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SillySymphony wrote:The last episode is currently my least favorite. Are we supposed to care for Kathryn? Not sure if we're to like her, despise her or just feel indifferent. The writers were going for likeability (I assume) in this episode, but I didn't care. Her fairy tale counterpart's backstory/love interest was the least engaging of the series. And "What Happened to Frederick" is just a dull title.
I didn't find it as boring as Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, but the whole episode I was pretty much waiting for something interesting to happen. I wish this episode would have come directly after 7.15am; I was rooting for MM/David then, but between then and now, I think a lot of people have lost interest. Kathryn isn't a bad person, and it seems cruel to lie to her for so long when David had no problem leaving her before he regained his (fake) memories.
But at the same time, she isn't a really interesting character and focusing on her most of the time didn't help anything.

Here's hoping Dreamy will bring the show back up to speed.
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Yeah, I agree totally with the last post.

As for the DVD at Target, I saw it but can easily see past episodes online. I will buy the show when it starts getting season releases, or I'll wait for the complete series set, but I don't want to get a DVD with just a few episodes.
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the dvd also came with a coupon for $5 for the season when it comes out.
still though $9, for 5 episodes and a coupon, still kinda high
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I really liked the last episode! I mean, the Lady of the Lake thing I find weird since King Arthur is actually kinda supposed to be real, but they never officially say it's her...it's just so obviously a steal from it though. Anyway, I actually liked Katherine when she became assertive and you really got what she was doing and how she wanted to better herself, as well as help the prince in fairy tale land.

But why did they make her lover a much younger than her high school boy? And randomly I wanted to say for a while now, I love the Mayor's office, I love how it's decorated, that's one classy lady lol. And now I super hate Regina along with liking her lol she was like Cinderella's stepmother in this episode, keys and all!
slave2moonlight wrote:I think it showed well enough that he hated both himself and how others treated him in the past. They are interrelated. One means the other, really. People aren't just born hating themselves.
No, but some people want to be different even though other people like them the way they are. Anyway, Rumplestiltskin had a wife and a kid, who I'm guessing loved him. If it is revealed his wife left him, which maybe she did, okay, but still, he groveled to people, but he didn't seem to hate himself. If he had some "sad reflecting" moments with him clearly hating himself, or some hateful dialogue of himself with the guy who made him Rumplestiltskin, okay. When he got his power, he almost seemed to love himself. So, I dunno. Your explanation is great, I just wish we actually got that more in the show. And once again, Belle was pointing out to him that if the kiss worked it was proof it was true love, so he needed to really super hate himself to be so blinded to the big proof there, which I don't think they built up enough.
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If your own life sucks, it makes you feel better, or if you really hate someone, it just makes you feel good to see they didn't get their perfectness you don't think they deserve. And then there are some people who perhaps like ruining other's happiness so much we probably can't understand it because we're not them and it's something in them we don't have. I hope not though. Maybe anyone can just get into that somehow.
slave2moonlight wrote:Well, my main problem was the whole thing with Mary Margaret. I didn't really like her attitude in this episode. I'm not sure why she thinks people would treat her any better if David had told Katherine about the affair, or that Katherine would have taken it any better. And, he really was just trying to spare Katherine's feelings. Is this some kind of female logic I'm missing? So, he ends his marriage for her and then she says it's not real and ends things with him too. Kind of a bitchy move there. I mean, there's no way for this to have gone nicely, and I think Mary Margaret should have just been glad that David was free of Katherine now. He's the one who had to leave his spouse, not her, so she was a bit hard on him in not realizing how difficult it would be, I think. (and, I do not condone "affairs", but there's a lot of evil witchery behind things that go on here, so I make an exception for these two; David certainly was lame to take so long with this).
I pretty much completely agree except for the last part since I think sometimes (or maybe a lot more often than we wish) people marry the wrong person and they find someone they love more, and it grows for a while before they finally realize they have to end their marriage. You wouldn't want to end your marriage before knowing you really love someone else, would you?

But anyway, yes, Mary Margaret was unreasonable, but there is a reason for it lol. And that is - show drama and keeping you hooked. In so, so, so many movies and shows, they break up characters for no good reason just to keep the show interesting. And it's stupid. I hate it. It's unecessary and it's obviously not what would really happen. Mary Margaret could and perhaps should have been mad at David for lying to her and Katherine, and she's a little unsure if she wants to be with a liar. But then she should have just said, "I'm mad at you, and I need some time away from you for a while." Not something as out of the blue over-dramatic as "we're destructive and can't be together". That doesn't make sense. They obviously have an unexplainable attraction to each other that they'll never lose and there's no reason to seperate over something so small that doesn't have much to do with their relationship having a particular problem.

But there is one thing, and that's that I finally realized why David couldn't leave Katherine for so long - because he didn't want to hurt her. I didn't think of that, lol. I guess it's because he didn't seem to give much of a sh*t about her, really. If they had shown that he had some more care for her, then that would've been a lot better.
SillySymphony wrote:The last episode is currently my least favorite. Are we supposed to care for Kathryn? Not sure if we're to like her, despise her or just feel indifferent. The writers were going for likeability (I assume) in this episode, but I didn't care. Her fairy tale counterpart's backstory/love interest was the least engaging of the series.
How about she's just a complex character and it's up to the viewer to decide how they feel about her? ;) I felt sympathetic toward her earlier when she was relieved about not having a baby because she could tell things weren't going well with David.
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@Disney Duster: That wasn't the Lady of the Lake, that was a siren, and Storybrooke Frederick is a gym teacher, not an actual student at the school :)
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Tae wrote:@Disney Duster: That wasn't the Lady of the Lake, that was a siren, and Storybrooke Frederick is a gym teacher, not an actual student at the school :)
Oh, he's the gym teacher! Whew! That's better! But I thought sirens were supposed to be half fish, and if not, I thought they had to be out in the sea, and sing? I know they say it's a siren but...well this was a weird thing to put in if it didn't come from a fairy tale. I don't know of any fairy tales with a siren rising out of a lake of magic water to draw men in.

Speaking of that, couldn't Prince James have just dipped his cantine into the water and run as soon as the siren appeared? I think they tried to make it seem fighting her was necessary but it really wasn't. If it was something magical at the bottom of her lake, that I could see.
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Shared on their Facebook page:
Once Upon a Time Scoop: Sebastian Stan's Mad Role Revealed
Sebastian Stan is going mad on Once Upon a Time.

As TVGuide.com first reported, the Captain America and Gossip Girl alum will guest-star in an upcoming episode of the ABC fairy tale drama. Details have now surfaced on his top secret role: He'll be playing Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. "In that episode, we find out how the Mad Hatter became mad," executive producer Edward Kitsis says, noting that Stan has been fantastic in the role.

Like the other tales the series has adapted, there will be a Once spin on Wonderland. "The first difference you'll notice is who the Mad Hatter was and his backstory. Then what Wonderland is and the changes of it is something we hope to explore also. We're hoping this tells you the story of the Mad Hatter, but also will leave you with questions about Wonderland."

In the Wonderland-themed episode titled "Hat Trick," which airs March 25, Roger Daltrey of The Who is set to voice the hookah-smoking Caterpillar.
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Disney Duster wrote:Anyway, Rumplestiltskin had a wife and a kid, who I'm guessing loved him. If it is revealed his wife left him, which maybe she did, okay, but still, he groveled to people, but he didn't seem to hate himself.
The fact is that, for now, all we know of Rumple's wife is that she may have left him because he was a coward, and it was clear that the son didn't approve of what he was hearing about his father. Anyway, I think they did a fine job showing that he hated himself, or at least how others saw him. And, yeah, maybe he did love himself when he had power, though I don't think so. He loved the power and how people treated him with it.
Disney Duster wrote:I pretty much completely agree except for the last part since I think sometimes (or maybe a lot more often than we wish) people marry the wrong person and they find someone they love more, and it grows for a while before they finally realize they have to end their marriage. You wouldn't want to end your marriage before knowing you really love someone else, would you?
In this case, it seemed painfully clear that he didn't really love his wife, so he really needed to end it whether he was seeing someone else or not, but especially since he was interested in someone else.
Disney Duster wrote:But anyway, yes, Mary Margaret was unreasonable, but there is a reason for it lol. And that is - show drama and keeping you hooked. In so, so, so many movies and shows, they break up characters for no good reason just to keep the show interesting. And it's stupid. I hate it. It's unecessary and it's obviously not what would really happen. Mary Margaret could and perhaps should have been mad at David for lying to her and Katherine, and she's a little unsure if she wants to be with a liar. But then she should have just said, "I'm mad at you, and I need some time away from you for a while." Not something as out of the blue over-dramatic as "we're destructive and can't be together". That doesn't make sense. They obviously have an unexplainable attraction to each other that they'll never lose and there's no reason to seperate over something so small that doesn't have much to do with their relationship having a particular problem.
Yep.
Disney Duster wrote:But there is one thing, and that's that I finally realized why David couldn't leave Katherine for so long - because he didn't want to hurt her. I didn't think of that, lol. I guess it's because he didn't seem to give much of a sh*t about her, really. If they had shown that he had some more care for her, then that would've been a lot better.
Um, I think the fact that he didn't want to hurt her all this time showed that he did care about her. He just wasn't in love with her anymore. But, really, I think waiting all this time made things worse for everyone (especially Mary Margaret).
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SillySymphony wrote:The last episode is currently my least favorite. Are we supposed to care for Kathryn? Not sure if we're to like her, despise her or just feel indifferent. The writers were going for likeability (I assume) in this episode, but I didn't care. Her fairy tale counterpart's backstory/love interest was the least engaging of the series.
How about she's just a complex character and it's up to the viewer to decide how they feel about her? ;) I felt sympathetic toward her earlier when she was relieved about not having a baby because she could tell things weren't going well with David.
I think her flashback was mostly to give David more street cred, showing that he cared about others and all, being selfless and everything. Plus, it invented a new little extension on the Midas tale. I don't know if it was to make us flat out like her, but maybe that too. Or, at least to humanize her (when she was first introduced, I thought she might be some sort of false entity created by a spell). I guess I need to rewatch the episode, even if I am not into all the drama of the David/Mary Margaret sitch anymore.
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SillySymphony wrote:Shared on their Facebook page:
Once Upon a Time Scoop: Sebastian Stan's Mad Role Revealed
Sebastian Stan is going mad on Once Upon a Time.

As TVGuide.com first reported, the Captain America and Gossip Girl alum will guest-star in an upcoming episode of the ABC fairy tale drama. Details have now surfaced on his top secret role: He'll be playing Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. "In that episode, we find out how the Mad Hatter became mad," executive producer Edward Kitsis says, noting that Stan has been fantastic in the role.

Like the other tales the series has adapted, there will be a Once spin on Wonderland. "The first difference you'll notice is who the Mad Hatter was and his backstory. Then what Wonderland is and the changes of it is something we hope to explore also. We're hoping this tells you the story of the Mad Hatter, but also will leave you with questions about Wonderland."

In the Wonderland-themed episode titled "Hat Trick," which airs March 25, Roger Daltrey of The Who is set to voice the hookah-smoking Caterpillar.
So cool! I was just wondering about if and how they would include Alice in Wonderland characters (not to mention Peter Pan ones)! Glad they're not just making Rumple the Hatter, though I bet he'd be good. But, I was thinking maybe Wonderland could be what becomes of the Fairytale world after the curse. I mean, not EVERYONE from the fairytale world could be living in a small town in our world. So, maybe the ones who weren't part of the curse went mad. Then, one day, a girl from our world crossed into theirs, Alice. And, if this involves Victorian flashbacks, than Peter Pan might not be far behind.
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slave2moonlight wrote:Anyway, I think they did a fine job showing that he hated himself, or at least how others saw him.
I still think that's all they really showed. :/
slave2moonlight wrote:In this case, it seemed painfully clear that he didn't really love his wife, so he really needed to end it whether he was seeing someone else or not, but especially since he was interested in someone else.
Yea.
slave2moonlight wrote:Um, I think the fact that he didn't want to hurt her all this time showed that he did care about her. He just wasn't in love with her anymore.
I meant that we didn't know why he was sticking with her for so long, until we saw that it was because he didn't want to hurt her. It would have been better if they showed or suggested that earlier so we weren't thinking it was dumb that he didn't break up with her and just lazy writing in the episodes prior. Showing slightly more (evidence of) care for her might have made that work.
slave2moonlight wrote:(when she was first introduced, I thought she might be some sort of false entity created by a spell).
Really? The first time we see her, in the carriage that gets robbed by Snow White? You thought that? A spell by who? For what? That's interesting.
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slave2moonlight wrote:Anyway, I think they did a fine job showing that he hated himself, or at least how others saw him.
I still think that's all they really showed. :/
I meant they showed that he hated how others saw him, and this usually makes a person hate himself. I really don't think they need to spell it all out for us. That's like a movie I saw recently where they made a joke that was kinda funny, until they felt they had to explain the reference it was making. Spelling things out too much can kinda make it seem like it's for little kids.

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slave2moonlight wrote:(when she was first introduced, I thought she might be some sort of false entity created by a spell).
Really? The first time we see her, in the carriage that gets robbed by Snow White? You thought that? A spell by who? For what? That's interesting.
I meant the first time we saw her in our world. Didn't we see her in our world first? I'm not sure, but I thought we did. I thought she might be a spell concocted by the mayor. Or at least just someone she blackmailed into pretending to be David's wife when he woke up.
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So, I just watched the Belle episode again, and did anyone notice how the nurse in the insane asylum looked like the Queen of Hearts with her hairstyle and when Regina gave her the red rose (which the Queen loves). And it's an asylum, after all. I wonder if all the MAD people from Wonderland are in there? I bet when they get into that stuff, it has a lot to do with the Asylum. I just hope Belle isn't also Alice, ha.

Oh, and my sister suggested that maybe Belle was in the asylum because she remembered everything from the fairytale dimension. Seems likely.
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Just watched the last ep and yeah...I gotta agree most of the motivations by these characters don't make any sense and are lacking believability most of the time. My dad makes me watch this show with him and he's always confused about stuff despite having watch the episodes prior and it drives me crazy.
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slave2moonlight wrote:I meant they showed that he hated how others saw him, and this usually makes a person hate himself. I really don't think they need to spell it all out for us. That's like a movie I saw recently where they made a joke that was kinda funny, until they felt they had to explain the reference it was making. Spelling things out too much can kinda make it seem like it's for little kids.
You know I could easily take that the wrong way? I'm not talking about spelling it out, I'm saying that I perfectly understood that he supposedly hated himself in that Belle episode, and I'm saying they didn't build that up very well prior. If you really think you disagree, that you knew he hated himself so much before this Belle episode, then okay.
slave2moonlight wrote:I meant the first time we saw her in our world. Didn't we see her in our world first? I'm not sure, but I thought we did. I thought she might be a spell concocted by the mayor. Or at least just someone she blackmailed into pretending to be David's wife when he woke up.
That's reasonable. I thought that too, but after the episode, I remembered that she was the woman we saw in the coach with him, and we see that part before she enters at the end as Katherine/John Doe's wife. And it turns out we were kinda right, because Regina's spell did make her think she was his loving wife, when she never loved him.
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slave2moonlight wrote:I meant they showed that he hated how others saw him, and this usually makes a person hate himself. I really don't think they need to spell it all out for us. That's like a movie I saw recently where they made a joke that was kinda funny, until they felt they had to explain the reference it was making. Spelling things out too much can kinda make it seem like it's for little kids.
You know I could easily take that the wrong way? I'm not talking about spelling it out, I'm saying that I perfectly understood that he supposedly hated himself in that Belle episode, and I'm saying they didn't build that up very well prior. If you really think you disagree, that you knew he hated himself so much before this Belle episode, then okay.
In my opinion, I think the fact that Desperate Souls came before Skin Deep was decent build-up by itself. A lot better then the build-up for, say, Graham, who we barely saw up until he died.
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It is better build-up than Graham got, but what I mean is, did you know or get a good sense that Rumplestiltskin hated himself and didn't think anyone could love him before you saw Skin Deep?
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I would say, yes. In the episode where we find out how he got his powers, he hates himself for being a coward--his cowardice being the main reason his wife left him, so he says. Also, I’m not sure how that episode ended, but wasn’t it implied he killed his son along with the guards and several other villagers? I’m guessing he has a lot of reasons for hating himself.
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If you really say you thought he hated himself before you saw Skin Deep, I'll have to take your word for it.

But I don't think he killed his son. That doesn't even make sense for him to hate himself over that and want to keep his powers if his powers are what made him do that in the first place.

By the way, I think last "Once Upon A Time" was the worst one so far. I didn't like Nova as a fairy or a nun, and that tutu skirt with strips hanging down is just ridiculous. Either make a lot of strips and make the strips form a full skirt (On the Blue Fairy I thought the tutu was just a farthingale) or just make a dang full skirt. The tops of the fairy costumes we've seen are pretty nice though.
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Disney Duster wrote: By the way, I think last "Once Upon A Time" was the worst one so far. I didn't like Nova as a fairy or a nun, and that tutu skirt with strips hanging down is just ridiculous. Either make a lot of strips and make the strips form a full skirt (On the Blue Fairy I thought the tutu was just a farthingale) or just make a dang full skirt. The tops of the fairy costumes we've seen are pretty nice though.
Really? I loved that episode! So did my sister, who I think sometimes finds it corny. The only thing neither of us liked was the dwarfs being born from eggs, which was just goofy.

And the dwarfs were actually whistling Heigh Ho! They're going hardcore with the Disney stuff now, actually using songs from the Disney movies! Anyway, I LOVED Nova (sooo gorgeous, especially in that outfit), and Grumpy was great too. I liked Mary Margaret's part in this too. Loved the whole episode, though of course it didn't have the power of a Rumple-heavy episode. If I was to complain about anything besides the egg stuff, it is that they are being a little repetitive with the forbidden love theme and couples dramatically breaking up. Cool seeing Belle converse with Grumpy though!

I haven't seen the Red Riding Hood one yet (that was last night's, right?). I'm psyched for it!
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I absolutely loved Red Handed :) I won't say anymore about it, in case anyone here hasn't seen it yet (and if you haven't, I advise you do not read spoilers about it, as it's the very best if you don't know what happens).

I'm also really exited for the next episode.
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