Crimson Belle

Well, to those of us who felt Regina's "redemption" seemed artificial and inauthentic, kind of like a tofu ribeye, the Marian scene showed it to be artificial and inauthentic. If Regina was really "redeemed" as opposed to being "good" when it was in her self interest or the interest of her son to do so, then she would have been feeling overwhelming remorse for all the people she killed to the point that even one less death should result in the feeling of overwhelming relief. Instead, it's all "me,me, me" still with her so that the first instinct is anger and blame that Emma saved someone from being killed by Regina. And the entire, "that's not Regina, that's the Evil Queen" stuff pissed me off. Regina is psychotic probably, but she doesn't have multiple personality disorder. They are the same person, and it's ridiculous for the characters to act like they're not.

It would be like this show to have Emma's powers gone for good, because well, Regina and what not. Can't have two powerful people. But if this show were creative (in other words, this will never happen), the green necklace has Emma's powers trapped in it. And Regina knows it, hence her little smirk and evil laugh.

So fairly obvious a TLK is what will restore Emmy's powers, if any of us will even care at that point.

7:43 p.m. CST, mass vomiting ensues. Rumple is a nasty conniving fellow.

Well the Marysueing of a genocidal rapist with no regrets for anything had pretty much turned this show to shit. Now it's explosive diarrhea with an side of ebola. Maybe for their next SHOW Adam and Eddie can do a crime fighter show where Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, Hitler and Pol Pot save the world. Because they're really all misunderstood you know.

If somebody who makes Charles Manson look like a saint gets white magic, then that would be the biggest bunch of BS tripe (and I mean that in terms of rotten stinking animal guts) that I've seen on probably not just this show, but any show. But, given the screwed up morality that the creators portray, it might be par for a very sorry course.

Definitely before Miller's Daughter. Cora is pregnant with the Green Monster, and she's older than the perpetual victim, so it has to be before.

So Cora lies to Leopold in an effort to pass another man's child off as his after she gets him to marry her under false pretenses, but Eva is the bad guy for telling her former fiance about it? The creators of this show have a really screwed up unrealistic sense of morality. And on a scale of one to boring, this was a 38.

Season 1 was by far the best. 2 is a disaster. 3 is somewhat better than 2. On another note, for a show that invokes the premise that "evil is made, not born", they sure as hell seem to go out of the way to portray nature over nurture by having children take on the characteristics and choices of their parents. Emma is very much like Snow and Charming, in many ways, minus her issues with trust and such, and the show and publicity folks go out of their way to emphasize that with the pictures of how she holds her sword, etc. Despite having been raised by Regina, Henry is much more like the Charming side of the family. Despite having not been raised by Cora, one bad things turns what's her face/dead witch walking (I presume) into a mini-Cora. Regina is much like Cora in how she reacts to being slighted, though obviously nurture could play a role there. Neal ended up making the same mistakes his father did, abandoning his family and putting his wants/needs to get back to Emma/Henry over what was good for the rest of the realm. I'm sure there are other examples, but it just strikes me that, as often is the case, what the show shows me is very different from what the creators tell me they are showing.

We already have that character who thinks everything she has done is okay because she got what she wanted in the end. Amen about problematic morality. What I find a bit ironic is that Neal, despite his hostility towards Rumple and despite the condmenation of his actions, turned out to be exactly like him. Neal always seemed to make the wrong decision most of the time, and always seemed a bit of a coward and the guy who took the easy way out. The "I had no choice" is as big an example of self-delusion as anything Regina thinks about herself, though of course Neal's abandonment of Emma doesn't match the genocide, rape and multiple murders committed by Regina.

I've always thought of him as not much more than a glorified prop for others to react to. Even though many of the plots involved the character, Neal was really just a vehicle to bring about reactions and behaviors in Emma and Rumple, and he really didn't even need to say a word to do it for the most part. Edited to add: JMo really has advanced Emma's character. I remember her saying the year in New York would make her softer. In her scene with Snow and Charming, Emma was much more open in terms of allowing her tears to show. The first season (a few what months? before in show time), she wouldn't ever have shown that much emotion, even around Mary Margaret.

With Neal at this point, it's simply a matter of going through his clothes and looking for loose change.

So I guess with Rumple dead, the Dark One curse was over, no new Dark One was created when Rumple died because he technically killed himself. Then Neal resurrected the curse. Dumbass, dumbass, dumbass, dumbass.

My crackpot and likely untrue theory is that Neal cast the dark curse, using his own heart, because from the smugness that seems to radiate off of him like stink off Peanuts' Pig-Pen, I think Neal loves him some Neal more than anything else in the world.

I am emerging from the dark depths of unfair TWOP banishment to rejoin all you gloriously snark folks.