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shallownessOUAT 1.8 Into the Deep
It was quite touching to watch Henry and Aurora, the weakest members of their groups, wanting to be heroes so badly and doing so too. Of course, the show had to have some Charming and Snow time. They don’t play tag in that family, they play faith tag.
I didn’t love that we had zombies in the remains of the Enchanted Forest, what with the mermaids reference, was this an on-land POTC homage? I think a moment where Mulan recognised these people might have been a good idea. Especially given what happened at the end, which was a rather brilliant development. Will Mulan notice? However, apart from faking us out, I don’t get why we had the scene in which Aurora talked with Hook.
Aww, Belle in her yellow dress (every reference to that film, which I suppose is the Disney fairytale remake I care the most about, makes me squee) encountering Regina – and finding out more about Rumpelstiltskin. Will we get younger Cora flashbacks to tell us about her history with Rumpelstiltskin and the story that father!Henry alluded to?
So, now there’s no Sheriff in Storybrooke (put Ruby in charge, say I!) and more motivation for Snow to get back to Storybrooke.
I wasn’t in the mood to watch Revenge live, and so caught up this morning
2.21 Truth part 1
If they kill Jack off, I will stop watching, because most of this was low grade stuff until the disbelief that they were going there in New York.
The writers pulled Takeda’s fiancée out from their sleeves – it should have been planted earlier as should Aiden’s apparent knowledge. Nolan being SHOCKED at the fact that a revenging sensei had his own agenda deserved snark. (I shouldn’t have been shocked that he had his own infinity box.)
As if Victoria wouldn’t have burned that file if they didn’t need her to find out about the pregnancy. And when she did find out, she handled it about as well as a trampling elephant.
Poor Emily – VanCamp does grief-stricken well, not so well that I didn’t notice that Emily left prints etc everywhere at the scene of Takeda’s death. She rightly pointed out that Aiden made decisions he had no right to make, and it was sweet for men when Aiden found out that maybe Jack (or what he represented she typed in, trying to squash her shipper tendencies) meant more to her than he did.
But any adjective that I’ve used should be understood as ‘in a mild sense’ as the writers failed to make the a decent set-up – no technology in a show that’s been all about it, equalising rich and poor and making people dependent on native cunning and survival skills, that’s rich territory. We mainly got a few missed phone calls. It shouldn’t be a surprised because it’s been built on a tottery season.
The assassin was hot.
But again, if this season ends with Jack dead (surely not, this show has been so timid about killing off all the main characters, and he was on the trail of Amanda’s connection to Japan – you knew he was going to spot something that had eluded the Greysons the second he got his hand on the file) and Aiden alive...
Not even for Emily and Nolan, even though I loved that finding Ems and sticking to her is Nolan's emergency plan...
It was quite touching to watch Henry and Aurora, the weakest members of their groups, wanting to be heroes so badly and doing so too. Of course, the show had to have some Charming and Snow time. They don’t play tag in that family, they play faith tag.
I didn’t love that we had zombies in the remains of the Enchanted Forest, what with the mermaids reference, was this an on-land POTC homage? I think a moment where Mulan recognised these people might have been a good idea. Especially given what happened at the end, which was a rather brilliant development. Will Mulan notice? However, apart from faking us out, I don’t get why we had the scene in which Aurora talked with Hook.
Aww, Belle in her yellow dress (every reference to that film, which I suppose is the Disney fairytale remake I care the most about, makes me squee) encountering Regina – and finding out more about Rumpelstiltskin. Will we get younger Cora flashbacks to tell us about her history with Rumpelstiltskin and the story that father!Henry alluded to?
So, now there’s no Sheriff in Storybrooke (put Ruby in charge, say I!) and more motivation for Snow to get back to Storybrooke.
I wasn’t in the mood to watch Revenge live, and so caught up this morning
2.21 Truth part 1
If they kill Jack off, I will stop watching, because most of this was low grade stuff until the disbelief that they were going there in New York.
The writers pulled Takeda’s fiancée out from their sleeves – it should have been planted earlier as should Aiden’s apparent knowledge. Nolan being SHOCKED at the fact that a revenging sensei had his own agenda deserved snark. (I shouldn’t have been shocked that he had his own infinity box.)
As if Victoria wouldn’t have burned that file if they didn’t need her to find out about the pregnancy. And when she did find out, she handled it about as well as a trampling elephant.
Poor Emily – VanCamp does grief-stricken well, not so well that I didn’t notice that Emily left prints etc everywhere at the scene of Takeda’s death. She rightly pointed out that Aiden made decisions he had no right to make, and it was sweet for men when Aiden found out that maybe Jack (or what he represented she typed in, trying to squash her shipper tendencies) meant more to her than he did.
But any adjective that I’ve used should be understood as ‘in a mild sense’ as the writers failed to make the a decent set-up – no technology in a show that’s been all about it, equalising rich and poor and making people dependent on native cunning and survival skills, that’s rich territory. We mainly got a few missed phone calls. It shouldn’t be a surprised because it’s been built on a tottery season.
The assassin was hot.
But again, if this season ends with Jack dead (surely not, this show has been so timid about killing off all the main characters, and he was on the trail of Amanda’s connection to Japan – you knew he was going to spot something that had eluded the Greysons the second he got his hand on the file) and Aiden alive...
Not even for Emily and Nolan, even though I loved that finding Ems and sticking to her is Nolan's emergency plan...
