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Episode 1.7 “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” recap, review, etc.

Posted on December 12, 2011 | 8 comments

(Last edit 12/17/11 — added more screencaps)

Episode 7 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Evil Queen squeezing the Huntsman's heart

In this powerful episode, a character dies just as we were getting to know him. And if we ever had any doubts about whether Regina knew everything, those doubts were laid to rest.

Recap

Kisses have a lot of power. A kiss brought Snow White back to life in the Pilot. A kiss, in this episode, tears a rupture in the wall between the fairytale and modern worlds and brings Graham’s fairytale memories back. Continue reading →

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Episode 1.6 “The Shepherd” recap, review, etc.

Posted on December 4, 2011 | 19 comments

(Last edited 12/10/11)

Once Upon a Time The Shepherd

Mary Margaret, at the bridge, when David tells her he's going back to Kathryn

Recap

In fairy tale land, Rumpelstiltskin is once again pulling everybody’s strings, even those of the king (played by Alan Dale, who was Charles Widmore on LOST). The king’s son, who is not really his son, but was given to him as part of a deal years ago with good old Rumpel, dies flamboyantly. Prince Charming, not yet a prince, but a dewy-faced impoverished shepherd trying to save his mother’s farm, finds out (from Rumpel, natch) that he is the twin brother of the dead-by-barbecue-spit prince, and he is called in to pinch-hit as a dragon slayer. Continue reading →

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Episode 1.5 “That Still Small Voice” recap, review, etc.

Posted on November 29, 2011 | 4 comments
Harry Groener Carolyn Hennesy Once Upon a Time

Harry Groener and Carolyn Hennesy, guest-starring as Jiminy's thieving parents

Recap

Three things happen in this Jiminy Cricket/Archie Hopper centric episode. We learn how Jiminy became a cricket. We get a clue about what is underneath Storybrooke. And Mary Margaret becomes distressed by the strength of her attraction to John Doe.

Honest Jiminy yearns to break away from his thieving, scamming parents. Then up pops the ubiquitous Rumpelstiltskin, with his double-edged magic. The magic backfires, turning a nice young couple into horrific mummified puppets. We’ve seen them before, in Mr. Gold’s Storybrooke pawnshop. Continue reading →

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Episode 1.4 “The Price of Gold” recap, review, etc.

Posted on November 17, 2011 | Leave a comment
Once Upon a Time Cinderella Rumpelstiltskin in Price of Gold

Rumpelstiltskin crashing Cinderella's wedding (screencap by rawr-caps.tumblr.com)

Recap

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 →

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Episode 1.3 “Snow Falls” recap, review, etc.

Posted on November 7, 2011 | 8 comments

Prince Charming and Snow White Once Upon a Time

Recap

Snow White and Prince Charming push the limits of meeting cute when she ambushes his carriage and bashes him in the chin with a rock. It is, of course, love at first sight, and for their first date they fight off loathsome creatures to save each other’s lives, but they cannot yet be together.

Two strong LOST shout-outs here — when Prince Charming uses Danielle Rousseau’s technique of trapping people in nets swinging from trees, and when a “Wanted” poster is shown revealing that Snow White is a Kate-like fugitive (she even looks a bit like Kate while peering out of the netting). Continue reading →

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Episode 1.2 “The Thing You Love Most” recap, review, etc.

Posted on November 5, 2011 | 5 comments
Evil Queen and father episode 1x2 Once Upon a Time

The Evil Queen about to make a fateful decision

Recap

The Evil Queen obsesses about getting back at Snow White, who she believes had once destroyed her chances of love. Her first attempt to cast the notorious Dark Spell briefly unleashes a Smoke Monster lookalike, but then the spell fizzles out. She goes to consult the person who originally gave her the curse — Rumpelstiltskin.

From behind the bars of his rat-infested dungeon, Rumpelstiltskin tells the Evil Queen she must sacrifice the heart of the thing she loves most. I thought he meant that she loved herself the most, and I was wondering how she would cut out her own heart and still manage to live long enough to make it to Storybrooke  — but no, Rumpelstiltskin meant the heart of her faithful servant who, it turns out, is her father.

Patricide! Echoes of LOST themes past. Continue reading →

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