Board Thread:Fanon: Season 8 & Beyond/@comment-34684159-20181007133709/@comment-34684159-20200117000006

' shows Zelena's wedding alongside a new retelling of Beauty and the Beast'''



Yep, we're finding it weird too. Once Upon a Time ' s second spin-off series, Once Upon a Time in Seattle featured in tonight's episode the wedding of one of its main characters (and one that came from the main series): Zelena's -- or, actually, Kelly West, her Seattle identity.

In the episode's flashbacks, Kelly is getting married to Chad in San Francisco, but there's one problem: her sister Regina and her daughter Margot are too busy travelling through time to show up. This (very complicated) situation is better explored in the first few episodes of the. But to explain it quickly, the curse that brought everyone to Seattle also brought everyone back in time. Regina, Margot and others went forward in time after the curse was broken, but due to her engagement to Chad, Kelly decided to stay.

The flashbacks of the episode "" begin by showing us one of Chad and Kelly's dates -- more specifically, the one where he proposed. Kelly, obviously, said yes.

Fasting forward a little bit, Kelly and Chad are about to get married, but now she remembers to be Zelena, aka the Wicked Witch. The bride takes a long time to show up due to not wanting to get married without her family. This leads us to one of the funniest returns of the spin-off: Sabine (aka Tiana), who we first saw in Season Seven and who is Kelly's maid of honor. Actually, this spot was supposed to be Margot's, but as you remember, she could not come.

Sabine went after Kelly and discovered a very sad bride, who was about to give up the wedding. Sabine then had an idea -- she went to distract the while sending Chad to talk to Kelly. And despite the old it's-bad-luck-to-see-the-bride-before-the-wedding saying, their meeting only brought good luck: Chad was able to help Kelly overcome her fears by showing her his unconditional love, and by assuring her that her family would not want her to give up that happiness.

Meanwhile, Sabine had taken the wedding officiant to her food truck, the Rollin' Bayou. In a very fun short scene, the former queen was trying to distract him from Kelly's absence by making him eat lots of beignets. However, he soon realized what was happening, and as he threatened to leave, Kelly and Chad showed up, now ready. What followed was a beautiful ceremony, and a bonding moment for Kelly and the wedding officiant, who would later become her as another curse was cast. Which leads us to...

...Our newest Beauty and the Beast retelling. Now, the former Wicked Witch has become Beauty (who, unlike the Disney movie, is not named Belle, as far as we know), and her lover is the Beast. After a few tricks from a well-intentioned, Beauty received the news that her father would be imprisoned forever unless one of his daughters agreed to live with the Beast. Of course she agreed to the deal, and went running to the Beast's castle.

Now the story starts to become a little more like the Disney film -- we watch as Beauty and the Beast start developing feelings for each other as they have dinner together, feed the birds together, and discover the one interest both share: books. This leads the Beast to take Beauty to a trip to her past, like the Disney 2017 remake, via a book that can take you wherever you want to go. As she asked for it to take her to her old home, there was a surprise -- it took her to a modern bar.

Of course, that didn't make much sense for her -- because of the curse, she was never the owner of a pub in Seattle whatsoever. The couple understood that as the magic of the book fading away and went back to the castle, but deep down we know it: they are starting to figure out the truth.

The episode went on with more falling-in-love scenes, but despite having started to develop feelings for him, Beauty was never able to accept them because of his rather horrendous appearance. (Ironic, considering she spent years of her life having green skin. But to be fair, she doesn't remember that.) After finding a magic mirror that could answer any question, she asked it if there was another human being in the castle, and the enchanted object said yes -- a young prince. Due to her prejudice towards his looks, Beauty incorrectly assumed it was a prisoner of the Beast, completely clueless that it's the monster himself.

Anyways. At the end of the episode, the Fairy Godmother returned after a series of complicated affairs involving an evil witch and a. Glad to hear that the Beast was falling for Beauty, she encouraged him to propose to her. However, as the girl didn't want to love such an ugly monster, she declined despite being clearly in love with him. Let's just hope she accepts her feelings one day. If there's anything the parent series taught ones, it's to have hope.