(Last update 12/28/11)
Once Upon a Time is taking a winter break
Episode 7, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, which aired Sunday, December 11, 2011, was the “winter finale.” The next new episode will be on January 8, 2012.
Reruns will be broadcast on two Sundays during the hiatus. Continue reading
Rumpelstiltskin crashing Cinderella's wedding (screencap by rawr-caps.tumblr.com)
In The Price of Gold, the two worlds seem closer than ever. Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold, like Desmond in LOST, is the one character, at least so far, who is aware of one world while he is in the other. He moves seamlessly from the fairy tale world to Storybrooke as he chases after Cinderella’s/Ashley’s baby. (The fairy tale/Storybrooke names are always related. In this case, a “cinder” is an “ash.”)
The episode starts with Cinderella’s evil stepmother and stepsisters going off to the ball, leaving Cinderella behind, dressed in rags, to clean the cottage. Before the credits are even over, though, the story takes a violent twist away from the traditional tale when Rumpelstiltskin kills the Fairy Godmother. Continue reading
Posted in 1.04 The Price of Gold
Tagged Cinderella, Damon Lindelof, LOST references, price of magic, recap, Rumpelstiltskin
Jessy Schram as Cinderella in 1.4 "The Price of Gold," aired 11/13/11
I raided the thesaurus this time to come up with some new choices: