Episode 7: Heartless
Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White and Josh Dallas as David
And we are back to having a sleeping curse in play. This time it’s a shift based curse on the Charmings. If Snow is awake then David is asleep and vice-versa. It’s rather clever. Too bad the rest of the episode hinged on being boring aside from the puppy. What happened to Charming’s dog?
The past section rewrites Snow and David’s first meeting so instead of meeting when Snow robbed him, now they actually have their first encounter when Snow got captured by a bounty hunter. Why? Why retcon this? Is it so they have more True Love to their story because they literally drown in true love mythos.
So show of hands, who sick of Belle and Rumple’s toxicity? I hate that they take up so much screen time. The show murdered their relationship because it needed Rumple to always be in the villain position but they can’t make Belle a doormat so it’s sucks to watch them. You can’t root for them.
Emma and Hook are getting boring since more of their scenes are just pep talks. And that just leave the Charming who are too perfect but now they are curse. So I guess that makes them compelling? Not really.
Liked the twist on the curse and the puppy. Also the line about the Dying of the Light reference. Sure they were referring to the poem but my mind went to the George R.R Martin book.
Episode 8: I’ll be your Mirror
Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen and Jared S. Gilmore as Henry
Well don’t the Charmings just adjust super well? No curse is going to get in the way of making pancakes. And hey and the curse allows to actually care for their baby whom they haven’t talked much about this season but at least baby Neal is there, still a baby and yet Henry keeps on aging.
This episode has Regina and Emma getting trapped in the Mirror world with the Dragon. The Dragon seems like he has a compelling backstory which we will probably never see. EQ tries to pull a Darth Vader on Henry when she gives him a Sophie’s choice which is kill the Dragon, whose heart she holds or let the Dragon, who can turn into a dragon, kill Emma and Regina. Henry opts for that heroic third option which is the smash the mirror which works and not just taking the heart from EQ and telling the Dragon to stop. They never do things like that. Maybe heart stealing is that fourth option. In anycase since Regina has had a light and dark battle in her soul, is she Kylo Ren?
In other plots, Aladdin steals the portal wand so that Belle can go to the Enchanted Forest because Rumple is a mammoth asshole who wants to use the Shears of Destiny on their son so the kid won’t hate him or something? Rumple forces Belle to stay and now he wants Zelena killed since she has leverage on him because he can’t hurt her. Just sick of the Rumple plot. The show loves the actor but they can’t do much with character without constantly making him an ass-face.
Also Emma is going on and on about her death again. This season lacks focus
Also RIGHT before EQ throws Hooks I swear there some weird effect in the water. Maybe it’s a subliminal message?
subliminal message or weird effect or compassion error?