Phew, only a one week break
Jul. 15th, 2013 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessOuaT 2.14 Manhattan
Yeah, but no. I’d been fairly sure for a while that Neal would be Baelfire – will they explain the mismatch in the passage of time, though? Or how August found out? I can see why they did it and was amused when Snow and Charming found out – although they made him needlessly stupid over family trees. Regina has always been both adoptive mother and step great grandmother to Henry, DUH. The point is that Rumpelstiltskin has found his son, who is Henry’s father, which makes both the families entwined. Grandpa Charming on one side, Grandpa Rumpel on the other.
What I really didn’t like was the ending. I was sad that the Seer got no name. And to anyone who thought that what they did with the eyes was cool, yes, it was, but Pan’s Labyrinth did it first. But her final prophecy about how Henry would lead Rumpelstiltskin to Baelfire, but destroy Rumpelstiltskin, who, being all jazzed up on being the dark one, said that he’d kill him (not a hint of this in his behaviour when Henry was coming along from before the flashback, BTW. Even if he hadn’t discerned that Henry was his son’s son, he should have been able to suss out that he was the one from the prophecy). It’s familiar and in a way that makes me antsy, because it pushes aside the women. I mean, my immediate reaction was that Rumpelstiltskin won’t kill Henry, because that’s beyond redeemable in show logic, and because Emma, Snow and Regina. And Charming. But then, I thought the PTW, who were pushing themselves into the story rather, with the talk of fate and knowing the future, and the return of know-it-all self-instert Writer!August, are men and maybe they’re more comfortable in having it be the story of a young boy with daddy issues, coming from a lineage of daddy issues, who is to be The Hero.
I like swordfighting as much as anyone – although it’s not that effective against magic on its own – but I want Emma to wield the sword, mainly.
As for Neal himself and his gravely voice, yeah, fine, whatever (did Emma/Hook shippers’ hearts break collectively at this point?) I don’t think any romantic potential with Emma has ever got to me like Graham. I'm more interested in the familial stuff, and certainly adding another living, breathing, contrary parent to the dynamic with Henry is going to be interesting. I’m also looking forward to his meeting Hook (and Belle) who will tell him that Rumpelstiltskin killed his mother, which I don’t think he knew. He was making valid points about Rumpelstiltskin’s behaviour.
Perhaps Emma will be allowed to punch August when she gets back to Storybrooke.
Meanwhile, back in Storybrooke, despite her desperation over Henry, I really don’t get Regina working with Cora. Cora was busy having a wardrobe transformation in the last episode, I see. Poor Belle! I hope Mendel’s ‘Her’ is someone fairytaleish.
Oh, and explicit paralleling between Mila and Belle in costumes at least. His wife's attitude about Rumpelstiltskin the deserter was VEHEMENT. I know that it was his flashback and his perspective, and one could make the imaginative leap of how it must have been to bear and give birth to the child of the man about whom there were all these rumours coming before him, but it was vehement.
Yeah, but no. I’d been fairly sure for a while that Neal would be Baelfire – will they explain the mismatch in the passage of time, though? Or how August found out? I can see why they did it and was amused when Snow and Charming found out – although they made him needlessly stupid over family trees. Regina has always been both adoptive mother and step great grandmother to Henry, DUH. The point is that Rumpelstiltskin has found his son, who is Henry’s father, which makes both the families entwined. Grandpa Charming on one side, Grandpa Rumpel on the other.
What I really didn’t like was the ending. I was sad that the Seer got no name. And to anyone who thought that what they did with the eyes was cool, yes, it was, but Pan’s Labyrinth did it first. But her final prophecy about how Henry would lead Rumpelstiltskin to Baelfire, but destroy Rumpelstiltskin, who, being all jazzed up on being the dark one, said that he’d kill him (not a hint of this in his behaviour when Henry was coming along from before the flashback, BTW. Even if he hadn’t discerned that Henry was his son’s son, he should have been able to suss out that he was the one from the prophecy). It’s familiar and in a way that makes me antsy, because it pushes aside the women. I mean, my immediate reaction was that Rumpelstiltskin won’t kill Henry, because that’s beyond redeemable in show logic, and because Emma, Snow and Regina. And Charming. But then, I thought the PTW, who were pushing themselves into the story rather, with the talk of fate and knowing the future, and the return of know-it-all self-instert Writer!August, are men and maybe they’re more comfortable in having it be the story of a young boy with daddy issues, coming from a lineage of daddy issues, who is to be The Hero.
I like swordfighting as much as anyone – although it’s not that effective against magic on its own – but I want Emma to wield the sword, mainly.
As for Neal himself and his gravely voice, yeah, fine, whatever (did Emma/Hook shippers’ hearts break collectively at this point?) I don’t think any romantic potential with Emma has ever got to me like Graham. I'm more interested in the familial stuff, and certainly adding another living, breathing, contrary parent to the dynamic with Henry is going to be interesting. I’m also looking forward to his meeting Hook (and Belle) who will tell him that Rumpelstiltskin killed his mother, which I don’t think he knew. He was making valid points about Rumpelstiltskin’s behaviour.
Perhaps Emma will be allowed to punch August when she gets back to Storybrooke.
Meanwhile, back in Storybrooke, despite her desperation over Henry, I really don’t get Regina working with Cora. Cora was busy having a wardrobe transformation in the last episode, I see. Poor Belle! I hope Mendel’s ‘Her’ is someone fairytaleish.
Oh, and explicit paralleling between Mila and Belle in costumes at least. His wife's attitude about Rumpelstiltskin the deserter was VEHEMENT. I know that it was his flashback and his perspective, and one could make the imaginative leap of how it must have been to bear and give birth to the child of the man about whom there were all these rumours coming before him, but it was vehement.
