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It's kind of hilarious that he replied to that. Does he have nothing else to do? A random person says she loves Once and he tells her to make better entertainment choices and go watch Alias.

This is why S1 is still an enjoyable watch for me. It's so completely different in tone and story than the remainder of the show that it's easy to divorce from everything that came next. 2A did somewhat maintain most of the elements of S1, but they made the mistake of bringing back magic and immediately separating everyone instead of taking a little time to give the audience some much needed payoff for the events of S1. The minute poor little Regina was sad-faced because she wasn't invited to the reunion dinner of the family whose lives she'd destroyed, the show changed for the worse.

Oh I agree. Both the Evil Queen and Mayor Mills were menacing, ruthless characters and Parrilla did an incredible job keeping the Evil Queen from being too campy. It's why it was so disappointing when the split Evil Queen was running around town in S6 and she was a total joke. The weird dancing and endless sneering were awful. Not that the transition to camp hadn't been happening for years, but a purely Evil Queen ought to have been scary and not a clown. The later whitewashing of her crimes in Storybrooke though, does take away from the character they created in S1. She was a really great villain because you knew she really would go as far as murdering a newborn to get what she wanted. She would do anything and everything necessary to keep the curse in place. They also destroyed her character's S1 awesomness by making others the ones controlling things behind the scenes. In early seasons, she had been manipulated but she seemed to have some agency and most of her plans and actions were her own, while later retcons basically turned her into a stupid puppet.

I've been watching S1 and I forgot how awful Regina is. The writers were fond of saying Enchanted Forest Regina was a long time ago and Storybrooke Regina was different and never did anything too bad. Graham was bad (rape and murder are hard to justify as she's changed), but her actions towards Kathryn are truly horrific. Planning her kidnapping and murder. Sending a woman she knows is married to another man into a real marriage with someone else and being all pleased when Kathryn calls her a good friend is sick. Let's not even go into her actions regarding two young children who have been living alone for almost 30 years and her sending them away from their father (again!) knowing they will suffer when leaving town. She doesn't have a single redeeming virtue in the first season. I don't know how anyone can think Mayor Mills was different in any way from the Evil Queen.

I guess it depends on where you live. Pretty much every small town around here has a 30 foot tree and a lighting ceremony. In a very 2020 moment, one town's tree was blown down the day after the virtual lighting ceremony. As unbelievable as it may seem to many, small towns across the country (admittedly, mostly in the northern areas where it's easy to get or even grow a big tree in the city park) have massive trees along with a tree lighting ceremony. Hallmark may turn it up to eleven, but it's not totally ridiculous. A few years ago, the Capitol Christmas tree came through our town and they did a whole event around it. We made cookies (yes, home baked and decorated cookies) and gave out cocoa to all who came. A convenient light snowfall was happening during the event as well. The people who travel with the tree thought it was ridiculously reminiscent of a Hallmark movie.

Which is exactly why the show became less interesting to me. The show's initial introduction to the audience was about Snow and Emma with Regina as the antagonist in past and present. Snow/Mary Margaret had the most screen time in S1. It was very clear that the writers were only interested in writing for their "fun" characters and so the show became the Regina show co-starring Hook, Rumpel and later Zelena. I mean the show spent a season with two Reginas, so we know where their priorities were. I hated what became of Snow White. And agreed, she was generally really dumb. Emma was seemingly grudgingly given a story each season that was quickly shunted to the background while they played with their shiny toys. They had a ton of story and conflict to mine with her character, but couldn't be bothered to actually allow Emma to have feelings.

I think it's more a POV thing. They never gave the POV to Regina's red shirt victims. It was always about her side. She's sad and lonely and misunderstood. Slaughtered villagers didn't get a voice because they were dead. Or if they did, those people had no right to be upset with her because she's changed now and then they are quickly dispatched before anyone can truly think about the magnitude of her evil (see: Percival). Non-red shirts were also not allowed to show any kind of anger and they glossed over the truly nasty consequences of Regina's actions - Emma and Snow found each other so who cares that Emma's entire childhood was destroyed and her relationship with her parents will never be what it should be? They joked about Snow and her one night stand and never gave any play to the awfulness of people who were brainwashed into believing they were married to someone else. Kathryn and David were clearly having sex which isn't something either would have done without the spell as each loved their spouse. And of course, they dragged her victims down focusing heavily on relatively minor actions as the worst and often played into Regina's victim blaming (e.g. Snow was a brat). When the only thing that's shown on screen is sad, sad Regina who just needs to be loved and there's no focus on those she's screwed over and how bad off they are comparatively - Percival was a kid who saw his family, friends and neighbors slaughtered; I'm sure he was sad, lonely and in need of love too - it's much easier to root for the psychotic mass murderer. Imagine a scenario where Percival was given an entire episode complete with his backstory of a loving family and happy home and showing Regina smiling at him while she murders everyone he loves. Is Regina rootable after that? Would we care about how sad she is? A story of her trying to atone for the atrocities of the past would work, but there wouldn't be a whole lot of sympathy for her.

Maybe she decided she hates Allison Janney. Or maybe her son is particularly susceptible to COVID and she wants to maintain his privacy on the issue. Who knows? I really dislike it when an unsubstantiated motive is attributed to someone and then used to drag them down. She left and it doesn't seem like it's because she thinks she'll do better elsewhere, so it's likely a personal matter. If it were really scandalous or even slightly juicy, it would have leaked, so I doubt it's some hidden drug addiction.

I'm curious about whether Chloe was testing Maze in this episode. She says she knew something was off about Lucifer from the start, was completely sure when Michael was making out with Maze and then after that point Chloe makes a point of telling Maze that she's going to have sex with Lucifer. Chloe has to figure that Maze knows it's not Lucifer, so is she trying to see whether Maze will come clean about things if she tells her she's going to do something that Maze knows would ultimately hurt Chloe?

It shouldn't have been too hard. Linda left the kid in the hospital, so the adoption records would be open and not private. With that information, a bounty hunter would have little trouble tracking her down. I thought it was strange that Linda said she'd tried to find her a few times, but maybe she wasn't really trying either.

They've referred to the Nephilim in the show as well and they definitely exist, so either they don't remember doing this or Charlie is not a Nephilim in the Lucifer-verse.

Did anyone pay attention to the storyboard in the scene where they first interviewed the showrunner? Some of the stuff written for future Diablo episodes was hilarious. I think episode 7 was titled "Insane Clown Pasties"

Disney reused tons of animation in Robin Hood (and other films) to save money on film. Here's a fun comparison of different scenes in Robin Hood and their counterparts from other films.

You're not alone. I've only made it through these first four and I'm not overly interested. I like it when Lucifer is interacting with the others, so him not being there for the first two eps and then around for only one before they removed all the other characters again doesn't work for me. I also tend to enjoy the ridiculous aspects and too much angst and drama is dragging things down. I'm also really not thrilled that Maze is using Trixie for her own nefarious purposes. I'm sure she's heading once again down the path of betrayal which will again lead to everyone being in danger and then she'll whine about how everyone is being mean to her when they don't immediately forgive her. I still don't understand why Chloe is anywhere close to being willing to being friends with her after how she pushed the whole Pierce thing knowing who and what he was.

I'll never figure out how the casting crew, which did such an incredible job of finding actors who could pull of the horrible dialogue on this show and make it seem believable, could put the Henry and Jacinda actors together and think there was chemistry. Maybe the showrunners were involved? I remember something about them saying Jacinda having chemistry with a piece of toast, so maybe the plan was to turn Henry into a piece of bread and have Hansel roast him.

House was the most watched show in the world for a while, so I think it's likely that talking about that would appeal to many more people than an interview focused on Once Upon a Time. And now I was looking something up and ended up down some weird rabbit hole in the fandom where apparently Jen Morrison was called out by Eduardo Castro for overstepping on the wedding dress and this means she's an entitled diva and constantly fought with the showrunners about the direction of the story. It's this type of fandom crazy that would be a good reason why someone might not be interested in revisiting a past role. It just stirs up the crazies.

I suspect that the lack of Jen, Ginny and Josh is that they have moved on and are busy with other things. All three have/had lead or recurring roles on other shows and work on other projects. They would likely be expected to push those projects, not live in the past of Once. Lana hasn't had a single project released post-Once, Bex got married and had a baby, so she's not been working much and I don't know about Sean. They can continue to milk the fandom for money to pay the bills and don't have to worry about neglecting promo for current work.

Unfortunately, there was also a blind item about a star from Once having an affair with a coworker about the same time and this fed into the whole Colin and Jen rumor. Most people brushed off the rumor in general, but it turned out to be true - just not with the actors people had pegged for the affair.

Someone on Reddit pointed out that in Trainspotting 2, Amy Manson gives Robert Carlyle a lap dance, which I would kind of like to see with them as Rumpel and Merida, but it led me to this article. First, Amy was offered the role as a regular on Once. Either I did not know that or I've blanked it out of my memory in horror at the idea that we could have been subjected to more Merida. Maybe Michael Socha's experience gave her pause at taking them up on the offer. I also love how she "was making waves" on the show and "has been taking the US by storm". Okay. If you say so.

If they didn't have such heaven/hell imagery, it wouldn't bother me quite as much. However, I have to wonder what Blacktooth did that was so much worse than Cora, whose crimes include slaughtering an entire village and using their hearts to reanimate their corpses and use them as her personal zombie slave army. It doesn't track for me. The Underworld stuff I can kind of see if I look at it as having been corrupted by Hades. The regular process was circumvented by him, so we never really see how it's supposed to work if he's not there. Still too many contradictions, but less of an issue than the whole heaven/hell thing that happens when they leave there.

That was pretty much it. Regina gets tons of focus on how damaged she was as a child and it's presented as an excuse for her actions in the present. As if reveling in mass murder is just the effect of having an abusive parent. Meanwhile, people who have serious reason to have massive anger and resentment towards her with much more damaging pasts are presented as horrible people if they so much as throw a glare at anyone responsible for their traumas. They definitely couldn't focus on Emma's damage unless they transferred that onto other people besides Regina. So they ignored her responsibility for why Emma was in the situation in the first place and threw in people like Ingrid, Lily and Neal for Emma to blame and then made Emma the bad guy for having feelings about how they treated her. Additionally she practically begged the woman responsible for her miserable childhood (and who attempted to murder her as a newborn) for her friendship all while Regina basically mocked and denigrated her at every turn.

I think the only one that ever made sense to me being a constant presence was Emma and her WALLS™; as tedious as it got that they seemingly could not manage to actually let her have feelings about events that should have driven the conflict and the building of said walls. Emma was psychologically traumatized as a young child and as a teen - all of it based on her lack of love and self worth. That's not something she would ever truly get over no matter how much therapy she attended and how much love was showered on her by her family. But the show generally had her family distrusting her/sacrificing her happiness/screwing her over time and again, and then presented Emma having any negative reaction to that as wrong. They almost never showed the good side of the Charming family bonding, mostly all we saw were all kinds of triggers for Emma in her parents' various reactions and their distrust and lying and outright choosing everyone else over her. It doesn't really matter to me that half the time they had Emma just accepting things, it wasn't realistic. Or if I go with her accepting things, then I see it as a reflection of her still believing she has no value, which is horrible for someone who should be gaining confidence in herself and her self-worth. Hell, Emma's big Saviour moment at the end of the show was to literally just stand there and let someone kill her. Her entire role in life was to do nothing and die. She has no value except in death. The whole thing is just gross.

The hat was introduced in S1 and could get you to this world too, but the point of the Dark Curse was that Rumpel wanted to get to this world and have magic to go back. This explanation works for rejecting some of the various methods of transport, but not others. And considering Bae was in Neverland, an easily reached magical realm, for at least a century and Rumpel had a crystal ball that could have showed him exactly where Bae was, the whole thing falls apart. I did enjoy Zelena taunting him with the silver slippers. All he needed to do was ask and she would have given them to him.

This show and logic do not coexist. In this case, the show has a problem where too many characters have all powerful magic and they need to create random illogical reasons why they can't use their power. Rumpel should be able to kick everyone's ass, but is either apathetic or motivated to not help/actively work for the other side. Regina's magic is now rated below Zelena's because reasons. And we have Emma, who is supposed to have super powerful True Love white magic, but can't because then the story would be over immediately. Logically, if Zelena had just gone about her business, she could have done what she wanted no problems, but there's no story there either. Instead we have all knowing Zelena planning to remove Emma's magic via kiss curse with no explanation of why, if she has this power, she doesn't just roofie Emma's water or something. It's stupid and only used to add drama to Captain Swan.

That scene is one that demonstrates at least one writer understood how friendships work although maybe it was a fluke given other friendships in the episode. Hook is supportive of Emma, doesn't push her for information she doesn't want to share, asks for permission to look through her mementos and never once makes a snarky comment or makes it about himself. Removing the romantic elements from their relationship and you still have a very strong, supportive friendship. It's exactly the kind of thing Emma needed. It's horrific that we see Emma begging Regina to be her friend and feeling like she was to blame and a horrible person for cutting Lily out of her life (and since we see Lily do a lot worse later on, it's doubly awful) in the same episode as we see such a healthy depiction of friendship for Emma.