Once Upon a Time Musings: Pilot

[miss_peg]

Having watched the first five episode of Once Upon a Time within a very short space of time, I know that I won't have caught everything that matters. Nor have I really given myself the time I think I need to process everything which is going on. There's so much after all that it's hard to keep track of it all, in one viewing.

I decided today that I

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[dj_rocca]

I assumed since the pictures in the book showed it that there's a name tag on her blanket that said Emma. Hence being named Emma.

Personally this is my favorite quote of all:

Fear not, for I can ease your mind. But its going to cost you something in return...
The queen has created a powerful curse and its coming. Soon you will all be in a prison, just like me, only worse. Your prison, all of our prisons, will be time and time will stop and we will be trapped. Someplace horrible where everything we hold dear, everything we love will be ripped from us while we suffer for all eternity while the Queen celebrates Victorious at last. No more happy endings.
We can't do anything, that little thing growing inside your belly. that infant is our only hope, get that child to safety. Get the child to safety and on its 28th birthday, the child will return. The child will find you and the final battle will begin.Rumple, though hinting his is a huge villian is also looking for Emma to save him as well. It also hints that he's able to see the future

[miss_peg]

Yes, there is, I remember it now!

That is a very good quote, it's so chilling and yet so revealing of what is about to happen. Good old Rumpel may be rather slimy and slithery, but he's knowledgeable and that's potentially more powerful than anything.

I hadn't thought of the fact that he's looking for Emma to save him as well, but they are all trapped in that world. Though, in theory, he's got a better life there, in Storybrooke. But since he potentially can't remember his other life in fairytale!world, then we can forgive him that.

[chloris]

Her blanket had her name embroidered on it. If you look at the scene right after she is born there are a couple of good close-ups of the label. And I guess that is important for another theme running through the show - the power of names (and not only to Rumpel). If she got a new name on this side of reality there may not have been enough to call her back. She could have been too well hidden.

[miss_peg]

Now that you mention it, I do recall that scene, but I seemed to have missed it on my second viewing! Miss some things and catch others, lol.

Names really are quite significant in this show - not least because of Rumpel. That is a very good point that if she hadn't been named Emma, maybe Rumpel wouldn't have been able to find her in our!world.

[micheleeeex]

Additionally, when baby Emma went into the wardrobe we were lead to believe that she would be free from the curse. Yet, if she was free from the curse, how come she ended up in our world living a very unhappily ever after?

That's a good question. I never thought of that!

[miss_peg]

It's certainly a question I hope we one day get an answer to because it is quite odd really. To believe you're giving your child a better life, when actually, Snow and Charming don't know they're missing each other in our!world, yet Emma knows she's missed out on family and that love.

[miss_peg]

I agree, there's either a little inconsistancy or things we are yet to find out. I never watched Lost, but it worries me that they may treat this show in the same way...I'm not ver patient either and I do want answers, at least some, gradually. I like jigsaws, but one this big, I'm not sure I can handle information tiny piece by tiny piece.

[always_a_queen]

she doesn’t just bring him any kind of flower - I’m adamant those were snowdrops. That’s not a coincidence.

Wow. That's pretty awesome.

I think there certainly seems to be a theme of finding what is lost and/or someone who you love running throughout this episode and, I’m not sure but I will have to look at the rest of the episode, potentially the whole show.

I agree. This concept, I have to admit, is what sold me on the show in the first place. I think an expansion on the lost/found theme, given what we learned in That Still Small Voice, is finding a part of you that has been lost. Or even in the case of Emma (and even Henry), finding where you belong, where you came from, and who you really are.

And then, or course, all of the characters have lost their happy endings, and Emma and Henry are trying to help them find them again.

I'm looking forward to reading your commentary on the rest of the episodes.

:)

[miss_peg]

Hopefully my future commentaries will be enjoyable enough to read, hehe. I'm almost finished with the next episode, but I got restless watching it before bed and now I probably won't be able to finish it until later as I've just watched the latest episode, so am probably going to get locked out of Megavideo for half an hour in about 2 minutes, lol.

In fact, the lost/found theme is something I talk about a little more in the next musing, soooo, I won't say anything more about it now.