Once Upon a Time REACTION - S01E08 - Desperate Souls
Added 2019-07-04 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
Here's my highlights reaction to the eighth episode of OUaT!
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I know what you mean. :)
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2019-07-05 03:48:52 +0000 UTCI just wish we could have seen Rumple's face turn dark and impish, but I guess that effect would have been too expensive lol
Atticus Omundson
2019-07-05 03:42:59 +0000 UTCThank you! What a great episode! It's definitely one of the stronger episodes and the actor who plays Gold, Rumplestiltskin, and the cowardly Rumplestiltskin before he was the Dark One... is phenomenal. No one could play this character, or any side to him better. He's just fantastic. And yes... Rumplestiltskin most definitely plays all sides. :) About the scene where Rumplestiltskin enters the castle to retrieve the dagger... it definitely feels strange and it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's really one of the only scenes throughout this episode that I didn't care for, because while I liked Rumple's overall plan to get inside the castle... I feel like scene was poorly executed and could have been done differently. First... it seemed strange that they didn't at the very least show soldiers and guards running from the castle's room where the dagger was hid upon it catching fire. However, for me it also felt strange to me that the lead soldier who is holding power over the Dark One would keep the dagger someplace where anyone could easily steal it during the chaos created by the fire, including the Dark One himself while in the disguise of the beggar, unless of course the soldier commanded the Dark One to never touch his dagger again, or something like that. But anyone else could have surely stolen it from within the castle I think. And I think that this soldier would have been smart enough to keep the dagger on him, or at least someplace more secure and secret so it wouldn't be found and stolen. Overall... I loved both the past storyline and the present storyline in Storybrooke. Both are really well done. I loved not only Rumple, but of course Emma and Regina too. And Jared Gilmore's (Henry) acting is definitely approving, and it continues to do so throughout the series. I have a few favorite lines. I especially loved Gold telling Emma he knows how to recognize a desperate soul, just as the former Dark One told Rumple. This line shows just how cunning and tricky Gold/Rumplestiltskin, or the Dark One can really be. Fabulous! I love, love, love the moment between Emma and Mary Margaret at the election, as Emma shares with her her reasons for wanting to win the election... to show Henry that heroes can win by doing the right thing despite the villains' trickery. And then... I love the moment Rumple becomes the new Dark One. Very dark and creepy, and so amazing too. What a brilliant idea to make the Dark One controllable by a magical dagger and for the power of the darkness to become transferred into whoever kills the Dark One with the dagger. As for Zoso... I really liked the darkness and eerie feel for the previous Dark One, and how he managed to manipulate Rumplestiltskin into stealing the dagger, then to get him to use it to kill him in order to get Rumplestiltskin to take on what had become too much of a burden for him. The darkness and the power that comes with becoming the Dark One... the price, effects each Dark One differently and each person connects to it differently. As you have seen with Zoso and Rumplestiltskin. Thank you again! Overall, this was an excellent episode and I really enjoyed your reaction for it. Everyone's appearances throughout this episode were brilliant, especially the encounters between Emma and Gold, as well as between Gold and Regina, and Regina and Emma. Until next time...
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2019-07-05 03:33:16 +0000 UTC
