Belle hadn’t really been anyone in Storybrooke back before the curse broke, she was just locked up in Regina’s secret looney bin.
That said, I agree completely that Lacey is all Regina’s doing.
I think you’ve got it backwards - Gold didn’t know that Bae was Neal was Henry’s Dad.
Gold said in this last episode that he did not know Henry was Emma’s son, and did not know that Bae/Neal was Henry’s father.
Having watched all of season one, it seems to me highly unlikely that a boy born in outside of Main could get adopted in Storeybrook. Who went out of Storeybrook to obtain a particular child?
When Regina was repeating the same day over and over in the first few days of the curse, Gold said he didn’t know anything about curses or Rumpelstiltskin and she believed him. Why did she then turn to him to get her a child?
Why did the first season writers set up all these great possible scenarios and the season two writers have ignored or just fucked up all that foreshadowing?
bump
Felt like filler to me this week. We learned how the evil queen became super-evil. She went on a little side quest to destroy the town but was captured by the evil newcomers, who we still don’t know much about. Henry and Emma are onto Tamara, but they got nothing on her. Huzzah.
Yeah, especially didn’t see the point of tonight’s flashback. It’s pretty obvious that Regina still hates Snow in present day, so any softening she had on that position in the flashback was going to be temporary at best. Didn’t really find out anything new.
Well, in a way we did learn something new -
That Snow will never learn, that she is quite forgetful, and cannot stand by her convictions even when faced with overwhelming evidence.
To wit - she repeatedly thinks there is some possible way for Regina to redeem herself - even in current time - meaning that she has already forgotten all the death and destruction Regina has caused.
It was cute - but its repetitive, and its getting very boring.
However - Rumplestiltskin was pure Gold…
“Well, you did just slaughter an entire village, what did you think they would do?”
“I said you could call, didn’t say I’d come”.
I agree with Bpelta; this was a filler episode, though I like the fact that, for once, Regina seems to be in real jeopardy. My problem with emphasizing the magic has been that the conflict becomes too asymmetrical. I’m not that big a fan of the Storybrooke newcomers, but if they can effectively counteract the magic that technology might even up the sides in any future conflict.
My whole family watches the show, and that includes my 9-year-old son. After the scene where Regina tells her plan to Henry and then causes him to forget it, he simply said “Boy, that was stupid.” I asked him why he thought that, and he said “They did that just to tell us her plan.” If a story hole is bad enough that a nine-year-old can spot it (even if his father thinks he’s exceptionally bright), that’s a red flag that things are getting out of hand. Regina really needs to get more integrated with the rest of the characters…
I agree, Snow is really quite dumb. For instance, all the burned down beans. “Who could have done this?” asks Snow. “Regina, duh. Who the hell else would be interested in doing so you moron?” respond the viewers.
Was that Snow or the equally intelligent Charming?
If any of them were smart they would take some beans and hide them on the off chance that something like this would happen.
Also, a machine that counteracts magic? I’m willing to suspend my disbelief that a person can conjure up fireballs and teleport themselves other places and so on, but how the hell could you build a machine to counteract all that?
Especially if magic is so exceedingly rare that you wouldn’t have the opportunity to study it to perfect said device.
And what was up with Maleficent? Last we saw, she was a Dragon and had been skewered by our heroine - is this V2?
Maybe they’re nano machines that only have two tasks, to absorb magic, and to replicate.
what a revolutionary idea…
It was just a flesh wound. Edit: Regina said she went through a lot but the magic was sustaining her.
As for magic, apparently there’s plenty of it in Asia.
I see what you did there.
I thought the line was that the magic was sustaining her/keeping her trapped in the form she was in when the curse was released and trapped her there.
Maybe. At any rate, I guess after her last encounter she was merely wounded and not killed.
Sure - moreso just pointing out the inconsistency - they can do better, but it seems they no longer think they have to try as hard - so they dont.
I agree 100%.
I was hoping someone would get it.