Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25517595-20150330011154/@comment-5106672-20150330055247

So much stuff going all at once. I liked the episode, but I'll have to rewatch it to get the whole picture.


 * I have to process the author thing. So, Authors are just chosen to chronicle things and all the characters (read: people, in the Onceverse) simply live their life, make their choices, turn good or bad on their own account and that's it. Which is awesome, that's the OUAT I've been loving all along. Except the latest Author, who tapped into his powers to manipulat things? I don't know how much I like it – I mean, an actual, magical, compulsive manipulation of people which goes beyond the psychological manipulations Rumple did. It would mean no one could be held responsible for their actions, and that would truly suck. I like Regina because she's fighting hard to cope with her peasent-slaughtering past and become a better person. I like Snow and Charming because, however stupid they are, they had to go dark to overcome circumstances. But "the Author made me do that"? It's lame. I hope his manipulations reach to very little extents and don't go screw 300+ years of events.


 * Regina is awesome, no news on that side, but I really loved how she teamed up with Henry. Even he can become a likable character when he works with his mom! I'm just hella scared of what Gold has in store for her, and the fact I'll have to wait two weeks two to know what's gonna happen is pure sadism on the writers' part.


 * Now, the Charmings. What people seem to forget is the original magic of the show: we don't have heroes and villains, we have well-rounded fictional people. Who make mistakes. What they did was truly horrible, but from a writing standpoint it's just amazing. Besides, I truly love how they're making post-happily-ever-after Snow and Charming go so dark because it's closer to the source material. Before becoming the most princessy princess of all courtesy of Uncle Walt, Snow White and her husband got their revenge by torturing the Evil Queen to death at their wedding, just saying.


 * From an in-universe perspective, I'm totally sidinf with Maleficent, though. They've been horrible and are currently making nothing to make up for that, they've just been trying to dig their head deeper and deeper in the sand. I kind of hated full-Villain Regina in S1 (while still enjoying her as a character and feeling sorry once her motive was revealed) because she was so hell-bent in keeping her misdeeds up, and now I kind of hate the Charmings (more). It's only natural.


 * Speaking of which, I've read peolpe criticise the scene in which she lets the Charmings go. As Snow pointed out, if she tried something powerful to stop them she would have endangered the baby. Plus, she had just laid an egg, which I guess equals to giving birth. So it's not weird she even sent Cruella and Ursula to get the egg back, she wasn't exactly in shape and hed her hands half-tied. Honestly, the only problem I had with that scene was how awful the CGI dragon looks (we could have had less Grand Pebbie and more budget on S4B, as far as I'm concerned). Oh, and extra meanness points to Snow for deliberately endangering the baby to get away from the mother: that's massively uncool.


 * Will someone please give Ursula something villainous to do? Yes, OUAT, I like that she's more of a sad person with a tragic backstory, but would you please show me what she did to become Chernabog sushi material? You can't have her be a Villain by proxy!


 * The scene in which Ursula and Cruella get sucked into the portal left me WTF at first, but I think it was kinda funny and still making sense at the same time. All in all I like it, and it exlpained how they landed on our world, at last.

So, huh, there was a lot of stuff to see and overall I like what happened. I also like that from the trailer Emma seemed to be going dark while she was actually just rightfully pissed off, that's a good way to build up the attention. Now I'm looking forward to Zelena in two weeks!