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The new teaser trailer for Disney’s live-action Beauty & the Beast looks better than 4 seasons of Rumbelle combined (excluding season 1). I suppose there’s no beating a classic.
[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
The first teaser trailer has been released. It doesn’t show very much (so it definitely does it’s job of teasing), but it looks absolutely beautiful.
Very beautiful and mesmerizing!
While waiting for this film to come out next spring, I highly recommend the 2014 French live-action version of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). You can find it on youtube with English subtitles.
"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
Maybe because he just got done with an arc where a God wanted Belle’s baby? And also nabbing Belle is the only leverage someone else would have against the most powerful person in the world.
Yes, seeing how Hades just used Belle and their unborn baby as leverage over Rumple, it isn’t all that surprising from our perspective. We have more knowledge than Rumple did at that point. However, the only things Rumple knew when the portal opened were (a) Hades had already been defeated thanks to Zelena, and (b) Henry and his mommies all wanted that Olympian crystal back. He likely thought the portal was some form of magic created either by Henry’s power as the author or by Henry’s mothers’ combined magic. Rumple didn’t yet know the Charmings were stuck in A Land of Untold Stories, so he had no reason to suspect Mr. Hyde was the one targeting him. Moreover, as much as we collectively give the Charmings a hard time for throwing Belle under the bus (which they did), Rumple had no reason yet to think anyone else besides them knew of Belle being in that box.
What happened to true love being the most powerful magic? Love is strength remember! Even if Rumple didn’t think anyone would go after Belle and instead would go after the crystal, he should still get Belle first. Even though he thinks he needs the crystal, he actually doesn’t! That’s his own flaw sure, and he probably really did think someone would take the crystal. But it’s his lust for power that makes him think that way. He’s more worried someone would take the crystal over taking his wife! If he thought about his wife first, his first instinct would be to protect her, regardless of whether he thought she was in immediate danger. Like if your wife or husband was next to you (in a box or in person), and you knew a portal was coming, wouldn’t your first instinct be to grab her/him? Idk, I just think the writers deliberately wanted us to see Rumple going for the power before Belle. It mirrors his choice for power over his son when he let Bae get sucked into the portal.
100% agreed. Everyone knows Rumple is a man who makes the same mistake over and over. Rumple already tried TLK but it failed. He probably thinks it’s because Belle doesn’t want to be with him anymore (as Emma expressed). Even after Belle spelled it out for him when she banished him, Rumple still doesn’t seem to grasp the real reason TLK didn’t work (i.e. because his true love is power).
Which makes me feel like he truly hasn’t learned anything, and also makes me think Rumple is in line to lose someone else he loves yet again which will drive him completely to the side of darkness.
While I don’t think he really has learned anything (seeing how he keeps choosing power over Belle), I think he really does justify it by telling himself (and Belle in the box) that everything he’s done, he’s done to help her and the baby. However, I think there will come a time when Rumple will finally choose Belle and the baby over the power and that is when TLK will work. I don’t think he’ll get to experience a happy ending, but he’ll probalby die a hero or something (again).
"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
So if the “heroes” know that Rumple’s doing what he’s doing to wake Belle, then why are they so against him instead of trying to help him find a safer way? Do they really care that little about Belle that they’re willing to leave her trapped in a sleeping curse forever?
No, they don’t care at all about Belle. As has been mentioned before, the Charmings only care about people who’re in their inner circle. Snow threw Belle under the bus to save Hook when she blabbed to Mr. Hyde that the dark one found love and that his wife is pregnant. Snow just couldn’t keep her big fat mouth shut. She planted the idea in Hyde’s mind to target the dark one’s wife and unborn child. Ugh!
"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
Is anyone else super annoyed that Snow basically threw Belle under the bus to save Hook, Charming and her own skin? (I doubt she gives a darn about Zelena). Snow just couldn’t keep her big fat mouth shut and basically planted the idea in Hyde’s mind to target the dark one’s wife and unborn child. Ugh!
"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
Because in his mind the power is the more valuable of the two. Says a lot about Rumple at present, yes?
It does, so you’ll get no argument from me on this point. I was just trying to see it from Rumple’s perspective. He had a split second to choose: box or shard. He dove for the shard. However, his reason for doing so was probably (a) Pandora’s box was safe since the shard is the more powerful item and thus more likely to be stolen, and (b) he needed the shard to wake up his wife since TLK was never gonna work (in his mind anyway).
"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
So, I rewatched the scene. While Rumple is aware a portal was being opened as indicated by his monologue, I think he expected someone was trying to get hold of that all-powerful Olympian crystal. He didn’t know someone else was really after Pandora’s box. Also, thinking how Rumple often does, who wouldn’t target the shard over the box? Rumple probably reasoned the box would be safe, since he thought only the Scooby gang knew Belle was in it. He didn’t yet know they were in A Land of Untold Stories. Why would Rumple expect someone to be after Belle when he knew Henry, Emma, and Regina were all after the most powerful object ever devised? In conclusion, while Rumple did effectively “choose power” over Belle in that scene by going for the shard over the box, I’m pretty sure he never expected someone would kidnap Belle when a more powerful object was in the same vicinity. Perhaps Rumple’s own love of power (and thus the crystal) blinded him to seeing the possibility that someone would seek to kidnap his wife to have leverage over the dark one.
"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
Honestly this show “Jumped the Shark” for me when they brought in Elsa / Frozen characters in Season 4. I loved seasons 1-3 so much…I just keep watching hoping it will get good again… but this might be it for me. They wrote the first three seasons centered around this curse that Rumple cast to find his son, who turned out to be Henry’s dad/Emma’s true love… then they killed him! When Emma and Hook went back in time at the end of Season 3B and encountered Rumple… I thought it would tie back in to saving Baelfire/Neal, but nope. The plot has never made any sense to me since the death of Neal. The whole point / the whole premise of the show is gone. If you watch any of the episodes from season 1 – 3 compared to seasons 4-6… the quality has taken a nose dive. I might sit season 6 out… it’s just too frustrating to watch.
100% agree with everything written here.
"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
And yes, subtle foreshadowing ain’t the strong suit of this show. Ugh that window set dressing; doesn’t help that they framed the show so that the wedding dress is in full view between Hook and Emma.
Yes, it was quite heavy-handed, unless it’s a red herring (which I very much doubt at this point). Hook is like a coackroach on this show. He could probably survive a nuclear explosion.
"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
For better or worse I enjoyed more of this arc than I have enjoyed anything about OUAT in a long time. Guess that means I have to my heart broken all over again when S6 inevitably goes sideways… Great.
You did get to use your knowledge of Greek myth, so there’s that. For me, however, I didn’t enjoy much about S5 — probably because S5 was mostly focused on Hook. The finale, by contrast, was not, so I enjoyed it a lot more. I liked all of the Emma-Regina scenes. I also liked the Rumple-Emma-Regina dynamic. I liked the Snow-Regina scenes. Even Henry and Violet were cute (when Henry wasn’t being an annoying teen). However, I could’ve done without all the new characters and the forced CS scene in front of the wedding dress. *twitch*
"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
