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Please remember William Faulkner.
The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
The world is not black and white or good and bad. When the supposed outcome is certain, the journey needs to be so much more then that. I liked parts of the finale, but a lot of it felt like pandering and lazy storytelling, but hey that may just be me. That smoke monster may just surprise me yet.
My friend just texted me
And she told me that Regina’s last name was Mills (I know that) and that the Evil Queen’s family was a Miller’s family! (I had not realized that!). Well done show.
Finally watched OUaT
I have thoughts, they have probably already been said, but I still want/need to share them.
I was disappointed with the episode. Not because the story wasn’t good, but because it wasn’t executed well. I know what they were trying to portray. Regina was an abused child, who found real love, but was “betrayed” and thus lost her love which in turn made her evil. However, this wasn’t shown properly! The only way I really got this was because of the acting, not the actual story arc or the dialogue. Ask yourself this, why is it that Ruby (who is a wolf and actually killed a WHOLE bunch of people) gets all the sympathy, but Regina doesn’t? Because Ruby doesn’t control it and Regina supposedly does. However, she doesn’t. She is not in control of her hate. THAT is what this episode was supposed to prove. Imagine how much pain she must have felt and been through, growing up with an abusive mother and a father who let it all happen (frankly, it’s the stuff serial killers are made off). All of that pain can quite easily turn into uncontrollable anger. The moment she lost that control was when Snow told her she had shared her secret with the one person she fears the most and had thus “betrayed” her. Lana acted this perfectly (and in some of the reviews that I’ve read this is what is picked up upon), but the story that came before wasn’t good enough.
This is all my opinion of course, but I truly wish it has been done better. This episode hit very close to home and maybe that’s why I felt it so strongly. I have experienced that transference of anger and trust me, it can go entirely unnoticed. Here are some random thoughts on the episode.
- That scene between Regina and Mary Margaret was some powerful shit man. Jeez! When Regina stroked her face and then grabed it and revealed that she knew Mary Margaret hasn’t killed Kathryn. BAM. Acting genius. On both sides. It rivaled the Mr. Gold/Regina jail scene, which I still say is the best scene of this show.
- August is Henry grown up. Right? I mean, look at how he looks at Emma! With so much admiration… I really need to stop speculating on this show.
- Ginnifer Goodwin is frakking awesome. So are Jennifer and Lana. The three of them in that scene where Mary Margaret is questioned by the DA? Good stuff.
- Regina’s indignant attitude in the scene with the shovel is just so funny! She like “Moi!? Never!”. Even though everybody knows that she did do it. Lol.
- Mr. Gold. You conniving bastard. I still say you’re the true source of evil.
- Was I the only one that never even for a second thought Kathryn was dead? I don’t know, I was just never actually concerned, I knew she’d turn back up.
Anyway, long post is long. Lemme reblog some awesome gifs now!
I’ve got a theory…
(It could be bunnies! Oh shit no, wrong show).
About one miss Regina Mills. Who else did you think ;).
Not about the Evil Queen. The Evil Queen is not difficult to figure out. In fact, if you haven’t figured her out yet, I really wonder what show you have been watching. The Evil Queen is a woman who was hurt. She lost something and it made her bitter which translated into evil. Snow White had something to do with the pain and thus the queen now targets her. Evidence? All.over.the.place. Most glaringly the letter Snow writes the Queen when the Hunter has to kill her. But the latest episode, Heart of Darkness, clearly shows how losing all the love in your heart can make you become evil. Snow was on the same path the Queen took and Charming aka Love saved her. Plain and simple. I don’t need “Stable Boy” to spell it out. Although I do wonder about the specifics, knowing the full story will in no way change my mind in regards to how I feel about this character.
No. I am talking about Madame Mayor. Miss Regina Mills. Who is desperately trying to prevent Emma from breaking her curse and doing everything she can to keep the promise she made, to destroy everyone’s happiness. However! Wasn’t this supposed to be her happy ending? I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit. Some people have speculated that her heart is also missing or in a box. I like that idea. For me personally, and let me bold that, personally, I’ve got a different idea.Because it is my opinion and in all honesty, I don’t really trust the writers of this show, they seem to villainize Regina every chance they get, yet they present us with all the evidence of a beautifully, broken character. But lets get to the point.
My theory is this, Regina can not be loved. Not because she is unlovable, nobody is unlovable, but because of something else. Maybe something that happened in the fairytale land or maybe because her curse had a price. She wanted her happy ending and for everybody else to have no happiness, well she succeeded in the second part, but in doing so, she got tossed in with the group? It would certainly explain Henry’s apathy towards her and the whole town’s attitude towards their mayor. She has technically not done anything bad yet in the town, well, until Heart of Darkness (supposedly!!!). I also think Snow alluded to this in her letter. See, this letter is important. I need to look it up again and definitely transcribe it.
The reason for my theory, is that I need an explanation. I need a plausible explanation for all this weird behaviour. They go out of their way to explain everything else, but not this and it bothers me. Like a lot. But then again, it has to be tied to The Evil Queen and so maybe the next few episodes will provide me with the explanation. Just wanted to put my two cents out there.
Anonymous asked:
Do you think it's possible they could make swanqueen happen or is it just fairytales?
I think anything is possible. In television, definitely. I also think it wouldn’t be out of left field, cause the set up is there. For sure. Only true love’s kiss can break the curse? I mean come on.
Do I think they’ll actually let it happen. I am sceptical. Very sceptical. The track record is not very good here. However, they could easily, easily make it happen. Imagine if they did! The endless possibilities for love and redemption and novelty and good story-telling. Gosh, it would make a so far slightly mediocre show with good actors, brilliant. In my opinion of course. I have several scenarios in my head in which it could work nicely, lol.
So, is it a fairytale? No. Is it a possibility? We can all dream, right?
Is it bad that the more evil Regina gets the more I love her?
Everybody just seems so meek and subservient next to her.
Her interaction with Kathryn was so telling. Kathryn saying she wasn’t a good friend hurt her, so by the time she came around again to apologize the damage was already done. And during that second talk you could literally see her face go from stone-faced mayor who is being blind-sided by her friend to evil plans brewing inside my gorgeous head. Lol. I couldn’t describe it any other way.
1st scene, me: “Finally! See? Regina loves Henry! She IS a good mom! FU haters, I was right!”
2nd scene, me: “Of course they had to have Emma out-mom Regina. Of course. FU show!”
So many things wrong with these scenes…
1st: Henry, how about a little gratitude and compassion for the mother who is trying to make you smile… with a video game that as it turns out, you absolutely love! Who clearly feels terrible about your book being lost? Who you still don’t believe she didn’t destroy it on purpose or even got it from the super-secret hiding place?
2nd: What should’ve happened when Henry got his book back: “I guess mom was telling the truth after all, about not having the book…”
What we got instead: “Great! Operation Cobra [in which we destroy my mother, who has just given me a video game that I love and has been completely exonerated of all blame regarding the lost book] can resume!!”
Seriously show? Seriously?
This is really starting to bother me about the show, especially considering how hard Regina works for her happy ending (especially with regards to her relationship with Henry) and how Emma seems to get good things literally because she asked for them (birthday wish, finding the book).
It comes down to the Show vs. Tell thing. We’re told that Regina is evil/bad/wrong/awful/horrible but shown a flawed person who is desperately trying to hold on what matters to her. We’re told that Emma is good/wholesome/awesome/right, but her choices rarely show that.
Heroism is not simply being nice to people it’s easy to be nice to. It’s also about making hard choices — taking real risks and making real sacrifices — because it’s the right thing to do.
The only time Emma makes a real decision that reveals heroism is in episode 1x08 (“Desperate Souls”), where she risked herself to save her nemesis because it’s the right thing to do. It would have been easy for her to walk away, but she didn’t. Wait, I forgot episode 1x05 (“That Still, Small Voice”) where she volunteers to be lowered into the mine to get Henry, not the least because she empathizes with Regina of all people and truly responded to her plea for help.
Funny how in both cases where Emma shows what she’s made of, it’s when she does something for Regina.
I want to see Emma making real choices between Dumbledore says “what is right and what is easy.”
I’m not asking for Emma to be perfect or without flaws. Hello, my favorite character is Regina! But I need to see more complexity and more awareness when it comes to the choices she makes.
For me, the biggest problem I have with this show is the inherent judgments it makes on parenting. I remember listening to a commentary on one of the LOST dvds and the showrunners said that one of their biggest themes was “parents”. Small wonder, then, that OUaT features that largely in its outlook.
I keep going back to one of the first episodes when Regina tells Emma that she “changed every diaper, tended to every scraped knee”. Regina’s done all the work in making Henry a little person, you know? She’s done the parenting thus far.
We’re supposed to believe that she’s a terrible parent, but I just don’t see this. We’re supposed to believe that blood bonds are greater than the adoptive bonds between Regina and Henry. But he’s a little person now, with his own thoughts and feelings and views and personality. And who engendered that? Not Emma, that’s for sure.
I think I’m preternaturally disposed to dislike Emma because she’s taking the word of a ten year old child over Regina. And yes, I’m aware that Regina’s the Evil Queen, but in this world, she’s also a mother. And she’s trying. I feel like Emma hasn’t really done that much thus far to be a parent. It makes me a little resentful, not to mention the harmful and pernicious ideas about adoption that it raises.
I want Emma to make good choices. I want her to be a hero. But not like this, with secretive meetings and outdoing Regina as a mother.
Being a parent is really difficult. The reason I’m not one is because I just don’t feel I have much to offer a child. Yet. And perhaps I’ll adopt one day or even have my own children. I don’t know. But I want to be that child’s hero. I want to make good choices and “do the right thing”.
I want Emma to do that too.
You guys give me all kinds of feelings. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I gotta cut in on this and agree with everything that has been said. I know we all have a love for Regina, so it could be said that our judgement is clouded and perhaps it is. However, that is clearly besides the point in this issue here.
From day one I have had a massive dislike for Henry. As was said above, it’s the difference between what we are shown and what we told. We are told Regina is evil, by many people, but mainly Henry. What we are shown is a mother who is strict and controlling, but loves her son. How that translates in my mind? Regina is the mother and Emma is the cool aunt. The aunt who gets to come in from out of town, do cool stuff with him, be on Henry’s side and generally just pander to his ideas. Naturally this is overcompensation from Emma’s side, but what is overlooked is the message that this sends. Namely that adoption is bogus and blood relations is all that matters. Emma is Henry’s real parent, therefore he loves her, Regina is not, therefore he doesn’t.
For very personal reasons, I have an extreme problem with this, a massive, huge one. Yes, yes, the evil queen is evil and yes, yes, Regina does evil things, but as I have said before, until we are specifically shown otherwise, none of those things have envolved Henry. And why would they, all that we have been shown is Regina who is a mother and who loves her son. The fact that the creators like to focus on “parents” only makes it that much worse! At the end of the day, the truth of the matter is that parents aren’t always heroes. To small children maybe, but as those children grow up, they resist against what they’ve always known to be their main source of authority, which is their parents. Parents are flawed and do the best they can, blood related or not. If this is some kind of twisted way of implying the book represents Henry’s impending puberty, they are going about it in a fucked up way.
My point is and what it has always been, is that Henry’s character makes NO sense to me. He is the catalyst of this story, yet nothing he does seems to fit. He only thinks his mother is evil because of a book!? I get that he has a big imagination and I understand that he hero-worships Emma, THOSE things I understand. His continual refusal and dismissal of Regina as his mother, I do not. I simply can not believe that a child who was raised by a single mother, no matter how strict, would behave that way towards their parent. Because lets not forget that nothing has shown us that she has ever done anything to Henry, there is no canon evidence for this, so where.does.the.attitude.come.from!?
(Source: docbrucebanner)
WANT.
You mean that girl I met on the road.
(Source: bloodydifficult, via evilneverfeltsogood)
OUaT Thoughts
I absolutely loved this episode. Here are some reasons why.
- Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney story. I don’t know about the fairytale because I simply haven’t read everything about it, but I would say it will always reside in the top 3 for me. Making Rumpelstiltskin the Beast was ingenious and I actually greatly enjoyed how it worked in the confides of the show. Even better is how they worked it out. Here is one instance where the fairytale world mirrored the Storybrooke world, I wonder what the significance of that will be…
- I gotta be honest though, Emilie de Ravin does nothing for me. No matter who they would’ve gotten I would never have liked her as Belle, but the poor girl truly is no match for Robert Carlyle.
- There was minimal Henry. I am sorry, but in my book that always make for a better episode.
- Emma showed up with her awesome WTF face again and actually did really well being the Sheriff. The scene with all the girls in the dinner, Ashley, Ruby, Mary Margaret and Emma was a great showcase for female comradery. Now if only it wasn’t only over men. I do hope they show more of those friendships.
- Mary Margaret really is an amazing character. Seeing the happiness of a couple that can be together freely hurt her so visibly. She does deserve better and I love that she knows that, but she also can not stay away from David. For now, this conflict is still working well for me.
- The scene between Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin and Regina in the jail was by far the best scene this show has shown us. Lana and Robert act the shit out of every scene they are in, but put them together and you get some mighty fine television. We now also know that Mr. Gold is fully aware of what is going on. The plot thickens and twists. Good stuff!
- Speaking of little Miss Evil, I know she is my absolute favourite so I am biased, but this episode only highlighted why Regina Mills is the best character on this show. The more evil she gets, the more I love her and the more I want to know about her. I won’t go into it too much, cause really I could write a book on this character, but her face throughout this whole episode was magnificent. She concocted a little plan and it worked and she revelled in her victory. Quite a sight to see. Also, can I be that nurse?
The main thing for me with this episode was that the plot was actually really interesting. The introduction of Belle and the character arc of Rumpelstiltskin was the main plot of this episode, but none of the other characters were forgotten and almost all the plotlines were advanced. OUaT has shown potential to be a great show, but this is the first time (IMO) it was actually displayed throughout the entire episode.
