- So Archie's dalmatian is "Pongo," the magic mirror is actually the genie from Aladdin - I believe they've opened up a crazy world of possibility here. Is it not just fairy tales, but any property under the Disney umbrella that's open to reworking on this show? (Note: I'd kind of legitimately be interested to see them incorporate some aspect of their princesses and beaus from The Princess and the Frog and Tangled, since I feel like those haven't received enough love.) (Note: I would probably have an aneurism if they ever brought in Pocahontas.) Is that tea set in Mr. Gold's shop, say, going to one day show up accompanying yet another take on the Mad Hatter and the March Hare? Are we going to run through the studio's back catalog until we find ourselves in some fourth-season episode where we flash back to a Storybrooke resident's unknown past as one of the dancing hippos from Fantasia? The mind boggles.
- So here's what I don't quite get about this whole set-up: in the pilot, Regina states that the various denizens of the fairy tale world are going someplace where there are no happy endings - cut to our world, laughs abound. But...it doesn't really seem like anyone was getting a happy ending in fairy tale land to begin with? All the fairy tale stories actually seem pretty grim (no pun intended) upon each episode's conclusion.
- There's something that's starting to trip me up about this show - besides the overwhelming general cheesiness, that is - halfway into the season, there are no stakes. Sure, everyone involved is under the influence of a curse, but there's no clear path to how that curse gets weakened or dismantled and the person allegedly charged with breaking the curse still doesn't believe that it's actually her task to undertake. The more time passes, the more I think "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" did more narrative harm than good. At the time, it seemed good to see the writers show that they were willing to kill off a seemingly major character, but it made it seem like the path to breaking the curse might actually not be that difficult and also raised the possibility of having someone in the know working with Emma and Henry, then dashed it away,. As it is now, the scenes in Storybrooke aren't interesting enough to hold the show together without forward motion on the overall arc.
- So here's what I don't quite get about this whole set-up: in the pilot, Regina states that the various denizens of the fairy tale world are going someplace where there are no happy endings - cut to our world, laughs abound. But...it doesn't really seem like anyone was getting a happy ending in fairy tale land to begin with? All the fairy tale stories actually seem pretty grim (no pun intended) upon each episode's conclusion.
- There's something that's starting to trip me up about this show - besides the overwhelming general cheesiness, that is - halfway into the season, there are no stakes. Sure, everyone involved is under the influence of a curse, but there's no clear path to how that curse gets weakened or dismantled and the person allegedly charged with breaking the curse still doesn't believe that it's actually her task to undertake. The more time passes, the more I think "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" did more narrative harm than good. At the time, it seemed good to see the writers show that they were willing to kill off a seemingly major character, but it made it seem like the path to breaking the curse might actually not be that difficult and also raised the possibility of having someone in the know working with Emma and Henry, then dashed it away,. As it is now, the scenes in Storybrooke aren't interesting enough to hold the show together without forward motion on the overall arc.
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