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6.14 Page 23 (Review)

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There was no Rumple or Belle and very little Gideon in tonight’s episode. However, it was a Regina-centric and she is my second favorite character. I seriously love her. Anyway I will probably go on a little bit, because I have a lot of feelings about this episode, but first does anyone know any Regina gifmakers? I feel the need for a parallel between Regina saying she doesn’t regret her choice in last nights episode, with when Regina said she had no regrets because her life led her to Henry back in Neverland.

Spoilers under the cut and above I guess. I’ve tagged for spoilers so yeah – onward!

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I forgot to put this in my review. I’ve seen a few posts floating around saying that Bae using the dagger against Rumple is a retcon, because Rumple told August that Bae would never control him. I don’t believe it’s a retcon for one simple reason.

Rose-tinted glasses.

Rumple had a couple of hundred years with just the memory of Bae, and how he felt that he’d let his son down – how he’d failed him. I mean Rumple already had Bae as the center of his universe – “without him I’d truly be dust” – and he thought that Bae made him stronger, was the best part of him etc. So I’m sure after two hundred years, in Rumple’s mind Bae was the most perfect son ever who could never do anything wrong.

The sheer depth of Rumple’s self-loathing would probably make him twist everything so that Bae was right. In Rumple’s mind everything would be his fault, never Bae’s. So while he might remember what Bae did, Rumple would put it down to circumstance, it never happened again, it was just a one-time thing, and it was a mistake, and Bae doesn’t even remember so it’s like it never happened. Rumple would never want to remind Bae of something he’s trying to protect him from.

So yeah in my opinion it wasn’t a retcon.

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I need a gifset of Rumple striding up to Gideon, turning to the Blue Fairy and taking care of business like I need air.

“I’m not here to stop you. I’m here to do it for you. I won’t let you touch the darkness” – essentially I will do whatever nasty stuff needs to happen so that you don’t have to – I will be the villain to protect you.

This is the Rumple I knew, finally on screen in all his glory.

I also need one with Rumple giving Bae memory potion and letting his son hate him, taking all the judgement on himself just to spare Bae the unpleasant reality. Think about what Rumple could have had. Bae could have understood him but he cared more about what was right for Bae, than what he wanted.

Honestly I don’t think I’ve loved an episode this much since season two.

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Just saw last nights episode and ASKFKSDFLS!!

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I’m going to attempt to be coherent in a review, I have a lot of notes! I’m also fighting off multiple plot bunnies because zomg this episode was everything I ever wanted, and so close to everything Rumple ever wanted as well.

It’s like seriously I think my only complaint was Belle needs more screentime! Everything else was just urk so amazing, I am dead with feels.

ETA: Apologies for the incoming spam. I have a feeling there’s going to be a fair bit I want to reblog.

Why hasn’t Once done a clipshow?

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I just read another post which mentioned Once’s budget, which made me suddenly wonder about this. Once’s budget must be fairly high; there’s all the CGI, special effects, location shooting, on top of all the actors salaries. Now my favorite TV show in the entire world is Stargate and they had similar demands on their budget.

You could always tell if they’d overspent on another episode when they did an episode that entirely took place within the standing sets of the SGC. Then most seasons they had a clipshow, where basically any new footage was just characters in a room talking, and everything else was clips of previous episodes. Why hasn’t Once done one of those?

They have so much material in terms of events that have happened, they could easily fill an episode with flashbacks. I know the plot of Once is complicated, so was Stargate’s, so the clipshows don’t really work that well in terms of “catching people up on the plot” as you really need to know the plot in order to fully understand the clips. However, I know that the promos use to try and claim that those were good introductory episodes.

Anyway, clipshows are good because they cost barely any money to make, they get to re-use the shots of expensive CGI/special effects so they get more out of them, and it’s a bit of a nostalgia trip for long-time viewers. Once is on it’s sixth season, I think Stargate had it’s first clipshow in season one, so it’s long overdue.

I know clipshows usually aren’t popular. I think it depends whether the new footage that ties the clips together is compelling or not. An example of a good clipshow in my opinion is SG1′s 7.20 Inauguration, which didn’t even have any of the regular characters in the new footage. However, it advanced the plot of the season quite nicely and helped evolve some minor characters.

So thoughts on a postcard. Why hasn’t Once done a clipshow?

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Bit random but for some reason today I remembered a thought I had when I first started watching Once Upon a Time.

I binge watched the first four seasons summer before last, before starting season five along with everyone else. So after having watched one or two episodes, despite knowing I shouldn’t spoil myself I read the wiki summary anyway. It nearly put me off from watching the rest.

I can’t remember the exact quote and I’m too lazy to go search for it but basically the impression I got was that “new characters just randomly wandered in from the forest” and I was not happy with that. It made it sound like the curse had created Storybrooke and that just for no reason new people just materialized. I hate things happening for no reason.

You have no idea how relieved I was when I actually watched and discovered that it wasn’t just random. I think when I got to Elsa’s arrival, and I learned how that actually happened, I remembered that stupid wiki page and contemplated going to edit it. Talk about misleading.

I’m not sure why I felt like sharing this random anecdote. I guess I’m just saying the show is better than the wiki page made it sound. Although I guess trying to concisely explain the craziness of the show isn’t an easy thing to do. It’s only with the benefit of context that it all makes sense.

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My dash just seems filled at the moment with speculation about season seven, who is staying/going etc. and so I’m going to state what is probably going to be a very unpopular opinion.

Unless the rumors get totally out of hand and start causing problems I don’t think we’re going to get confirmation one way or another until May.

If we know who isn’t going to around next season (presuming there is a next season at all) that will either a) be a massive spoiler as to how events will resolve themselves or b) render the rest of 6B pointless because will people still be invested if they learn their favorites are leaving?

They want to keep as many people watching as they can for as long as possible. I suspect they know already but they aren’t going to screw themselves over by announcing stuff before they absolutely have to do so.