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20 minutes ago, roctavia said:
And this time the lead won't have to hide behind purses and big coats
I like watching the last Mystery 101 just to laugh at the lengths they went to to cover her pregnancy. Their extensive use of ponchos was inspired.
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2 hours ago, Camera One said:
Regina seemed to accept Ingrid's "explanation", so it suggests that it wasn't necessarily Groundhog Day. Or Regina would have known definitively that something was up if Dopey the Ice Cream server wasn't standing behind the counter exactly the way he did every day. Unless Regina rarely went into the shop, and assumed that Ingrid only appeared daily at certain times in the day? If so, you'd think she would check back to be sure.
The problem is that they clearly showed it was a Groundhog Day experience. Every day everyone was wearing the same thing doing the exact same things, Marco fixing the sign with Gold walking right under it all, Mary Margaret walking down the street and bumping into Regina, MM teaching the bird feeder lesson every time we saw her. Regina knew exactly what everyone did every day, so when Ingrid shows up, she would disrupt things. Does she have to tie up Dopey every single day? Her interactions with him and anyone he previously had contact with and now doesn't or anyone else would cause ripple effects in everyone's actions. Delaying one person five minutes could mess up a ton of stuff if that person was meant to run into someone else and now doesn't. I know we're putting too much thought into things, but they set up the scenario and now made it completely impossible to believe that nothing would have changed when Ingrid showed up.
They obviously further changed their own canon with the stupid flower and Emma's parents literally slamming the door and sacrificing Emma for everyone else. That whole episode doesn't work with their Groundhog Day system they had already created, but they clearly didn't care about anything at that point.
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55 minutes ago, Shanna Marie said:
But then some things wouldn't fit, like Snow giving Henry the book, since she remembered that. Maybe proximity to Henry stopped the reset from working, since things didn't reset for him.
They did actually say that if Henry was involved it modified those around him since he wasn't part of the curse or affected by it. He was going to school and getting different lessons every day, but for everyone else, it was making bird feeders every single day. Ingrid's arrival is the one that really makes no sense. She too would have changed things and been unaffected. Do we really think Regina wouldn't notice a new person in town after 15 years of cursed Storybrooke?
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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.
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1 hour ago, KingOfHearts said:
The characters acted more realistic in even some of the quirkiest S1 flashbacks than they did later in the LWM.
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.
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On 12/18/2020 at 2:46 PM, CCTC said:
I was impressed with her acting as both the evil queen and the more evil in a different way Mayor Mills. Mayor Mills was cold and calculating and quietly ruthless. The Evil Queen was not just camp, but underneath her sneering façade a bundle of raw anger and pain. It is understandable why she was a popular character.
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.
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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.
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11 hours ago, Ashforth said:
The worst is that every one of the small towns has a tree lighting ceremony, and the trees are all 30 feet tall. Ridiculous.
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.
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6 hours ago, Speakeasy said:
I mean to me she was ok but she got less and less interesting as the show went on and other characters always stole the limelight.
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.
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8 hours ago, Speakeasy said:
You might say you don't want to abuse power like she does but honestly how much you focus on the pain she causes is just a matter of where you focus your empathy; no one is ever entirely fair when they're deciding who they empathise with, and when you're talking about poorly written characters in trashy live action Disney Princess fanfic then you don't have to be, really.
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.
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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.
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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?
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3 hours ago, ItCouldBeWorse said:
Maze tracked down Linda's daughter pretty easily.
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.
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11 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
Not only is it kind of weird, considering there are a couple of references to Nephilim in the Bible, and even more in some semi canonical (depending on who you ask) texts, its really kind of weird that, with all of the angels apparently hanging around Earth or just popping by since the dawn of time, that this has never happened before.
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.
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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"
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On 8/22/2020 at 6:23 PM, Shanna Marie said:
They must have liked that vulture character that they didn't end up using because it's drawn a lot like the vultures in The Jungle Book. And I think there may have been some others in other films. There were the deputies in Robin Hood, and I think some somewhere else.
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.
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2 hours ago, jewel21 said:
Am I the only one who feels this season is a bit of a let down after last season's fabulousness?
We're four episodes in and one was a meta episode, now we have a Noir episode, I just feel like not much has happened this season at all.
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.
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7 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:
It makes me wonder whether they purposefully cast Jacinda as an anti-chemistry pairing with Henry from the get-go, so that if he later got together with Ivy, it would feel much more right, rather than leaving fans who had become invested in a Henry/Jacinda True Love story feeling cheated.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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12 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:
I didn't mind it, per se, because I personally believe that if there is some sort of afterlife (which I sincerely doubt), there is no one whose finite sins deserve infinite punishment. Though it might be fitting to have some period of time that they get to suffer, and, frankly, the villains seem to have a better time of it in Underbooke than the Heroes do.
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.
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5 hours ago, Camera One said:
They didn't need to dwell heavily on the psychological damage, but they hardly even acknowledged that any of this would be scarring. But they seemed deadly afraid of seriously showing the full impact of Regina and Rumple's actions. I feel like they spent more time showing how Regina was emotionally damaged by Cora.
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.
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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal - General Discussion
in Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
The other thing about this back door scenario is that the school will often just add a spot in their admission for a kid like this. So if they cap their numbers at 3,000 and someone buys a new library and wants their kid admitted, the school will just accept them as 3,001. No big deal because no one loses a spot to this kid and everyone gets a new library.
With these side door deals, other kids were losing out because the school was not involved in the process as they were above. They didn't just say okay we'll take ten extra kids because crew needs them, they said okay we'll accept ten fewer kids from our general pool so that the coach can recruit a better team. This doesn't even get into the part where the even the academic portions of these marginal student athletes applications were lies because they were cheating on that too.