Amph ABC's "Once Upon a Time"

No, Jabba. He's your typical american child actor.

Jello. Turn it down a notch, you sound like Danny LaRue's gayer brother.

This is the one network show I watch. It's excellent in its way, to the point I'm not even bothered Disney are shoe-horning in Frozen characters. Because Frozen is superb and Elsa will be a much more interesting villain than TWW.

 

The Wicked Witch quickly became a bore. But Pan was worse.

 

I loved Pan. The despicable bastard.

 

Yeah, that was a really interesting turn on Peter Pan. And, while the Wicked Witch was pretty awful, the missing year has promise and the Evil Queen still is one of the best things on the show because of her snark.

 

I kind of feel like the Wicked Witch would have been better if she was a less prominent villain, kind of in the background of a few seasons like Cora. Actually I just want Cora back.

 

I was kinda disappointed the Wicked Witch storyline ended so soon. I think a background villain would be fantastic!

 

So Season 3's on Netflix and I've just gotten through about the first six episodes. I don't think I've put anything at all in this thread yet, so for now I'll just post my general opinion of the show so far.

Gold is without a doubt my favorite character in the series–he has, IMO, gone from villain, to anti-hero, to flat-out hero at this point. And Regina is just as awesome. Neal is also pretty great (though my brother doesn't like him all that much). I also think they cast Snow White perfectly; in the first season especially, in both the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, she pretty much oozed kindness and compassion, as Snow should. I also might have a slight crush on her. Charming, I do like despite his usual relative expressionlessness. I actually think that's a role he plays, because if you look at the same actor's role in Thor as Fandral, he's anything but the stoic, expressionless character; he's a braggart who loves to fight (kind of like James, actually). Emma kind of grates on me; she's done some awesome things, but she kind of moans and whines all the time. Henry, I didn't like in S1 but he grew on me in S2 and S3. Belle is great; love her accent (and the fact that she was on Lost helps my appreciation ). And then there's Hook, who at first I couldn't stand but over time came to enjoy. (Did anybody except me note that Hook got knocked out, betrayed, or tied up in pretty much every episode of Season 2 from the time he was introduced?)

So far I'm greatly enjoying Season 3–can't wait to see what's to come!

 

Saw the season premiere yesterday. I've admittedly been very critical of the writing in this show (mostly when the episodes don't revolve around Rumple, as his episodes are basically masterpieces compared with episodes that revolve around those bland other characters), but I've appreciated the (sometimes clever) modified versions of each character's background and story.

That said, what the frak? They shamelessly copy and paste every element of the Frozen film into Once Upon a Time, without any modifications to any of those characters. Pretty absurd, imo.

Plus, the dude playing Christoff quickly got annoying with his 6th-grade drama class acting ability.

 

They had me at dancing in the Belle dress to "Tale As Old As Time"...

 

I too was glad about how Regina was somewhat less than predictable (a rare event in this series). And the follow up scene with Rumple did strike me as deliberate too. Why do you not like Rumple, Jello? I understand that Belle leaves much to be desired, but I figure that Rumple pretty much carries the entire series.

 

Oh, a question on the ending of this season premiere...

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Did Rumple end up with a teleporting hat, like the Hatter had made? It looked like a hat with the cosmos inside and I was trying to figure the significance... trying to remember if that was his old house he was stuck in...

PS - I miss Sebastian Stan...

 

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It reminded me of Yensid and Mickey's hat

 

Jello, that makes sense. I hadn't gone that far back in the canon in my head, lacking caffeine.

 

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I think it's the Mickey Sorcerer's Apprentice hat. It had the right shape, and the star pattern etc

I saw an article that this was confirmed from Entertainment Weekly interviewing the writers.

I adored this episode. The dance had me in tears.



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Jello, dp- Important information to consider :

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When the apprentice hat appeared, that was also the theme from Fantasia that was playing in the background, so it has to represent something from Fantasia. Something to think about is that besides the apprentice segment, Fantasia also had segments from the Nutcracker Suite or even more sinister was Night on Bald Mountain-where spirits and such were summoned from their graves. Given Rumple's focus on his son's grave, I'd say the power to summon undead would be on his mind.....or maybe even the head demon from that segment.

 

That awkard moment when you realize that Star Wars technically exists in the Once Upon a Time universe


*if you can't watch the video then its basically a character talking about wanting to use the sarlacc pit to torture a character*

 

Yeah, working on a fanfic about that.

 

I'm looking forward to OUAT's FU to Frozen by throwing in the Snow Queen. I hope she wipes the floor with Elsa.

 

You do know the Snow Queen will lose, yes?

 

Elsa's got more power than even Sub-Zero.