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Do your bookmarks have “www.” in them? In general, “www.” is no longer necessary for websites.
Yep. Old bookmarks.
[adrotate group="5"]Forgot to add this: Even though I couldn’t get to oncepodcast.com, at first I could get to noodle.mx and could get into oncepodcast.com by clicking on the Once link on the noodle.mx page. But now none of those links appear, and noodle.mx is blank too.
I had the same problem, using Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X and Firefox and Chrome on Linux. There was no error message or “File not found” – just a blank page. I’m able to get in now if I type the URL as “https://oncepodcast.com” but I still get the blank page if I use bookmarks or include”www” in the URL, such as “http://www.oncepodcast.com”.
I thought this episode was OK but had some flaws. Even though it wasn’t great, there were several things I liked and one that balances on the cusp of like/dislike.
Like/Dislike – Like Keb and Angiebell, I sometimes like it when the show embraces its camp to have a little fun, provided they don’t over do it. I liked the humor of Bo Peep being the evil warlord but I thought it undercut the sense of drama that they tried to achieve in those scenes, particularly David’s description of his father.
Like – I love how they use visual cues to tie together recurring themes in different episodes. “White Out” was written by Jane Espenson, who also wrote the second season episode, “We Are Both”. A powerful scene near the end of “We Are Both” showed Regina standing alone in front of the door of her house as Henry walked away with David after she let him go. The scene near the end of “White Out” perfectly mirrored that earlier scene by showing Regina and Henry together in front of the door after she let him into the house. The scene from Season Two was shot from the outside, looking into the house at Regina in the doorway while the scene from “White Out” was shot from the inside, looking out toward Henry and Regina in the doorway.
Like – The scenes between Emma and Elsa were great. I thought Jennifer Morrison’s performance was excellent.
Like – It was fun to see that Storybrooke does indeed have power lines coming into town but I wonder how the curse prevents the local Maine power company from noticing the hundreds of megawatts being sucked off their grid! The scene with Snow at the generator was also fun. I don’t think it was as really out of charcter as some folks seem to think but was just a humorous reminder that even someone as good-natured as Snow White can get cranky when she’s so tired. In the fun-to-speculate-but-not-really-relevant-to-the-story category, I couldn’t help but notice that generator only
looked big enough to power a few buildings. I wonder if there were
other backup generators for the rest of the town?No….I’m saying Regina intervened with what Fate was going to fix for her….Regina was in the wrong place at wrong time…had she not been there, Fate would have fixed itself. But the “Good” Regina spared Marian’s life by saving her….I think that makes up for her killing her originally.
But Beware Marian, because Fate is gonna be “Final Destination” for you.
Why should we assume this hypothetical “Fate” exists or that it somehow implies that some events in one timeline have to be present in another timeline? I do recall that when we first met the spinsters who raised Rumple in “Think Lovely Thoughts” they were in some ways reminiscent of two of the three Fates from Greek mythology but that was never definitely established. “Fate” is an excuse invoked by those who who choose to do the easy or the selfish thing instead of the hard work of changing things. Emma would be a very poor heroine indeed if she had followed that prescription.
Given that Sean wasn’t made a regular cast member I am becoming quite suspicious that Regina’s HEA involves Robin at all. It really might just be a full heart and Henry.
I agree. I think the whole Robin Hood plot may have just been another “speed bump” for Regina’s character development. She may get a happy ending in the form of a romance with someone else, or or with no one (although it would be nice if she did eventually find someone.)
I do think Rumple and Regina will probably both earn happy endings. But I suspect if the show had ended after just two seasons, they might have gone with that finale of Regina sacrificing herself and not saved her. Likewise, if the third season had been the end, I think they might have shown us the same finale we saw but without the scene of Hook arriving in New York, so Rumple would have sacrificed himself. I wonder if they’ll ever reveal if they might have made such plans?
For what it’s worth, here are my thoughts on some of the topics raised.
1. I agree that the idea that “everyone” gets a happy ending applies only to the main characters. Obviously, there’s no way to give a happy ending to the guy Rumple turned into a snail, or to the villagers massacred by Regina, or to their loved ones. Not even all the regular characters will get a happy ending. Neal didn’t. Graham didn’t. There may yet be more losses.
2. I suspect they are going to be more creative in how they dish out happy endings than most of the fan conversations seem to imply. Remember, we’ve been told repeatedly, “Your happy ending may not be what you think it will be.” This avoids the problem of what seem to be mutually exclusive happy endings, e.g. Marion vs Regina. One of them doesn’t have to “lose” in order for the other to “win”. It’s quite possible that Marion or Regina or both could find a happy ending without Robin.
3. On a related note, I was glad to see that Sunday night’s episode seemed to be somewhat defusing the whole idea of a Marion-Robin-Regina triangle and instead gave us a Robin Hood who made the honorable choice while giving us Regina’s disappointment as an opportunity for more struggle and growth of her character. She was clearly tempted to fall back into her old habits but managed to resist in the end and save Marion. I think her story remains interesting so long as she continues to take two steps forward and one step back, which provides a mechanism to study her character.
4. I don’t think Emma is at fault in any way. She saved an innocent woman’s life! That’s a good thing. Period. If that causes an inconvenience to Regina’s social life, that’s a pretty trivial price to pay. I don’t understand why almost everyone is assuming the Star Trek model of time travel in which changing the timeline is a terrible thing that must be avoided. There are plenty of other SF stories in which changing the timeline for the better is the main goal. When we’re dealing with a fictional activity like time travel, we don’t have to be bound by one particular interpretation of it which says there is some “Fate” that shouldn’t be changed.
I made a quick plot of the ratings for the first and last episodes of each season, based upon the numbers given in RG’s earlier post:
I second all of Keb’s ideas! Especially Henry talking to Belle and to Rumple about Neal. Except for a brief scene last year, we never got to see much of Neal and Belle talking about Rumple. They had so much in common in terms of both trying to bring out the good in him that it’s a shame we never got to see more of them comparing their experiences. The same goes for Henry talking to his dad about how to cope with an evil parent. I would have loved to have seen Henry tell Neal how much progress Regina had made and compare his experience to what Baelfire went through with Rumple. Maybe Henry and Belle can have that conversation.
I’m hoping to see continued growth in Regina’s character. Obviously she was upset about the return of Marian in the season finale but I hope they don’t arrange some deus ex machina death for Marian just to put Regina where “Fate” says she should be.
I want to see Regina struggle to be good in the face of her latest disappointment but eventually come to realize that Robin and Marian had a life together while Regina really only dated him for a few months or so (they didn’t even like each other much during the forgotten year in the Enchanted Forest.) Overcoming this kind of setback is what should eventually lead Regina to her own Happy Ending. I hope Henry will remind her of how far she has come and will play peacemaker between Regina and Emma so that Regina gets over her anger and realizes that Emma did a good thing by saving Marian.
I don’t know how they will incorporate the characters from Frozen, but I’m looking forward to it. I really want to know if Emma and Henry saw Frozen while they were in New York and I want to see how they and the other residents of Storybrooke react to the appearance of characters from such a recent story instead of classic tales (I know Frozen was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale but the the costume at the end of the season finale suggests they are going to be following the Disney movie which is very different than the original story.) It’s quite a change to be dealing with characters who didn’t exist (in our world) just a couple of years ago!
