How can I start a review to this awesome beginning to a new season? Let's pretend I'm the Cool Aid guy busting through a brick wall! OH YEAH! IT'S BACK AND IT'S BRILLIANT! A disappointment at one point but who cares! Most of the episode rocked big time! Are we dealing with that same old curse anymore! Of course not! New problems, new adventures, new heartbreaks and new revelations on this second season of Once Upon a Time! I'm am sooo excited to begin! Come join me in a recap and review of the characters of Storybrooke and beyond!
MYSTERY MAN! :D
First off I will explain how I'm going to do this review. I'm going to focus individually on each characters story lines. All or most lead to the same ending but I hope I don't confuse you too much. Where best to start? At the beginning of course. We are shown a horse. Are we in Storybook land? NOT! This seems to be New York City. Why are we here following a man with his cell phone up to his apartment. He loses his phone while trying to pull down a window. A homing pigeon leaves a postcared which is from Storybrooke with only one word on the back "Broken." This is all we are seen of this mystery man during this episode. It looks to be that he's going to be our ongoing theme this year. Not a curse but a man. Possibilities you ask? Well, even if you didn't ask. Here are some. The obvious person is of course Baelfire! That's exactly where I went to in my mind when I saw him BUT we've been fooled before on that subject with August Booth last season. Anyway, wouldn't Bae be older? I don't know. Do we want to see a Bae who may be as old as his father meeting Rumpy? Well, we do have Emma who just as old as her parents and if Bae is Henry's father...well that's a whole other story. This mystery man could be Hook judging from summertime advertisements about him coming to Storybrooke but didn't this guy have both his arms. Hook has only one arm right? Then maybe he's Peter Pan himself and what if he's Henry's father. Would Emma really want Henry to know about his father if he eternally acts like a child? lol! Okay, moving on!
STORYBOOK LAND STORY!
We are with a man named Phillip and a mysterious unknown soldier as Phil rescues his Sleeping Beauty from a thorny castle. He kisses his Beauty and she wakes of course. Later it is revealed that the soldier is a woman and her name is Mulan! Yay, Mulan...but what?! Okay, so her love from the Disney movie seems to not exist. She has fallen in love with Phillip so it causes a problem between her and Sleeping Beauty. Also, there seems to be the problem of a wraith who has been awakened and takes Phillip's soul because he has the wraith's mark on his hand. The two women talk and exchange some things. Mulan mentions that most of Storybook land was destroyed by the Evil Queen's curse and the land they are in now is all that is left! Oh, so what we've been watching here wasn't the fairy tale past but present and what the Queen keeps saying through the episode about Storybook land being destroyed was only half-right. Some of it stills remains! The two women hear a strange sound and follow it to some rubble. Mulan moves some of it and who should be there but Snow and Emma. The wraith that destroyed Phillip had come from the their world! How many possibilities does this bring to the series? Now we have Snow and Emma in Storybook land! I so cannot wait till next time episodes! At the end of last season I was wanting Emma and Henry to be brought to that world. Thought it would be so awesome to see Emma's expression while looking at a unicorn. LOL! Well, she did see that dragon last year so seeing a unicorn may not phase her so much now. lol!
SNOW WHITE'S FAMILY
We see James and Snow together and happy. They meet up with Red, Granny, Grumpy and the other Dwarfs. Finally, a moment I've waited all summer to see happens here when Emma and Henry meet Snow and James for real! Wasn't that just a heartbreaking happy moment when Snow and Emma hug? When Henry said Grandpa was a funny and yet a sweet moment too. The group's conversation quickly turns to revenge when talk of the curse and Regina begins. Emma says Rumpy is really to blame. When Jim Cricket runs up saying Mr. Whale has stirred up the town to go after the Queen, Grumpy heartily agrees. Emma calms them down and says we shouldn't kill her. Finally, Henry says something he should have said more often last season. "She is my mother after all." So happy he has acknowledged this fact. Regina is his mother who has raised him for many years even if she can turn on him and possibly will someday just like she did her father. Hmmm. The group venture over to Regina's house where the crowd is ready to burn the witch. Regina thinks she has her magic back because Rumpy did bring magic back to the town last year remember? So she strikes out over the frightened crowd but nothing happens. Snow's family stop the crowd from attacking, asking who is Mr. Whale in the process, and take Queenie to jail for her own protection. Later, when a strange wraith-like creature attacks Regina in her cell the family join together to help Regina get rid of the thing. A nice moment occurs when Regina tries to use Jefferson's hat to suck the wraith into Storybooke world. Regina asks Emma if she really did promise to protect her because of Henry. A small smile formed on Regina's face at that moment. She seems to take comfort in the fact that Henry does care for her a little or was it more than that? With Emma's touch, the hat seems to work and so does Queenie's magic! Uh oh! With James' and Snow's help, the wraith is sucked into the portal but not before it grabs Emma's leg and pulls her in too! Snow jumps in after her daughter swearing never to lose her again. James tries to go after them but the hat turns off before he can follow. The Evil Queen is back! She straps James up against the wall but before she can do any major damage, Henry comes in and he makes her promise that if she truly loves him she help him find Snow and Emma and leave everyone else alone. Until then Henry will be staying with his grandfather, James! Yes! Take that Regina! I'm going to love to see James and Henry bonding with each other. Also, with all the adventures Snow and Emma are bound to get into in the other land I'm hoping their family problems will be solved in interesting ways. Those two girls are strong and I'm sure whatever trouble those two find themselves in they can definitely handle! Good times ahead!
EVIL QUEEN REGINA!
With magic restored to Storybrooke, Regina thought that her magic would be restored to her. She had a rude awakening when she tried to attack the crowd and nothing happened. She must have been relieved when the Snow family helped her even if it was by placing her in prison. Of course in Queenie style she tried to escape from her prison by fruitless trying to use her magic when a main magical person we love or maybe love to hate appears! WOW! This was another moment I was waiting for all summer! The confrontation between Rumpy and Regina! The air was only slightly taken out of the tire with the promise Rumpy made to Belle that HE would not kill Regina. What he does is grab Regina's hand and burns the mark of the wraith on her! This brands her as its victim. A little justice for the viewers as we watch Regina worry and almost get her soul sucked out before Snow saves her with fire. Now after the events of the magical hat has happened will Regina keep her promise to Henry to not harm anyone? I highly doubt it.
RUMPY AND BELLE!
I saved the best or at least my fav for last! Rumpy and Belle are still at the well. Rumpy has brought magic to Storybrooke and it seems the first thing this magic did was dye Belle's hair a dark brown! It looks really good on her though. Rumpy talks of taking revenge on Regina for keeping Belle locked up all this time but Belle makes him promise not to kill her. You can almost see Rumpy's urge to somehow work around this promise. The two of them kiss! Sweet but sad. We know something is up. Later, he summons a wraith from a necklace he had in his shop who goes after Regina. Emma and her family visit Rumpy and want to take revenge. Emma just wants to slap him. Oh, that will teach him. Spank the boy! lol! Rumpy turns things around saying everything turned out fine because of him and she should be thanking him. Also, she won't have to worry about Regina much longer. Belle hears him and runs out, hurt that he played with her words. Strangely enough after her walk, she returns and says she is staying to help him to stop being the way he is. I'm so happy that Belle is now a continuing character this season but the writers have got me worried on how much Rumpy really loves her. He's still battling his thirst for power with his love for her. Not to mention there's the Bae situation to deal with too. Belle seemed to forgive him way too easy for my taste too.
Oh my! What a show! This first episode of season 2 really shined and I think it set the feel of the season pretty well! What about you? Do you feel that this season is starting off great? What about those next time scenes! What will Emma and Snow get up too? Lots of questions! The end for now!
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