This episode was unintentionally hilarious, so at least I can give it kudos for giving me a good laugh.
Regina told CS, Snowing and Henry about Golden (Evil) queen and the look of disgust that went around everyone's face was priceless. Hook and Henry were my favorites in that respect. You can just see poor Henry working out the tortured branches of his family tree in his head. Hook just looked like he wanted to hurl. I laughed my head off.
Snowing spent the entire episode being supremely ineffectual. After the Evil Queen threatened them with Lost Souls water from the underworld (which she got from Gold, who is doubling down on self destruction) they went chasing after yet another previously unheard of MacGuffin to entrap the Evil Queen. Regina tricks Zelena into catching GEQ in flagrante in order to make Zelena jealous (lovely feminist storyline you've got there, Kitsowitz) which, as far as I can tell, does absolutely no good, because the Evil Queen shows up and destroys the MacGuffin, and then in a moment of ultimate stupidity, Snowing just let the Evil Queen take their hearts, while Regina and Emma just stand there doing absolutely nothing!!! And it turns out (this is the hilarious part) that the Evil Queen cast a spell on Snowing's shared heart so that when Charming kisses Snow to wake her up from a sleeping curse, the curse transfers to him, and vice versa. Charming waking up Snow and promptly falling over unconscious himself as she woke up made me laugh for about ten minutes straight. And seriously, the way this was set up was just mind blowingly stupid. It's one thing if the Evil Queen tricks you, or catches you unawares and alone. It's quite another thing when you walk right into her trap in full view of the whole town while two people whose magic supposedly MOVES MOONS just stand there gaping like fish. Hook was there too but of course he can't do anything but gape like a fish.
Zelena spilled the beans to Belle about GEQ, who went and confronted Gold. He told her it meant nothing (seriously, what is going on in this guy's head) and thanked Belle for the ultrasound photo. Thankfully, Belle didn't bother upbraiding him about GEQ but she did yell at him about taking the shears to mess with their son's destiny. She gave him another one of her patented "you need to stop being weak and do right" speeches and girl, I get where you're coming from, but those speeches reached the point of diminishing returns about three seasons ago. Oddly, Belle did NOT yell at him about giving a bottle of Lost Souls water from the underworld to the Evil Queen to destroy the whole town.
It really does. It just boggles my mind that a whole group of professional writers sit in a room week after week and think this is a good idea! It's like they have a bet on with themselves as to how lousy they can make this before it gets canceled.
A great point I saw made on tumblr.... why doesn't Emma just kiss her parents and wake them up? After several curses which were resolved with parent/child TL (including Belle's sleeping curse just this season, and that was with a baby that was barely past the implantation stage!!!!) they just conveniently forgot about that?
I thought about that too. I'm assuming for now that A&E are aware of that, and they're just going to drag out the story line until they need one of the characters to conveniently remember.
Regina told CS, Snowing and Henry about Golden (Evil) queen and the look of disgust that went around everyone's face was priceless. Hook and Henry were my favorites in that respect. You can just see poor Henry working out the tortured branches of his family tree in his head. Hook just looked like he wanted to hurl. I laughed my head off.
Snowing spent the entire episode being supremely ineffectual. After the Evil Queen threatened them with Lost Souls water from the underworld (which she got from Gold, who is doubling down on self destruction) they went chasing after yet another previously unheard of MacGuffin to entrap the Evil Queen. Regina tricks Zelena into catching GEQ in flagrante in order to make Zelena jealous (lovely feminist storyline you've got there, Kitsowitz) which, as far as I can tell, does absolutely no good, because the Evil Queen shows up and destroys the MacGuffin, and then in a moment of ultimate stupidity, Snowing just let the Evil Queen take their hearts, while Regina and Emma just stand there doing absolutely nothing!!! And it turns out (this is the hilarious part) that the Evil Queen cast a spell on Snowing's shared heart so that when Charming kisses Snow to wake her up from a sleeping curse, the curse transfers to him, and vice versa. Charming waking up Snow and promptly falling over unconscious himself as she woke up made me laugh for about ten minutes straight. And seriously, the way this was set up was just mind blowingly stupid. It's one thing if the Evil Queen tricks you, or catches you unawares and alone. It's quite another thing when you walk right into her trap in full view of the whole town while two people whose magic supposedly MOVES MOONS just stand there gaping like fish. Hook was there too but of course he can't do anything but gape like a fish.
Zelena spilled the beans to Belle about GEQ, who went and confronted Gold. He told her it meant nothing (seriously, what is going on in this guy's head) and thanked Belle for the ultrasound photo. Thankfully, Belle didn't bother upbraiding him about GEQ but she did yell at him about taking the shears to mess with their son's destiny. She gave him another one of her patented "you need to stop being weak and do right" speeches and girl, I get where you're coming from, but those speeches reached the point of diminishing returns about three seasons ago. Oddly, Belle did NOT yell at him about giving a bottle of Lost Souls water from the underworld to the Evil Queen to destroy the whole town.
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