What was
Regina’s beef with Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin this episode? What motivated her to give Belle false
memories and turn her into Lacey? Was it
because she believed he knew about how Henry was his grandson from the very
start? Because this time, I think he was
telling the truth, and he really didn’t have a clue. (He certainly might have known all about who
Emma was, but since I doubt Emma would have shared the information about who
the biological father was during her pregnancy, its doubtful Gold knew, either.) Seriously, I thought Regina’s tirade was
against Mary Margret/Snow. Why is she
suddenly so ticked at Gold? Did I have a
blackout in which Gold ran over Regina’s pet cat or something? Was her grievance due to the fact that Gold
seemed to have a way back into the fold due to him being Henry’s grandfather
when she didn’t seem to have one herself?
Her line of ‘they won't accept
you, no matter what you do’ does seem to indicate that. But again, Regina. They were starting
to accept you, but then you went and listened to Cora and went all corrupt
again. Of course they’re going to be
leery of you. Emma even points that out
to you at one point in this episode. But
how exactly was she able to figure out Emma was keeping Anton’s bean field a
secret? What was it about her saying ‘be the person Henry wants you to be before
you lose him for good’ that tipped her off?
There was nothing in that statement that stuck out to me. I just saw this as Emma saying Henry wouldn’t
want anything to do with her if she didn’t get her act together. But I guess the writers had to figure out
some way to make sure Regina found out about the bean field, so they had her
hear a hidden meaning in what Emma said.
I did enjoy
the Enchanted Forest flashback. As much
as I enjoyed seeing the one in ‘Skin Deep,’
watching this made the progression between Rumpelstiltskin and Belle more
believable. Dark One Rumpelstiltskin had
been… how should I phrase this? … Off his rocker for who knows how many years. While I won’t deny that True Love can do
wonders for a person, I still don’t think it could turn someone like Dark One
Rumpelstiltskin around straight away. Of
course the metamorphosis would be a slow one.
But even at this early stage, there were hints, such as him refusing to
allow the Sheriff of Nottingham ‘borrow’ Belle.
Already protective of your woman, I see.
And him choosing to spare Robin when he sees Marion is pregnant? Anyone else think Belle asking him if he
could leave a child fatherless made him think of his own son?
Oh, and that
final shot of Mr. Gold and ‘Lacey?’ That
just…. I have no words for that.
Seriously, what happened after the cutaway? Did Gold beat that guy to death? Is he dead?
Dang, Gold. I get that you’re
undoubtedly miffed at this guy, particularly since he is the Storybrooke
counterpart of the Sheriff of Nottingham, and he is once again focused on
Belle/Lacey. But still! Anger management, guy! In a related story, Emma, aren’t you supposed
to be the town Sheriff? Granted you
probably have your hands full with figuring out the mystery of who August was
trying to warn you about, but surely someone came across that guy’s beaten up
body the next morning, unless Gold did indeed kill him and zapped the corpse
into oblivion afterwards. Even then,
there probably would be a missing person’s report filed. Why do we never see you address this?
While I know
it was only a dream sequence and didn’t actually happen, it was an interesting
twist that the item Henry chose from Gold’s shop was a magic wand. Especially since it was only a few episodes
ago that he was trying to eliminate magic from Storybrooke.
A couple
nitpicks about this episode. First off,
the introduction to Robin Hood. That’s
clearly not the same actor who plays him next season. Considering how he reenters the story in the
first episode of season 3, I don’t think the writers didn’t know he would be coming
back before too long when they wrote this episode. I could be wrong, of course, but I doubt it. So, did the original actor just run into a
scheduling conflict and needed to be replaced?
Secondly, David/Charming and Mary Margret/Snow’s plan to use the beans
Anton and the dwarfs have been growing to make a portal back to the Enchanted
Forest. Sounds a bit to me like they’re
trying to run away from their problems.
Never a good idea, in my opinion.
Besides, wasn’t Snow opposed to this idea last episode? What changed her mind?
Greg and
Tamara are still up to no good, but now they’re planning to pull Hook into
their plan. At first, I was wondering
how Tamara managed to capture him to begin with, but then I remembered that in
the last episode, Neal was mentioning that Tamera had gone into the storage
room back at his apartment in New York and, according to her, Hook wasn’t
there. Obviously, Tamara had been lying
and had gotten her hands on him then, but the question is, how long had he been
locked in that storage closet before Tamara discovered him? I’m fairly certain a few days had passed
between Hook ambushing Rumple and company in New York and Tamara arriving in
Storybrooke. Did she find him
immediately after they commandeered the Jolly Roger to bring the dying Mr. Gold
back to Storybrooke? Or was he stuck in
there for a few days? I’m going with the
former, as we are talking about a professional pirate. I’m confident he could figure out a locked
door, and as we saw in the ‘In the Name
of the Brother’ deleted scene, he is able to break out of handcuffs if he
really wants to. Meaning Tamara has been
keeping him bound and gagged in the back of that trailer for some time. Please tell me she gave that man the
occasional cheeseburger. Or at least
gave him some water to drink.
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