The Evil Queen renews
her personal vendetta against Snow While and offers an ultimatum – surrender
their hearts to her or watch as water from the River of Lost Souls is used to kill
the entire town. Snow, David and Regina hunt for a magical sapling that might
offer a chance to trap the Evil Queen. Zelena begins to feel resentment at
being slighted by her sister in favour of Gold and in a flashback to the
Enchanted Forest, Snow and David meet for the first time without ever realising
it.
Discussion and observations
This was an
interesting episode; essentially it reiterated three things that are
fundamental to the show:
1.
That Regina has a long-standing vendetta
against Snow White
2.
That Snow and David are true love
3.
That Emma is the saviour because she is
the product of their True Love
These are the foundation
stones of the entire series – everything that has happened in five and a bit
seasons of Once Upon a Time comes out of these three tenants. Without them
there would be no story. So, in this episode, with the Evil Queen’s reignited
desire for vengeance, the adventure (in both past and present) with Snow and
David and Emma being reminded of her vital role in all of this, it reiterates
the starting point of the show and asks the audience to revaluate where
everyone is in relation to that starting point. So much has changed. Or has
it? The scene with Emma and Killian in
Regina’s vault opens with an extreme close-up of Killian’s eye looking through
a small opening of a bottle. He winks and
changes to the other eye. It’s a very unusual shot. It’s about perspective;
looking at something one way and then shifting that focus to get a better look.
Or a different look. This episode seems simple and straightforward; but you
could do worse than use the shifting focus technique. Doing so makes for some
very intriguing possibilities, the most interesting of which is…
Three travellers on a road or, Regina is The Woodcutter
OMG I love you so much for making the parallel to Ladyhawke, I thought the exact same thing too, that this twist on the sleeping curse was so much like Ladywhawke (which was cemented further for me with that bittersweet first sneak peek). I am now very curious to see what their “eclipse” be too, and I actually would love it if the curse was broken by something other than TLK, we’ll see 😀
Captain Swan + hands (and hook), a love story on its own.
Bonus:
Throughout Killian’s story, I loved watching Emma’s face. Jennifer Morrison played her reactions perfectly. There was the loveliest look of soft adoration on her face, as if it was hitting her all over again that someone loves her as much as Killian does […] That’s what True Love is all about—it’s the gentle reminder of who you are when you feel lost and the stable, unwavering belief that allows you to be your strongest self even when that seems impossible. Emma’s hand stopped shaking because she finally allowed someone to help her; she finally stopped believing she had to carry all of her fears and insecurities alone. Killian’s love and support made her stronger.
Summary: What if Killian and Emma shared a sleeping curse? A canon divergent/ what if fic.
Notes:Just a quick little piece I wrote on a whim on my phone yesterday. I really quite like it and I’m really pleased with how it came out so I wanted to post it anyway. Hopefully this takes your mind off things. Kinda angsty. Unbetad.
True love now is a post-it note stuck to a bathroom mirror, elaborate curling script declaring that she is beautiful one day, a vision the next.
It’s breakfast waiting for her warm in the oven, always with freshly cut fruit on the counter, sometimes a bouquet of flowers, no doubt pilfered from Maurice’s shop in the dead of night, on the table.
She misses when it was warm lips pressed to her temple. A firm hand grasping her own, fingers responding to her touch, curling into the spaces between. She misses moans of satisfaction vibrating into the skin of her neck, and teeth tugging on the lobe of her ear.
She curls into him, sleeping and lost, a warm body with no warmth, and pretends the arm she tucks around herself draws her closer. Pretends his grip tightens on her hip as she shifts further into his space, breathing him in. Pretends he has just fallen asleep before her, that he’ll be there, smiling sleepily at her when she wakes.
I’m also in the George camp. BUT… Since when does murdering someone’s relative mean the end of a relationship? Snow killed Cora (who killed Eva) and Regina killed Snow’s dad, and David killed Book!Hook and Emma killed Killian and… (I could go on.)
Well they have a tendency of always judging Killian more harshly, both within the narrative and in the fandom, for his past wrongdoings, and I honestly could understand why Charming would find it really hard to forgive him if it was true (plus Killian himself would be wracked with guilt etc); but moreover I just can’t see what purpose would it even serve in the narrative honestly, there are better ways to test and strengthen their relationship than that, I totally agree that Killian being the “revenge is not the answer mate” voice of reason would serve to create that tension they seem to want and it would make sense to his journey up to now; plus we already had the “Killian is filled with guilt by something he did in his past and worries it would affect his relationships now” with the whole Nemo/Liam/patricide thing in 6×06, imo
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