Ohhhh...you are absolutely right! That makes sense and is actually really good. If only they had made it more big, and that in the episode where he became Rumplestiltskin, he still showed hating himself instead of hating how people treat him. If they just brought that and what you said out more, then it would make me believe more that he could not believe Belle. And Belle also had a great point that the spell was working so it was obviously true love, I guess he just...had too deep a hatred for himself.slave2moonlight wrote:I gotta disagree that he didn't hate himself before the curse. But, as usual, it seems that he hated himself because of the way he was treated by others. That seems to be something most people who don't have such an issue just don't "get", possibly even the writers of the show. That's why I can understand HIS side of it and also not wanting to lose his power, which was all he had and all he had ever had that caused people to treat him with some respect.
I understand that they are using Disney films and characters, maybe even as a starting point. It's supposed to be like...the original fairy tales, the Disney versions, and this show, are all the same, but we're showing you how it "really" happened. It would take a peasant Belle, a prince who's an actual Beast, and a non-dead fairy godmother to be better and make me accept that, but whatever.
I forgot though, I think Gaston should have had either a red, or perhaps brownish yellow outfit, like his colors in the film. I think he had red when he stormed the castle (lol I just got it like the movie but without the mob), but in the beginning he had blue which is a giant no because that was always Belle and the Beast's "we're good people and have this color in common" color and blue is just so not Gaston.
You know, at first I thought the whole "it's just a cup" thing was a joke about how people might think it was the enchanted objects but in reality they were just objects, lol, but I guess he said that just to set up how later it was more than just a cup.
But I was wondering if when the queen said, I forget exactly what she said but something like "You shouldn't kiss your master/the one holding you captive. What kind of message is that?" was poking fun at people saying Beauty and the Beast has that stockholm syndrome bad message for girls! I don't know if it was trying to say that, or if they thought that was true or not, but I wonder if that was the point. Obviously it isn't true anyway because he lets her go in both the original movie and this episode.
I feel David satying with Katherine is unfortunately a plothole/bad writing. They really should give him something that makes it hard for him to break away from her. Maybe he's staying with her because she's the only one who knows his past, but that need to make that clear, like he keeps asking her about his past and we see it's obvious that's why he feels he must stay with her. Or heck, they could have used the pregnancy plot twist and have her actually get pregnant, after he and Mary Margaret already kissed and got together. As for Red Ridinghood, the thing that bothers me is she's so old. She should at least look as young as Cinderella but even then they should have found a young teenager. The slutty thing kinda makes sense to me since everyone sexualizes Little Red Ridinghood and it's actually a legitimate practice because the original story always was a metaphor about getting in bed with a sexy man who turns out to be a montsrous wolf in disguise. But yes, I liked Cinderella's character better here, too, if that's what you meant.slave2moonlight wrote:And, yeah, David is very frustrating. Hard to understand why he doesn't leave the pseudo wife to be with Snow, and I liked Cinderella better in this episode than I have in the past, too. I haven't been too thrilled about the Red Riding Hood casting myself (or that she is supposed to be slutty, though it IS a funny take on the character), but that's cuz I have a thing for Red Riding Hoods and that story in general, for obvious reasons.