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Nice to see others watching! I love this show. I teared up during the Hansel and Gretel episode when Emma called the dad in and he saw the kids in the backseat of the car. I always liked Jennifer Morrison on House, happy to see her back on a good show.
 
I'd actually been thinking that the doctor is the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, due to the way he looked at Ruby during his date with Mary Margaret. My guess is that writer is a new potential villain/love interest for Emma without a fairy tale counterpart. Otherwise, his being outside of the town would break Henry's whole 'you can't leave, something bad always happens' rule.
 
I'm not crazy about the writer because he just feels like the replacement for the huntsman right now and I am still mourning Graham. Way too hot to die, sigh.
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I just downloaded all the episodes so far and I am hooked already. Cool premise. It sounds cheesy, I have been trying to explain it to a few other people but I can't quite get it right....it sounds too much like a kids TV show. I like how there is a very "Lost" feeling to it with the flashbacks of people to their previous lives.....but far less irritating.
I am looking forward to the Red Riding Hood episode....whenever it may be.
 
Has anyone noticed a genie's lamp in blatent view everytime someone enters the pawn shop? Future story maybe??
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Originally posted by Savant

Nice to see others watching! I love this show. I teared up during the Hansel and Gretel episode when Emma called the dad in and he saw the kids in the backseat of the car. I always liked Jennifer Morrison on House, happy to see her back on a good show.

 

I'd actually been thinking that the doctor is the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, due to the way he looked at Ruby during his date with Mary Margaret. My guess is that writer is a new potential villain/love interest for Emma without a fairy tale counterpart. Otherwise, his being outside of the town would break Henry's whole 'you can't leave, something bad always happens' rule.

 

I'm not crazy about the writer because he just feels like the replacement for the huntsman right now and I am still mourning Graham. Way too hot to die, sigh.


Ha, see I thought that too about the Doctor. Plus he was all unshaven and he just seems predatory.

I definitely hope the writer is a villain just because I agree with everyone, the show needs new villains. I'm tired of Rumple and the Queen being involved with everything.

I find the Queen most fascinating when she shows her human side. She was terrific in Hansel and Gretel because you could tell she just wanted those children to accept her...Of course she was also pure evil in that episode but you saw a different side of her. Unlike Regina who is ALWAYS EVIL...

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Originally posted by Savant

 
I'm not crazy about the writer because he just feels like the replacement for the huntsman right now and I am still mourning Graham. Way too hot to die, sigh.
 
Preach.
 
No seriously, I'm still in denial about his death.
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The first episode I watched was the one directly after his death, the one with Rumple's background. Then I downloaded all of the previous episodes and watched them in one go. I think knowing he was going to die caused me to not attach myself to him. I didn't even find him particularly interesting until his last episode where they showed his Huntsman counterpart.

Yes, Gremlin, I noticed the Genie lamp as well.

I want somebody else to start having memories or flashes. The Huntsman did when he kissed Emma. Really, I've been fine with all the mystery so far, but at ten episodes in I'm starting to feel like I need a least a glimmer of how the curse might be broken.
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So I pretty much ignored the writer initially b/c of my loyalty to Graham but I think the writer is the author of Henry's storybook.

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I thought so too when they opened the box and it was a typewriter. But Henry hasn't mentioned the book's author previously and there's never been a narrator. The author would have somehow been affected by the Evil Queen's spell.

There aren't any fairy tale main characters that are chroniclers, bards, ect?
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I liked the latest episode which was a take on the Beauty and the Beast story. A nice few nods the the film in the 90's like the dresses she wears and Chip the teacup.
Well it seems Mr Gold knows about the fairytale world. The major/queen obviously knows but I always wondered about Gold. But now it seems he does.

I like how they slip in other fairytale/legendary rferences such as "a mermaid problem" plus I think I saw a Golden Fleece and was that the Holy Grail??
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This series has started to lose me a bit over the last few episodes. The subplots are touched on just far enough apart for me to to forgot why I was caring about that character's thing.

I found this interpretation of Belle to be particularly unpleasant. The Rumple/Beast combination left me really wanting. I was really looking forward to the Beauty and the Beast episode but now I'm just disappointed.

Doesn't anyone who works at the hospitals in Storybrooke find it odd that Regina keeps tabs on multiple coma and psych ward patients?
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I'm feeling the same but I'll stick around...

They just need to change things up. Enough of Regina/Emma giving each other death glares while fighting over Henry. Enough of Rumple and Regina being the only two villains in all of fairy tale land(that's the worse part!) Can they NOT be involved in every little fairy tale? It's getting annoyed and it's also making things like the Queen/Snow relationship seem less important if she's spending all this time torturing everyone. The fairy tale world is filled with baddies, we don't not the Queen to be the baddie in each episode.

And Rumple as the Beast was just blah. If you wanted him to have this story told, why did it have to be Beauty and the Beast? Why couldn't we get the real story? I guess because Belle is going to be an important, even interesting character(unlike boring as heck Cinderella) but still...

They just need to change things up because I feel it's the same week after week...

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They didn't even have a Beast for their Beauty & the Beast episode?!
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Rumplestitskin was the Beast.

I think what I actually didnt like about this episode was that it was "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" what with the costumes and the tea cup and Belle and Garçon and everything. If they'd gone more generic Grimm fairy tale with it, then it wouldn't be a big deal that Rumple was the Beast, but by doing all the Disney stuff now everything just feels off and wrong.

They haven't been overly Disney-fied before this episode, with the exception of the dwarf's names. I hope they don't do too much of it for future episodes or I might bail out.

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I was disappointed with this episode too. The problem of high expectations. This episode really suffered from the "why are Rumplestiltskin and Evil Queen involved in every fairy tale" problem. I did think that the relationship between Belle and Rumple was sweet, if rushed, and this ep was much better than the previous genie ep, which I thought was pretty bad, but still. The show needs to step up its game. I do look forward to seeing crazy Belle in the future.
 
And an even bigger problem for me is that David/Prince Charming has become totally unlikeable. The two Valentine's day cards made me dislike him, dislike what him and Mary Margaret are doing... it's just hard to root for them, true love and all.
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I actually didn't mind this episode, though I wasn't a fan of the one before it at all.
 
I agree, though, that they are making David/Charming unlikable in the real world...I mean, pick a lady, sheesh. The two valentines was so...chauvenist and weird on his part; I thought he'd be more sensitive and thoughtful. ANd it also made him look dumb...I mean the cards had two different color envelopes.
 
I did like the whole "crazy Belle" thing. I do wish, however, we'd meet some other villains. Let Maleficent do something! Let some other villain pop up. The writers really need to look at their fans...I've heard/read this from many people. We're all getting sick of Rumple and the Queen dominating the show, esp. since the Queen has a rather bland personality...or one note, rather...in that she's just always an angry, spiteful b****.
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Did anyone else catch the last episode?

I have officially lost any sympathy or respect for Charming. I still have a little left for Snow but it's quickly waning.

The siren was cool, but I totally called it. Right before she rose I told my bf, "Watch, it won't be a monster. It'll be a beautiful woman."

I was this close to being done with the show, but I'm intrigued by August's intentions and by whatever happened to Charming's wife. I'm giving this show one more episode to convince me I should stick with it.
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I'm conflicted. I like Prince Charming, I can't stand David. Not liking David makes it really hard for me to like their true love story in the real world. It's been too much of a roller coaster with them, every week they are breaking up again.
 
August's flirtation with Emma annoys me. It's too soon after Graham, grumble.
 
But, like you said Kipe, there are enough things going on - Belle, David's wife, August and the book - to keep me watching, but my hubby gave up on it.
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Yes, I meant David as opposed to Charming but I keep forgetting everyone's Storybrook counterpart names.


I wonder if the Wishing Well will factor into how the curse is broken.

Did David's wife write separate letters to David and Mary, or was there only the one letter addressed to David?

Also, since when does having the keys to the city mean you have the keys to everyone's home? I could see David's wife giving Regina a spare key as they are friends, but it being on the same ring as the city's keys was just weird.

I already like August more than Graham. If a dude asked me out for a drink and then brought me to a Wishing Well I'd definitely give him points for creativity. The man knows how to bind a book and there's just something waaaay sexy about that.

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I thought she had just written a letter to David but I could be wrong. I thought it was silly that she had the keys to the house, although I like the look of the skull keys.
 
And I thought it was a terrible first date! August showed up for the date demanding she ride a motorcycle! I do not want helmet hair and I've seen enough Law & Order episodes to never accept a ride into the woods on a first date.
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Well, since she just got off work I'm assuming she still had at least one gun as well as a witness present who could verify he was the last person she was seen with.

I have no justification for the helmet hair other than I have short hair and usually wear some form of head gear anyway.
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Yeah the skull keys were weird, but I just wrote them off as "it's her magic so she controlled the landscape" so she has keys or whatever.
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This is the best live action show on TV for awhile. I love the whole plot and concept of the story line.

And Mr. Gold... He seems to really know everything that is really going on and seems like the Queen's biggest threat.
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Is it wierd the dwarves are the same height as regular people?


No they're smaller, at least smaller then Snow.


After watching the latest episode I realized they are using men who are shorter than average, often the same size or even a little shorter than the women on the show. It threw me off because I was expecting little people like Warwick Davis.
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I was a little surprised by the cameo from Belle......seems they are keeping her around to remind people there is still a plot point there.
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I liked this episode. (It could very possibly have something to do with Amy Acker, who although I love is basically just Fred without the uber-smarts in this role lol). This episode restored my faith a bit in this series and I'm hoping the last few episodes were just a slump in an otherwise great series.

Did we seriously just get a story in the fairy world with neither Rumple nor the Evil Queen being responsible or even involved? Have the writers been listening?

I love Dreamy and Nova.

Mary was much more likable in this than she has been in the last few episodes.

I still can't seem care for David at all. Even though I'm sure he didn't have anything to do with his wife's disappearance I was glad to see him get arrested for some reason lol.

I want to know where Dwarf eggs come from.

"Are you really going to trust a Dwarf who got his medical degree from a pickax?"

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Yeah, it was a very heartwarming episode, if a little (or a lot) cheesy. I love the actor who plays Leroy/Grumpy, and I love Amy Acker too. The show really does have a great cast. And it was so nice to not have the big bads involved in the fairy tale story. I mean, I was cringing even when Regina just showed up for a minute in the real world. I'm just so tired of her. At least Rumple has a storyline and purpose and real weight about him, but she really just comes off as jealous, mean, hypocritical, and spiteful for no reason. I don't even want to see her anymore.
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