Once Upon a Time REACTION - S02E20 - The Evil Queen
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I completely agree with you. Overall... I really love season two, especially because it brings my favorite character into the show... Hook. :) However, because of those among my least favorite characters throughout the entire series... Greg, Tamara, Neal, and Cora, and their major storylines throughout this season, if I had to say what my least favorite season is, it would be season two despite loving so much of it as well. Mostly the first half of the season. I do agree with you that Henry feels pretty weak in this season, as does Regina too. I still love them both, especially Regina. But I do understand what you mean by saying the writers don't seem to know how to write their characters for now. The first half of the season is definitely so much better than the second half of the season.
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2019-10-11 22:48:10 +0000 UTCMy biggest complain regarding this season is how the writers clearly don't know how to use Henry 90% of the time. He's supposed to be really smart and was able to put the pieces together between the book and the people in the town all by himself. He tracked down Emma again by himself, and he came up with a lot of the decent plans in season one. In this season it feels like after he served his purpose of getting Emma to believe, they just kinda tossed him aside by turning him into an emotional anchor that Emma and Regina throw back and forth, with only the occasional return to form like in this episode.
Atticus Omundson
2019-10-11 22:27:59 +0000 UTCThank you so much for another fantastic reaction for a good episode!!! :) Hook is definitely back, which I absolutely love!!! And boy was he angry upon discovering that Rumplestiltskin is still alive. While I really don't like Greg and Tamara at all, I do like seeing them form an alliance with Hook by throwing his failure to kill Rumple in his face in order to get him on their side. I don't like them, but they are at least smart enough in this episode to use Hook to lure Regina into a trap. I truly feel like Hook was genuine in wanting to side with Regina once they started working together, until Regina of course betrayed him when she pushed him off the cliff in the mines to face off against what's left of Maleficent in her mummified form. If Regina hadn't have betrayed him, I think Hook would have eventually turned against Greg and Tamara, and helped Regina gain back her magic by removing the cuff for her. Unfortunately for us, we'll never know. I love the moment when Hook talks to Regina about how their lust for revenge, should they finally succeed in gaining it, will be the end of their lives because they will have no purpose to live any longer. It's so sad for him that he feels that all he's meant to do with his life is to try to kill an immortal being that can't seem to be killed despite all of his efforts, and then that he expects to die in doing so. It's tragic really, and it's also one of my favorite moments in this episode. It shows a much deeper side to Hook and I love it! And then sadly, Regina has to make the pain we see in his eyes in that moment worse, by rubbing it in that she still has Henry to live for once she gains her revenge against Snow White and everyone else by destroying all of Storybrooke and everyone in it with her fail safe. Now... after Regina pushes Hook off the cliff to face Maleficent, she walks over to what we see again to be Snow White's glass coffin, which was shown to be within the bottom of the mines back in season one's episode, That Still Small Voice. And at last we find out the purpose for Regina having hidden it down within the mines where it wouldn't be found... because Snow's coffin is where Regina hid the small blue jewel that is her fail safe with the power to destroy all of Storybrooke. However, before she can do anything with it, she returns to the library only to discover Hook is still alive as he's standing in front of her, having beat her back up somehow... a way that is never explained aside from that Greg and Tamara somehow helped him escape from Maleficent. If there's one little nitpick I have with this episode... it would be that. I would have loved to know how Hook got away from her. And now... Regina has been taken captive herself by Greg and Tamara. I honestly liked watching Hook's facial expressions throughout this scene any time they showed him, whether in the forefront, or in the background. He's certainly thinking carefully over every conceivable option. Next... I also love the backstory in the Enchanted Forest with Regina, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin, as Regina at last accepts and declares herself to be the Evil Queen. I love this smile she always makes in powerful moments like this. It's perfect and so evil. Rumplestiltskin is hilarious and fun like always... when he comes to Regina bragging about the villainess she's become. And then, she asks Rumple to first teach her a cloaking spell, but when he states that it can't be taught so quickly, she then asks him if he can cast the spell on her so she can go out unseen among the villages to find Snow White. In doing so, she learns exactly what her people think of her... that they hate and ridicule her, while they love and adore Snow White. To be honest... I felt that it was a little strange that Regina was so blinded by her hate for Snow, that she didn't understand why her people hated her so much and why they couldn't see Snow White to be the villain she saw her as. However, it is true that the deep hatred someone has for another like Regina feels towards Snow, can certainly twist your sight and believe so much so that you can't see straight. Hook feels this way towards Rumplestiltskin. The only real difference is that Hook never sees himself as anything more than the villain he is. He isn't blinded to the fact that he is a villain. He knows it with every fiber of his being, which only continues to be more apparent as his character is developed further along. But back to the story... Regina attempts to confront a few of her Black Guards once she's cloaked, so the guards don't actually recognize her, just as no one else does. Everyone only sees her as a crazy woman trying to mock the Queen. The guards then arrest Regina and nearly behead her, until none other than Snow White herself appears in time to save her. I really love seeing Snow care for this woman she believes to be only an innocent peasant woman, as she treats Regina's wound she receives in the fight against the guards, as well as her fever. Snow cares for Regina in a course of two days, while she talks about her hop that Regina will one day come to be the woman who once saved her from her runaway horse years ago. These scenes between them are really beautiful and for a moment... Regina even feels Snow's kindness in her words and thinks that they might have a chance to become a family again despite everything that's happened between them. And I actually really like this, despite it seeming almost unbelievable after seeing how deep Regina's hatred for Snow really goes for so long now. Unfortunately, Snow then discovers the bodies of the villagers Regina killed for them harboring Snow. And Snow is livid and takes back everything she said about Regina possibly changing to be a better woman again. Then, Regina let's slip that she is somehow really Regina and Snow threatens to kill her. However, she can't go through with it because she doesn't have the heart to do so. And Regina runs back to Rumplestiltskin's castle to the Dark One, because she's still trapped under Rumple's cloaking spell. And Rumple shows up again at last and continues to mock her before he finally undoes his magic to make her herself again. I really love their interactions together. As for the Storybrooke storyline between Emma, Henry, David, Mary Margaret, Regina, and Neal... I like the dilemma with everyone wanting or not wanting to return home to the Enchanted Forest. However, I don't really like the moment between Regina and Henry when she tells him about killing everyone using her fail safe because it's obvious what Henry's reaction would be upon hearing that his mother wants to kill everyone else he loves and she should know that. But c'est la vie. She then erases his memory of their conversation too. It's sad. Poor Henry. Trouble is definitely coming up for the final two episodes. And lastly... I didn't really like the scene between Emma, Henry, and Neal as they're investigating Tamara. I understand why Emma is suspicious of Tamara and I like that, but the moment Neal comes in, the scene between them was just awkward and weird. I didn't like it. But then... I also don't really like Neal much either, as I've said before too. Overall... I enjoyed this episode a lot and I'm so excited for you to watch all that's to come. Thank you again!!! Until next time...
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2019-10-11 22:00:22 +0000 UTC
