Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>It started off good though next week will be the key. Pan Am started out good too but has dropped ever since.<< Not to get too off topic, but I really agree with this. The pilot of Once Upon a Time set up a lot of interesting plot points that need to be resolved, but it will be interesting to see how quickly they are addressed. Some are much more long-term things, while others will need to be solved soon. I think that what happens next week (and the creators said that there will be several new characters in the next few episodes) will really set the course for the series. Sadly, Pan Am didn't do so well in that department. It had a lot of potential to be a great show, and it's turning out to be just okay. As my mom described it, it's like The Love Boat, but on an airplane. Some parts are great (pretty much anything with Collette), some are okay (most of it), and some are just plain lousy (the Maggie/JFK storyline in Berlin). It's just a little disappointing for a show with so much hype around it. Hopefully Once Upon a Time will break that mold.
Originally Posted By Scutr >>Really I thought the dwarfs looked fine.<< I thought they looked like refugees from "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer". I half expected them to break out in a chorus of "We are Santa's Elves"
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Something I've always wanted to ask the Witches but how do you decide who speaks when.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb This show has been sitting on my DVR since last week. I finally got a chance to see it and, in spite of not really connecting to the main character, I very much enjoyed it. I think I want to watch the first ep again and see if I can catch more details, like who Lee "'allo Poppet" Arenberg is in the fantasy world. Did anyone else notice that the only time Snow White's hair didn't look like a rats' nest was when she was in hard labor?
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Well, heck! How does ANYBODY decide when they's gonna' speak, DDMAN26. ducklin'? They does it when they's got somethin' ta say!! 'Course ya don't wanna' be listenin' ta ANYTHING my big fat sister--Orwen--has ta say. She's the dumbest witch they ever was!!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Well, that was interesting--the second episode that we just conjured up inside our crystal ball, that is. So now there's been a show down between the Wicked Queen and Maleficent? I think we all know how that REALLY would have turned out if the writers of this new series had their heads on straight. There's no conquering the Mistress of all Evil--unless you happen to be 3 good fairies with a handsome hunk of a Prince Phillip on your side. ORWEN: They're really trying hard to re-write fairy tale history. I just hope they get around to re-writing The Black Cauldon's history--so we can finally have the chance to over-power the Horned King. ORGOCH: Thought we did that already! He got hisself all sucked up inside the cauldron! ORDDU: Yes, until somebody went and released him again. How else do you explain his constant stalking and tortuing of us? ORGOCH: Yeah, right! ORWEN: Getting back to this new series, I was surprised they made their version of Maleficent a blond. But I did notice the crown she wore looked like the same horns Disney animators had drawn for her. ORDDU: I like the way Emma took a chain saw to the mayor's apple tree. A brilliant piece of plot line. ORGOCH: So how many more episodes we got left? Anybody know?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb So far I'm enjoying the show. I think it's a good sign that I am not ready to have it end when it does, in that it's like LOST for me. Is anyone else catching Grimm? A *very* different take on fairy tales in the modern world. So far I prefer OUaT, but it's much too early in either series' run to be really sure about them. I want to love them both, we'll see if they live up to my hopes or disappoint over the next couple of months.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I'm on my phone so I can't link but I saw that the ratings stayed steady for this week so the show looks like it's a hit
Originally Posted By tink2680 I will be watching Grimm and Once Upon a Time. Grimm is made by the produces of Buffy which I love so I am hoping for a lot of fun mixed right in with some serious darkness. I am liking Once Upon a Time so far...although I hate Snow White's short haircut..lol.
Originally Posted By Scutr Snow always had short hair, it was just a bit more full than it is now. I'm with the Witches on the EQ vs Maleficent showdown. M would've mopped the floor with her! (literally! Woulda turned her into a mop & cleaned house!) And what's up with making Rumplestiltskin even more powerful? Puh-lease. Witches, I noticed a horned "gentleman" standing around the fire-pit with the other baddies. I wondered if it was your ex-boss...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Oh, you noticed that, too, did you, Scutr dear? How very observant. We weren't going to say anything but since you witnessed the whole thing we may as well admit it. That WAS the Horned King. He's been taking on extra jobs, lately, times being what they are. He had to dismiss most of his slaves--not because he couldn't afford to pay them--but because he ran out of food to feed them!! ORWEN: He also needs to buy a new robe for Halloween and when his agent called to tell him about how the producers of Once Upon a Time needed to hire some 'extras' for one of their episodes he jumped through hoops for the chance to be on TV. ORGOCH: Yeah, now he's hopin' ta be a reg'lar on the dang show! We'll see...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: I should certainly HOPE not! After all, she IS supposed to be the only friend of the wicked queen--althought that's highly questionable after this last episode.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Since I'm a fan of great acting. I loved the casting of Giancarlo Espisito as the Magic Mirror.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really like what they're doing with the Regina character. She's just one of those people that's really fun to hate. Does anybody have any guesses who the sherriff is supposed to be? My initial thought was the Sherriff of Nottingham, but he's actually a decent guy, so probably not. Maybe Robin Hood, but I'm not sure if that story really fits the genre very well. It's more of a folk tale than a fairy tale. And did they ever fully explain what needs to happen to break the curse? I know that it requires the 'saved' person (AKA Emma) to come back and do something, but what exactly would that be (other than just sorting out who's who)? And I think I need to do some research on Rumplestiltskin. I thought that he was just sort of annoying and tricky in the story, not all-powerful. It's good to have someone with more power than the queen, but it just seems awkward. I think I only ever read that story once, and it was many years ago, so maybe there's more to it than what I remember. This is definitely turning into a show where every time I see it, I want to see more!
Originally Posted By Scutr >>Does anybody have any guesses who the sherriff is supposed to be? My initial thought was the Sherriff of Nottingham, but he's actually a decent guy, so probably not. Maybe Robin Hood, but I'm not sure if that story really fits the genre very well.<< I've been thinking along the same lines. It doesn't really fit. Maybe he's the woodsman that saves Red Riding Hood from the BBWolf? Then again, maybe he's Pinnochio. Seems like somebody's always pulling his strings... I was also a little iffy on the Jimminy Cricket as lying psychiatrist bit. Doesn't say much about his conscience.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: I was thinking the same thing as you were, Scutr, duckling. It would seem that Jiminey Cricket should have just as much integrity as a human as he did when he was an insect. The writers should be more consistant about such details--unless they're trying to make some sort of statement, such as becoming human makes you forget your morals. ORWEN: Yeah, I agree. At least Snow White seems to still be a good person in her new life. She didn't turn bad just because she forgot who she was. Why can't it be that way for all the other fairy tale characters?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Maybe he's not really Jimminy Cricket. My first thought when I saw him was that he was Roger from 101 Dalmatians (walking the dalmatian helped with that). So far, they've only said that Henry thinks that's who he is. Then again, I'm not sure 101 fits the fairy tale idea very well (and we did see Jimminy in the fairy tale world, so he'll show up eventually). And another random question: if time stands still and nobody ages in Storybrooke, how did Henry get to be 10 years old? Or is it just people who are under the spell who don't age?
Originally Posted By magic0214 ^^^SO thought the exact same thing about the 101...I said to myself "I didn't know Pongo was in this!"
