[S09.E01: Episode 1]

On 9/15/2020 at 5:37 PM, Spunkygal said:

For folks still looking for season 9, it’s now on Netflix.

Reading the earlier comments about how badly it was edited by PBS, it seems like it might have been butchered even worse by Netflix. There were a few scenes left in with no explanation to what was happening. Most glaring were brief glimpses of Vi during the Churchill funeral and a shot the Turners with the bunnies that was literally just one second before another brief shot of Sister Julienne and an abrupt end to the episode. Even the music seemed to just cut off. Very badly done. 

[S01.E01: Run]

I found Ruby to be unlikable as well, but I’m a bit confused by the money comments above. She works in an architecture firm based on what she said to Billy and seems to make her own schedule/have time to be at Target early in the day. I’m not sure why some comments seem to imply she’s using her husband’s money or saddling him with the parking bill. 

But yeah, if this is a cheating story, as it appears right now, I’m not interested. 

[S04.E18: Strangers: Part Two]

I totally thought the baby would be named Rebecca. 

Uncle Nicky has a wedding ring in the flash forward. For one wild moment, I thought he might marry Jennifer Morrison’s character. 

[S04.E14: The Cabin]

3 hours ago, debraran said:

I hate this thought but since birth control is used infrequently on TV or the effectiveness drops 90%, do you think Kate gets pregnant? No mention or alluding to it all these seasons which would be odd (even Marc) but I can't imagine they didn't sleep together and I know Marc wouldn't use anything and was Kate on the pill, doubt it.

She did have an emotional reaction to the MASH. Kevin thought it was about Joey Lawrence but it seemed to me she reacted to having 2 kids, a boy and a girl. It could just be trauma from her experience with baby Jack and possibly not having more children, but it could be from being pregnant before, possibly with a girl. 
 

Did anyone else briefly think, if this were a different type of show, that the fight was going to get unexpectedly violent, Marc was somehow going to get fatally injured, and the Pearsons were going to cover it up and bury him at the cabin in the time capsule spot? Okay, probably just me. 

[S05.E09: Elseworlds Part 1]

These brain trusts decide to go fight a power replicating robot and choose to bring, not just Supergirl and the Flash, but Superman, one of the most overpowered superheroes in all the Earths? That was by far one of the most idiotic things I’ve ever seen on the DCTV shows and that’s saying something. That red cloud really must be dumbing everyone down.

Smallville theme was cool though. 

[S01.E02: Reentry]

When the kid kept insisting his seemingly correct sets of legos were wrong compared to the ones he used to have, I thought we were going the Mandela Effect route. I was kind of disappointed to find out the original and correct sets were just in a storage locker. 

[Who is America? - General Discussion]

That food critic segment was the squickiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt that he thought the Kobe beef prophylactic was just inspired by the story the prison guy was telling, eating what he thought was Chinese dissident is indefensible. 

[Who is America? - General Discussion]

There was a third guy in the quinceanera segment, who SBC said he chose not to use because of body type. I’m guessing he actually figured out this was a scam or that even if it was real, it would result in the police being called. Either way, it looked odd that he was in the “training” section and not there for the actual “sting” operation.

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

12 minutes ago, Camera One said:

He probably had problems staying selfless, brave and true once again. 

Blame Emma. She got herself a kid and a husband so he could no longer be her selfless best friend (bleach) anymore.

[OUAT vs. Other Fairy Tales: Compare & Contrast]

She was bold and audacious. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

3 minutes ago, Camera One said:

And now we know - all she really wanted was to become The Good Queen™, coming to CBS this fall.  A sequel to The Good Wife™ and The Good Fight™, The Good Queen™ follows Regina, the Queen of Everything, as she takes on the lawyers of Chicago.  Bow down, Alicia Florrick and Diane Lockhart, the REAL Queen of the bar is here.

If we’re lucky, she’ll go to The Good Place ? Offscreen, of course. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

4 minutes ago, KingOfHearts said:

I still love "Magic", the theme that plays when magic comes to Storybrooke. It's just so whimsical and filled with anticipation. All the villain themes fit the characters so well.

I have to say the Evil Queen theme is probably my favorite Regina-related thing. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

3 minutes ago, Rumsy4 said:

Young Henry. Adult Henry. Wish Henry. Let's not forget Mary Margaret. And maaaybe Zelena. So, five people?

They made my Charming bow to her. Twice. I’m afraid he’s finally been converted, as much as it hurts me to say so. And I think Snow has influenced Snowflake into Regina love. Or he just really didn’t want to be a ruler. 

A truly gracious person would have pulled an Aragorn after the first bow. “My friends, you bow to no one.” But she’s no Aragorn. 

[Once Upon A...SHOULDA HAPPENED THIS WAY!]

2 minutes ago, KingOfHearts said:

I know I've teased it in the past, but I'd really like to see or write something that isn't about just one ship or character, but just a "this could've happened in the show's universe" sort of thing.

I've wanted something like this for a long time. In the early days of the fandom, it was easier to find more fic that was considered Snowing fic but could also basically serve as genfic, since the show itself was basically lowkey Snow and Charming fanfic. I haven't found much of that since the Summer before Neverland, when ship wars took over. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

Oh, and something else I'll really miss is the amazing soundtrack. I really feel like half of the barely there emotion this finale squeezed out of me was from the music. Of course, the True Love theme has been making me emotional since the Pilot and shortly after won me over completely when Charming shot that arrow in Snow Falls (sniff) but I'll also always adore Hook showing up to face danger with his wonderful pirate theme blaring. 

[Once Upon A...SHOULDA HAPPENED THIS WAY!]

I am so glad to see this thread!

I will forever be convinced that Cricket Game was this show's point of no return. I was sure during the early half of 2B that Regina was truly trying to be better and was only pretending to go along with Cora. I actually really liked Regina in 2A and thought that was what they were going for, 

Another thing I wish is that Going Home had truly been a game changing reset. I really liked the spec at the spoiler thread at the time that the EF characters were cursed to forget and Emma and Henry had to somehow get to the EF and help them remember who they were. I guess that would have been a sort of retread of season one, but with the heartbreak of Emma knowing these characters and them not knowing her. 

4 hours ago, saoirse said:

@KingOfHearts, it felt an appropriate substitution to the Spoiler Discussion topic - we can't leave all of you hanging, after all!

Thank you! Maybe one day some skilled fanfic writer can rework all this and do a total rewrite of the show. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

4 hours ago, stealinghome said:

I think I've said this before, but OUAT will probably go down as one of the most disappointing shows I ever watched. It had SUCH promise, such potential, and then the writers didn't just piss it away, they nuclear bombed it while sending it careening into the sun. What a waste of a phenomenal cast.

Same same same. I'll never be over it. 

4 hours ago, sharky said:

That all being said, something is wrong with me. I liked the hand holding between Regina and WHook. I may have to write WHooked Queen fanfic now. I apologize in advance.

*whispers* Do it. I'd read it. 

3 hours ago, Curio said:

Blame the Fairy Electoral College.

I'm seriously wondering if all the votes counted equally or if the clearly curse-addled citizens of Storybrooke's votes counted more than say, Neverland. 

4 hours ago, Katherine said:

I pretty much gave up on it this season, but for a few years there, Once Upon a Time was a weirdly important part of my life. I'll miss it, and I'll miss following the spoilers forum here!

Same here. I'm a little stunned over how much it meant to me at one point and how cold this finale left me. Oh well, maybe in a few years I'll rewatch the show with a fresh perspective. I'll always be happy we got what we did of the Charming Family and some of their friends, even though I'll always want more. 

As for the Spoiler Thread, I'll miss it most of all, and all the posters here. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

3 minutes ago, Worsel said:

Go ahead and watch.  And read all the comments here while you do it.  That will make it worthwhile

Thanks. I’ve been reading along tonight. Im just not near a tv so I can’t watch yet. I already feel like I have a general idea of how things went. I’ll watch of course but I’m not very excited about it. 

[S07.E22: Leaving Storybrooke]

I don’t know if I’ll ever figure out if the highs of this show were worth the incredible lows. Still, I did love this show when it was great.  

I haven’t watched the finale yet, I don’t know if I even want to. 

[A Thread for All Seasons: This Story Is Over, But Still Goes On.]

My curse opinion is that this show never disappointed me, never had a continuity or logic error, never confused me with its unending array of kingdoms and kingdoms within kingdoms, and never dropped characters I loved sometimes years before the actors actually left for others that were at best uninteresting and at worst insulting. 

My real opinion is that while it did commit all those sins, I still loved it. With a little more thought for the actual story and not the twists, and better show runners, this concept with this cast could have been something great. I’m going to miss it.

And I will miss these forums as I still miss their precursor at TWoP, but I will not miss the larger fandom, not even a little bit. Despite all the disappointment, I wish I could watch live tomorrow, just so I could discuss it with all of you. 

[OUAT vs. Other Fairy Tales: Compare & Contrast]

On 4/28/2018 at 9:44 PM, Spartan Girl said:

Damned if that wasn't the exact same thing I thought of at that moment too. Are some of the OUAT writers at Marvel?! Code red!

I also thought the same.

Spoiler

Only I suspect this action will have more consequences for Thanos than it did for Regina and I can at least say that Thanos believes his sacrifice was for the greater good.  

[Avengers: Infinity War (2018)]

16 minutes ago, Bec said:

That first question raises these other questions: did Thanos somehow choose who would turn into dust? Or did he make it completely random?

I vaguely remember Howard the Duck chilling on that snowy planet full of bars and women where Yondu was early on in GotG2. Was that supposed to be in Knowhere or some other place? In any case, he probably hadn't been with the Collector in a while.

Ah, I had forgotten about Howard the Duck’s appearance in Guardians 2. You’re right, he’s off Knowhere. Doesn’t mean he survived the culling though. 

As for the first question, I believe Thanos desired it to be random, as his solution to his original planet’s over population was to randomly kill half, rich or poor, young or old, but would the Gauntlet somehow know which planets he had already done this to? Is it half from each planet/system or is it just straight up half of the universe, no matter if it’s 78% of the population of one planet and 40% of another. 

[Avengers: Infinity War (2018)]

4 hours ago, Wynterwolf said:

I wonder if this is kind of a make up for him being left out of Civil War

Back on the Civil War thread, I expressed my desire for Thor to show up at the end, in the Avengers version of that Community scene when Troy comes back from getting pizza and everyone’s fighting and the room’s on fire. A sort of, “I can’t leave you alone for five minutes” reaction. While the setup didn’t give Thor a moment to realize that, like the Beatles, the band had broken up, his absolutely rocking entrance (which should have been to a thunderous rock song even if it couldn’t be Immigrant Song) was so amazing I can’t be even be mad. Also, he needs to put a “who so ever be worthy” enchantment on Stormbreaker ASAP, so one, Thanos can’t pick it up because that would be even worse than what’s already happened, and two, when someone on the side of good inevitably has to use it, we can all know the hammer ax has judged them worthy. 

39 minutes ago, Dee said:

So apparently Joe Russo did a Q&A today, and confirmed that Valkyrie is alive, there are Asgardian refugees who escaped via pods, and that Tom Holland ad-libbed his death scene.

My first reaction is “yay” followed by sadness that half of those survivors were probably turned to dust. It’s been a rough what, week, for the Asgardians. 

Speaking of Spidey’s death, someone elsewhere pointed out that the reason he didn’t “feel so well, Mr. Stark” and seemed to be more aware than the others before he disappeared was because his Spidey senses were going haywire sensing the extreme and inescapable danger he was in. At first I thought he took longer because they used dramatic license to ensure maximum sadness for both Tony and the viewers, but that explanation makes it even sadder. And Tony’s going to have such guilt for this dust victim in particular even though he probably would have disappeared while sitting safely at school anyway. 

57 minutes ago, Shannon L. said:

I thought the same thing!

They missed a "no shit, Sherlock" moment. 

When Strange told Tony, “we’re in the endgame,” I thought to myself, “the game is afoot.” I wonder if Everett Ross survived.

[Avengers: Infinity War (2018)]

Although I cannot become invisible, I’m pretty much Drax when it comes to the pirate angel, so I am really glad to read that others loved him just as much. I came into this movie expecting to love all of Thor’s scenes with the Guardians and I was not disappointed. I loved the humor, but I especially loved his non-judgemental reaction when he learned Gamora was Thanos’ daughter. “Eh, we all have relations who turn into snakes and scare us or pull out our eyes and try to kill us. Doesn’t make us bad people.” Thor’s compassion is his best of many good features. 

That said, as much as I enjoyed Thor with Rocket and Groot and the rest, I am looking forward to scenes in the next film with all of the original Avengers. I loved Banner’s reaction to Thor’s return to earth and hope Earth’s Strongest Avenger will soon be back fighting alongside the Lord of Thunder.

I definitely think Valkyrie survived and left with refugees on the ship Loki took from the Grandmaster’s planet. Even if she had half of the remaining Asgardians, that itself being a small number of survivors from the destruction of Asgard, the amount would be even smaller if half of them were dusted by the snap. Or did their population already being significantly reduced factor into the effects of the snap? Would Gamora’s planet and other planets Thanos had already “fixed” by culling half the population be further halved or were they exempt? 

Speaking of the dusting, the two reactions that got to me the most were Rocket’s and Tony’s, but what I’m still thinking about hours later are the possible dustings and reactions we didnt see in this vast universe. Pepper is of course the main one, but there’s Happy too, Shuri, Aunt May (who was already probably worried sick for Peter) and Ned and MJ, Clint and Scott’s families, Sif, Wong, Sharon, the Grandmaster, and so many more. Matt Murdock could be gone or Trish or Foggy or any of the small screen characters. It will be interesting to see what AoS does in the next few weeks. And (gasp!) did Howard the Duck survive Thanos’ trip to Knowhere? 

The plane and car crashing in Fury’s scene reminded me of the departure in The Leftovers. At least here those left behind must have some clue what happened, not that it would help much to a parent who watched their child disappear or a child who lost their parents  

I get a kick out of imagining Vin Diesel delivering that most teenagerish “I am Groot” at being told he has to put down his video game. Even if there is no reset, I think Groot would still have a chance to return, because his arm is the handle to Stormbreaker. 

Strange definitely planned for this, but I would be less worried for the original Avengers if some of them had died in this one. I think someone’s going to have to pay the price to reset everything in the next. It seemed like they were throwing anvils at Thor and he dodged them despite seemingly being ready to go if it took out Thanos, while Tony got saved just in time by the time stone and Cap didn’t have much to do. 

[S03.E18: The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly]

This show. This ridiculous, delightful show, is by far the most entertaining thing on television right now. I cannot wait for its return. I was enjoying it all, from Ray drinking for Rip to Mick’s Hawk Chicken people reference to the Zari/Jonah Hex romance to Damien Dhark’s sendoff and then our lord and savior showed up and I actually jumped for joy. PRAISE BEEBO and praise the LoT writers for this brilliant season. Rarely do I watch a season finale and immediately want to watch the whole season again, but I am eagerly awaiting the day season three shows up on Netflix. 

BEEBO WANTS CUDDLES!