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There has to be something else going on here. I still think Blue is evil and the black fairy has reasons her her behavior.
#ForeverSneakyFairy
[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
Happy Belated Thanksgiving to you American watchers! Over the break, I watched 6×8. I have a lot of thoughts about that episode, but here is one main observation from a scene in I’ll Be Your Mirror between Emma, Regina, and Henry:
Henry: I don’t even know if she likes me anymore. I don’t even know how to act around her.
Emma: You act like yourself. Never compromise who you are. Got it?
Henry: Okay.
Emma: Now, I’m not always gonna be here for this stuff, so you got to hang on to these gems.Does that scene sound familiar? It did to me. It heavily resembles another conversation Emma had with Henry in a deleted scene from S5b about Henry’s temptation to re-write history so that Emma had never killed Cruella.
Emma: Cruella, she was going to hurt you. And yes, does it tear me up every day thinking was there another way I could have saved you? But, I didn’t have a choice. I never wanted to hurt anyone Henry, and I know you don’t either.
Henry: That’s the only reason I got the pen, the only reason I kept it a secret.
Emma: We’re family. We can’t have secrets. We have to share.
Henry: I’m sorry.
Emma: I know. I know. You were just trying to help. Henry, never compromise your soul, never, not even for me. I couldn’t live with myself.It’s as if Emma were speaking to Henry directly from her own first-hand experience. I think she has regret about when she compromised her own soul. As Merlin warned, he foresaw Emma tarnishing her soul by choosing to tether Hook to Excalibur. Emma has been lowering her standards to make her relationship with Hook work. Her submerging her real self to be with Hook is something that astute fans of Emma have noticed ever since she and Hook got together after Neal died. The real Emma Swan never would have looked at Hook as a good father figure for Henry.
So why is Emma so concerned about Henry never compromising himself? On a meta level, it’s as if the writers were hinting at their own awareness and Emma’s awareness of her having changed for the worse as a result of having a romance with a man who is wrong for her. Thematically, that scene from 6×8 also has a lot in common with another scene between Emma, Henry, and Regina in 5×5 Dreamcatchers:
Henry: Hey… Moms. I was, uh… getting in the Camelot spirit. You know… trying to understand this world.
Emma: By sword fighting?
Henry: W-well, Sir Morgan, Violet’s father, had a little advice for me to fit in. That’s all. Trouble is, I’m not sure if I’m ever gonna be good at this knight stuff.
Emma: Well, if you’re not, you’re not, but… changing so someone likes you never works. I mean, I… I liked your dad because he was always himself.When Emma recalled what being in a relationship with Neal was like, she remembered how it felt to be with the right person. He was always himself with her, and Emma knows from experience what it feels like to be in a healthy and loving relationship. Neal and Emma never had to pretend because they were both just themselves around each other: two street kids who found a home together. Emma also knows that a relationship never works out if you have to pretend to be someone you’re not (which I predict foreshadows Emma and Hook not working out since both have had to deny their real selves for the sake of their romance).
I know people will disagree since it’s also been foreshadowed in a very heavy-handed way that Hook would propose to Emma (e.g. the wedding dress in the window display in the season five finale). I might suggest, however, that it could be there as a red herring to appease fans of CS (in the short term). Of course, Emma wearing Hook’s ring around her neck is also like Chekhov’s gun waiting to go off, so I do think Hook will propose sometime in season six. Their living together also seems like a step on the road to an engagement. The writers are having Hook, Emma, and Henry all living under the same roof, making us question if they’ll really become a family. The other thing that 6×8 put forward is another, stronger, already established family unit of three: Emma, Henry, and Regina.
Henry: You may not see it, but I’m strong, because my moms taught me that family makes you stronger than you’ll ever be by yourself.
Henry has stated that he doesn’t see Hook as part of his family. Also, Emma wearing Hook’s murder-victim ring around her neck instead of the swan pendant seems to be an obvious visual symbol of how much Emma has lowered her standards to be with Hook. Emma has now warned Henry three times not to compromise himself, not even for her, which seems to come from Emma’s own regret. In 6×8, Henry showed just how strong he is in comparison with Emma by refusing to compromise himself and do as the Evil Queen bade him do, even to save his mothers. It makes me think it will be Henry who helps Emma ultimately choose not to be with Hook in the end. Just maybe Emma will reject Hook’s proposal and go back to wearing the swan pendant, which was born out of true love, and which ultimately stands as a symbol of the real Emma Swan herself. Anyway, one can hope.
"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
Emma’s under a sleeping curse? It could explain Morpheus being under the hood (sorta).
"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
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"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
While I could have imagined seasons 1-3a Emma wanting another child with Neal, there is no way I could imagine her wanting one with the pirate, especially after he tried to send her son to hell. I just cannot even take it with this show anymore. I’m officially done with it, even though I’ve been over it for awhile. Emma is just a TV character and JMo is an actress who gets paid to promote the show and her character, but what about standing up for women and being a role model for impressionable girls and young women? I’m disappointed in her and the showrunners. Emma used to be an empowered heroine who stood up for the weak and never took crap from anyone. *shakes head in dismay*
"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
As a fan of Demelza, it was difficult to watch her feel second best to a woman like Elizabeth. While Elizabeth has gown on me, I still don’t like her nearly as much. Elizabeth has some good qualities, and she has grown as a person. Without giving away too much, the person who has surprised me the most this season has been Francis.
"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 writers should stay away from classic literature. They didn’t seem to understand the original coplex characterization of Edmond Dantès. To A&E, he’s just another misunderstood swashbuckling anti-hero with an English accent (which is strange since Edmond is supposed to be French).
I also thought it was really strange that he would be in a Land of Untold Stories. I don’t understand how no one seems to have heard of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I know the library was boarded up during the first dark curse, but I expected at least Belle to have heard of or read that novel, what with her being a librarian, bookworm and a walking, talking version of Google. She had read The Wizard of Oz for crying out loud!
Poor Henry doesn’t really seem to know about classics and so assumed Edmond would be in a book about fairytales. Talk about the SB school system failing its citizens. Has nobody in that town ever taken a world literature course? Probably not, since it doesn’t seem like anyone in that town ever went to university since Archie got his psychology degree from a curse. (Probably only Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Whale, who were both scientists in their lands, got some sort of higher education).
I just found it strange that nobody, except for Henry, even questioned if Edmond was in a book, to which Edmund replied “You won’t find me in there, my boy. I’m not important enough to have my own tale.” Is that a set up? Are we eventually going to see that all the characters who lived in A Land of Untold Stories actually already have their tales told in A Land Without Magic?
If so, what does that mean for Edmond since he died and his story finished differently from the way it did in Dumas’ classic novel? Does that mean the original manuscript of The Count of Monte Cristo changes, too? Where are the original manuscripts located — in the special reading room in the NYC public library or in the sorcerer’s mansion? I have so many questions, but sadly I don’t think A&E have answers to provide. That was probably the only time we’ll ever see Edmond.
"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
Lily’s Review http://www.tvguide.com/news/once-upon-a-time-recap-evil-queen-rumplestiltskin/?ftag=twtrsoshares
Lily Sparks: “The Evil Queen was fully half of Regina until basically a week ago. We’ve seen Regina and Mr. Gold square off many times in Storybrooke, and at no point was there really any flirting. They’ve had a fun, platonic rivalry as two worthy opponents jockeying for power, but considering Rumple had a passionate affair with Regina’s mom before she was born, sexual tension seemed a little squirmy. It wasn’t until last night’s episode that Rumple suddenly ogled The Evil Queen’s décolletage and then awkwardly sniffed her neck, and then suddenly The Evil Queen was acting extremely aggressive and in two scenes they had completely changed a relationship grown over five years. And in a way that made it less fun (and more squirmy) than the unique dynamic it was before.”
ALL of that, especially about Golden Queen. Do the writers not remember the following conversation?
"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
If it turns out to be the Blue Fairy in the hood, I will laugh out loud with glee.
"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
