OUaT/The Mindy Project
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shallownessOUaT 2.19 Lacey
I could happily watch Emilie di Ravin and Robert Carlyle being variations on Belle and Rumpelstiltskin all episode long. I’d come across people talking about the name Lacey (in a Rumpelstiltskin/Belle context) and thought she was a new character, but this all made sense – well, I don’t know if drugged and imprisoned Belle thought she was Lacey for any of the 28 years of the curse. I suppose they could expand on that when we find out what happened to Owen’s dad.
The further stuff that came out about when Belle was working for Rupelstilstkin was really satisfying – even before the whole library scene which is one of my favourite things in BatB – because it showed her witnessing some of his darkness, which after the revelations of season 2 in particular, stopped the sad but snide little voice remembering that he killed Gaston. So it makes Belle/Rumpelstiltskin in the Enchanted Forest more complicated and less idealised.
Also, TOM ELLIS was Robin Hood. WIN!
(What would have been more win would be if he and Marian turned into foxes...)
Less win, the Sheriff’s accent. They lampshaded di Ravin’s accent and then, when travelling in the horseless carriage, Carlyle did that thing where his accent shifts bizarrely (to Cockney).
But his eyes! And I totally understand why the show decided to plunder the comedy gold of Charming being forced to give Rumpelstiltskin romantic advice.
But then I was sad that, again, Baelfire/Neal wasn’t enough for Rumpelstiltskin not to go bad. Hmm, need to think about what his failings as a parent mean for his character’s eventual outcome. The response to the dream at the opening gave hope, and there’s a part of me that would like him to have a happy ending, although it's more wanting Belle to have a HEA that doesn't compromise her character the wrong way. It’s too early to speculate about the endgame.
As Belle became Regina’s pawn – oh, was the Rabbit Hole set up for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland? My main note is that there was a lack of good looking men there. I kept expecting Robin to turn up in Storybrooke – I really wished Ruby was in this episode. What would she have made of Lacey?
I liked the developments in general. There was a feeling of people catching their breath and talking to each other. Regina finding out that Neal’s Henry's father was funny, because yes, trying to kill people will stop them from telling you this stuff, love. Emma needs to actually talk to Henry about the decision to go home (as well as Neal and Regina) pretty soon. But I’m glad she’s still trying to figure out what August’s warning was. I expect her to start suspecting Tamara soon, because everyone’s going to think it’s jealousy for Neal when it’ll mainly be alarm bells ringing and protecting Henry that’ll drive her. I think they’re setting Emma off on an interesting journey for the end of the season, which pleases me.
Of course they brought Hook back, he’s too much fun not to and, a small thing, but Snow wanting to go back and rebuild her land as an act of penance/for redemption makes sense to me.
So, in total, I liked this episode.
The Mindy Project - 1.21 Santa Fe
High level of laughs from both the A-plot and the B-plot. I mean, of course Danny would get that Mindy was going to see Josh (and would have a better idea than Casey of why that was a bad idea, although Casey turned out to be right that she needed closure, actually) and go along too, whatever he said about rental agreements. And it took Josh to point out the Mindy/Danny thing. And then there was the hand-holding!
I’d been spoiled that Chloe Sevigny would appear on the show and had guessed it’d be as Danny’s ex-wife. Given that this was just after the hand-holding, well no, it was after replying to Betsey’s innocent question about the conference and thinking about the hand-holding, you could practically hear Mindy thinking ‘she couldn’t look much more my opposite;. Or read it on Kaling’s face.
(I'm still working my way up to watching the Top of the Lake.)
I could happily watch Emilie di Ravin and Robert Carlyle being variations on Belle and Rumpelstiltskin all episode long. I’d come across people talking about the name Lacey (in a Rumpelstiltskin/Belle context) and thought she was a new character, but this all made sense – well, I don’t know if drugged and imprisoned Belle thought she was Lacey for any of the 28 years of the curse. I suppose they could expand on that when we find out what happened to Owen’s dad.
The further stuff that came out about when Belle was working for Rupelstilstkin was really satisfying – even before the whole library scene which is one of my favourite things in BatB – because it showed her witnessing some of his darkness, which after the revelations of season 2 in particular, stopped the sad but snide little voice remembering that he killed Gaston. So it makes Belle/Rumpelstiltskin in the Enchanted Forest more complicated and less idealised.
Also, TOM ELLIS was Robin Hood. WIN!
(What would have been more win would be if he and Marian turned into foxes...)
Less win, the Sheriff’s accent. They lampshaded di Ravin’s accent and then, when travelling in the horseless carriage, Carlyle did that thing where his accent shifts bizarrely (to Cockney).
But his eyes! And I totally understand why the show decided to plunder the comedy gold of Charming being forced to give Rumpelstiltskin romantic advice.
But then I was sad that, again, Baelfire/Neal wasn’t enough for Rumpelstiltskin not to go bad. Hmm, need to think about what his failings as a parent mean for his character’s eventual outcome. The response to the dream at the opening gave hope, and there’s a part of me that would like him to have a happy ending, although it's more wanting Belle to have a HEA that doesn't compromise her character the wrong way. It’s too early to speculate about the endgame.
As Belle became Regina’s pawn – oh, was the Rabbit Hole set up for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland? My main note is that there was a lack of good looking men there. I kept expecting Robin to turn up in Storybrooke – I really wished Ruby was in this episode. What would she have made of Lacey?
I liked the developments in general. There was a feeling of people catching their breath and talking to each other. Regina finding out that Neal’s Henry's father was funny, because yes, trying to kill people will stop them from telling you this stuff, love. Emma needs to actually talk to Henry about the decision to go home (as well as Neal and Regina) pretty soon. But I’m glad she’s still trying to figure out what August’s warning was. I expect her to start suspecting Tamara soon, because everyone’s going to think it’s jealousy for Neal when it’ll mainly be alarm bells ringing and protecting Henry that’ll drive her. I think they’re setting Emma off on an interesting journey for the end of the season, which pleases me.
Of course they brought Hook back, he’s too much fun not to and, a small thing, but Snow wanting to go back and rebuild her land as an act of penance/for redemption makes sense to me.
So, in total, I liked this episode.
The Mindy Project - 1.21 Santa Fe
High level of laughs from both the A-plot and the B-plot. I mean, of course Danny would get that Mindy was going to see Josh (and would have a better idea than Casey of why that was a bad idea, although Casey turned out to be right that she needed closure, actually) and go along too, whatever he said about rental agreements. And it took Josh to point out the Mindy/Danny thing. And then there was the hand-holding!
I’d been spoiled that Chloe Sevigny would appear on the show and had guessed it’d be as Danny’s ex-wife. Given that this was just after the hand-holding, well no, it was after replying to Betsey’s innocent question about the conference and thinking about the hand-holding, you could practically hear Mindy thinking ‘she couldn’t look much more my opposite;. Or read it on Kaling’s face.
(I'm still working my way up to watching the Top of the Lake.)
