she care? She looked really happy to see Hook; she obviously trusts him, so her hearing that voicemail from Hook ought to reveal that trust was misplaced. While it might result in a temporary break up, I know she’ll likely forget it all by 3×11. Is Emma ever going to figure out Hook was the one who decided blackmail Rumple? Will she learn he punched Will and threatened to kill him if he said anything? While she may find out now that the spell of shattered sight has been cast, I know nothing will likely come of it.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
The door is way too easy. Jefferson’s hat couldn’t travel to a land without magic, yet this door could? I find that to be inconsistent. Maybe there is some explanation like the door was made of the same enchanted wood as the magic wardrobe was and therefore could create a portal to our world. But if that is the case, it should’ve been explained in the show itself.. It would take less than 20 seconds to explain, but instead is left unexplained. The magic door that travels to A Land Without magic now seems like a major plot device. Also, Rumple’s lack of knowledge about said door makes him look short-sighted. He went through all that trouble to create a dark curse to find his son, and now we learn he could’ve just used a door? Ok, then.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Anyone else notice that Elsa used the red scarf to find Emma? You know, the red scarf Emma wore when she found Neal in Manhattan. I’m pretty sure it won’t amount to much, if anything, but I couldn’t help but notice it. It’s bright red.
Also, even though Elsa and Emma have only known each other for few days, I was very happy Elsa, rather than Hook, was the one to find Emma. Also, I was very happy that Emmas self love rather than Hook’s “love” is what helped Emma save herself.
Hook’s “confession” to Emma was actually a lie. He claimed that Rumple blackmailed him when I’m sure it was the other way around. Liar, liar pants on fire. And I have had it with Rumple too, lest anyone think I favor him over Hook. Rumple tried to murder the woman whom Neal loved, whom Neal died to protect. And people wonder why Neal didn’t trust his dad not to murder Henry. Yeah right. As far as I’m concerned, even Hook now looks comparably better than Rumple, and Hook is still a self-serving kinda villain.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
