Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk <<And probably can communicate with each other through their nightmares.>> Ohhh. That will be interesting Tom.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<My only comment is, I wished this show would pack more into each episode.>> When one is busy pulling stuff outta his butt, waiting for the creativity juices to flow from the brain, one tends to stretch the delivery time as much as possible. I'm not much of a fan of Kitsis/Horowitz this go round. They had a solid mini-series for one season last year. I'm thinking they didn't have a game plan for season two, and have been trapped by their own success. Unless something shakes loose by the holiday break, I don't think they'll be back for season three.
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk I hope you are wrong skinnerbox. I enjoy this show. I only have 3 shows that I look forward to each week.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I hope I'm wrong, too. But geez... after waiting and waiting for the season two opener, it just felt flat to me. I sat there, scratching my head, wondering WTF I just watched. It's almost as if it's a different show. It feels as though it's done by a different production team who took over during hiatus and are trying their best to work with the post-curse worlds and fairy tale characters woefully out of place in Storybrooke. Sorry, but the whole thing with teaching Henry how to sword fight was the pending omen of doom. The whole fish-out-of-water theme, for this show, just doesn't work for me.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Yes, this series is way to convoluted with sub plots to make it an easy watch. My sisters and I really want to like this show but it's becoming increasingly difficult. ORWEN: I'm only watching to find out what they do with Princess Aurora, at this point because the rest of the plots have become lost on me-- ORGOCH: --which ain't hard ta believe, seein' as how much there is of ya ta git lost on!!! (Sounds of smashings and thrashings followed by a deadly calm...)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I agree that this season has had a lot of issues, but this most recent episode (which I just got around to watching) was a lot better at pulling things back together. It was good to get some of Emma's backstory, since she had sort of been an enigma. It's also interesting that August was following her the whole time, and making sure she stayed on track. What was in August's box that he showed what's-his-name? Wasn't it just a typewriter? I'm not sure I understand how that convinced him that August was telling the truth... And I guess we established who the guy was in the season opener who got the postcard: Henry's dad. And the postcard was sent by August (who I don't think we've seen since the curse was lifted, so I don't know if he survived being turned into wood or now)
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i think he has survived only for the fact when gold brought the magic back they showed everyone getting their memory back and then showed him as a wooden man in his hotel bed, but then henry told his father where he could find him and when he went there, august was gone.
Originally Posted By chickapin post 274: Just for the record--here's my prediction: Rumple's son Bae is Henry's father... I'm feeling pretty good--it's seldom I get anything right! Is anyone still watching this? I am, but most of the time I'm not sure why.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan still watching here. and i made that prediction when they first introduced henrys father.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm still watching, but sort of confused where the overall story arc is going. I guess now that Regina and Cora are reunited, they'll be the driving 'bad' force (but Regina will struggle because of Henry), Gold will attempt to be 'good', Emma will struggle with whats-his-face, but I'm not sure what they're all working toward. Going back to the fairy tale world? Just continuing on? I guess the guy from the car wreck will figure in somehow (my guess is magic does work outside of Storybrooke). The show is still interesting, but far less compelling than it was originally And will we ever see Mulan and Aurora again?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Anybody still watching? I found most of this season to be pretty dull, but this week's episode was one of the best yet. Some really powerful stuff going on there And for something a little less heavy, in the flashback to Mary Margaret giving the book to Henry, he had a Tron lunchbox, which seemed like a fun little nod
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Still watching. My favorite post-episode reviews are by Lily Sparks. She's a fan, but a funny R-rated one at that. Loved the ending last night, and loved Regina's choice. The next villain to come? Jury is out, hope they do her justice. My fondest hope is that the show's creators would ditch Alice and concentrate on making Once consistently good, but alas, that would take alot of pixie dust....
Originally Posted By chickapin Still watching but not sure I liked the last episode--too much of "Bobby dreamed the whole season" on Dallas. I have really enjoyed the premise but felt this year that it was trying a little too hard to keep finding bigger and bigger conflict to resolve. That said--I will be watching in March, so what do I know?!?!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I'm still watching too. I'm glad the jungle/Peter Pan stuff is over. It wasn't my favorite. Just seemed to drag on forever. The last couple of episodes were much better, back in Storybrook. And I'm excited to see what's going to happen in March!
Originally Posted By u k fan It's been announced today that Channel 5 who show OUAT in the UK have not picked up season 3. Hopefully someone else will or it'll be the internets for me!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>I'm glad the jungle/Peter Pan stuff is over. It wasn't my favorite. Just seemed to drag on forever.<< I agree. I really liked seeing how the original characters all interacted with each other, even though they were from different stories; it seemed like a lot of Peter Pan stuff that was isolated all by itself which was less fun. Plus, they were just wandering around in the woods for way too long, even if they were doing mildly-interesting things; it just felt like a whole lot of nothing The next big villain appears to be one of the witches from Oz (can't tell if it's east or west), so I hope that they don't follow the same single-story-in-isolation route. I also enjoyed the series more when it was about managing life with the villains than outright defeating them. Oz doesn't seem like a natural fit to me, so it will be interesting to see how it pans out. On a related note, I guess the isolated part of the enchanted forest where Aurora and Mulan were isn't Neverland like a lot of people originally guessed >>And I just don't believe that Mr Gold is dead.<< I agree. There's got to be some rule that "the dark one" can't kill himself. The evil power has to go somewhere, it can't just go away. Also, if they were truly dead I think they would have left their bodies behind rather than disappearing. I think his dad is dead, but I'd be surprised if we don't see Mr Gold again
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I bet it's something like the dad did die, but by Gold doing that to himself, he just got rid of the "dark one" part and now he's just a regular guy again.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Or, maybe he cut his arm off to get rid of the cuff that wouldn't allow him to use magic, he re-grew his arm (remember how quickly he was able to regrow Dr Whale's arm?) and then used magic to put some sort of protective spell on himself. lol
Originally Posted By doombuggy The whole Pan story line went on waaaayyyyy too long for my liking. And it's getting old with the whole Charming's always going on about "we're family" "I love you" blah blah. I am very excited to see they are finally bringing Oz in not sure though about them making WWW a sexy vamp. they've been bringing up Oz from the day the show first aired. As for Rumpul he's hiding with in the curse like he did before to keep all his memories. Don't forget it's his curse so he knows how to work it.
