Death Cannot Stop True Love

[redbrunja]

I love everyone in this bar!


Abigail/Kathryn was delightful (although, seriously, stop giving the perv-eye to all these old dudes) and I am so glad she has a romance of her own but even before hand was like, "Charming, you're cute, but I am not marrying you. Especially since you have a rug on your head."

The way that the narrative stressed that it was the curse that was making David unable to spit out 'I'm in love with someone else' made that whole arc much more appealing, and I adore that scene at the end with Emma and Mary Margaret and Emma's EPIC BOOTS.

I really liked the scene with Charming and the siren.

And... those are my thoughts. Yours, flist?

Comments

[sunnytyler001.livejournal.com]

I think the curse took james' memories and HIS BRAVERY.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

EMMA'S BOOTS! I COVET THEM RATHER A LOT!

Um...yes, Abigail.

[erethesunrises.livejournal.com]

I was very happy with how they handle the love triangle (quartet?) in Fairytale Land. I still have my issues with Storybrooke but it looks like it's getting back on the track and is going to be solved which I am so grateful for. I'm glad Abigail has her true love and that Kathryn will probably meet hers soon~! Also, he is damn fine.

I always thought the curse had to do with how David's been acting but oh gosh I just hope it can all get resolved and such. I mean, not completely because then we wouldn't have a show but good on Kathryn for taking the step she did.

And ohhhhh man Lana is just delicious as Regina but oh gods so evil. So, so evil. Which I love in a villain but gah it's frustrating too.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

And ohhhhh man Lana is just delicious as Regina but oh gods so evil. So, so evil. Which I love in a villain but gah it's frustrating too.

Yeah, Lana's face just DOES things to my soul.

[zombie_boogie.livejournal.com]

I haven't been watching recently, but I did see last night's episode. I must have not caught the part where it's the curse that's making David act like an ass. That makes things... better I guess. Because I spent the episode being really, really mad at him.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That was never explicitly said; it just seemed really subtextually clear to me, looking at the way they contrasted David and Charming.

[tigerpetals.livejournal.com]

Agree with the two comments above me regarding some of the following two paragraphs.

I don't get where the curse was affecting David's bravery/honesty. I get where it was affecting Kathryn, though, that she was suddenly over him a little while after finding out the truth.

Regina is frustrating - that's a good thing, but still frustrating. On the other hand, David and Mary Margaret don't deserve Kathryn making them feel better and their relationship easier after having an affair. In public, even. Mary Margaret is less undeserving, because she was not the attached one, but no, coming clean after having that affair for a while doesn't equate to complete honesty.

Also, that scene handcrafting the book was beautiful. I've always had a thing for crafts - even though I haven't made any in a long time and was completely amateur - and I love books and paper on a physical level. The mystery regarding this writer is interesting as well.

The siren's kind of hokey to me. Some of it is just the general hokeyness -to me- of this show even when it's good. Partly because by now I've gotten bored of cleavage on skinny women. It's so silly, how they want to show you skinny women but they must have cleavage. No body fat whatsoever except in the 'right' places is just not interesting to me. I'll be mildly impressed if I ever see a skinny woman presented as sexy without flaunting what likely isn't there on them. (No, I'm not saying that no thin woman has big breasts, that thinness is unsexy, or that small breasts shouldn't be flaunted. Slim women are appealing to me, as well as more fat ones. I just think that presentations of sexiness are hypocritical here.)

Abigail was great, however. I remember fearing she would just be stereotyped, and I'm glad she has plans of her own and takes action on them. Kathryn too. I hope she's okay; I really wanted her to able to leave Storybrooke, even if her true love was still there.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Also, that scene handcrafting the book was beautiful. I've always had a thing for crafts - even though I haven't made any in a long time and was completely amateur - and I love books and paper on a physical level. The mystery regarding this writer is interesting as well.

I really like how several of the men in the cast are very crafty.

Some of it is just the general hokeyness -to me- of this show even when it's good. Partly because by now I've gotten bored of cleavage on skinny women. It's so silly, how they want to show you skinny women but they must have cleavage. No body fat whatsoever except in the 'right' places is just not interesting to me. I'll be mildly impressed if I ever see a skinny woman presented as sexy without flaunting what likely isn't there on them.

One of the many reasons I adore the movie Colombiana is that the lead actress, Zoe Saldana, is naturally very skinny and she trained for like, four hours a day, and it shows - she is presented (and is) very sexy, but there is not a scrap of extra fat on that girl - which is to say, she's pretty much completely flat-chested.

Abigail was great, however.

I love Abigail and I cannot wait to see more of her Storybrooke love story.

[lady-with-cats.livejournal.com]

I missed the 'curse makes David terrible' implications, so I was just mostly ticked off throughout. Prince Charming though; somebody needs to hug that guy.

I really loved that last scene with Regina and Kathryn too. It tied up their relationship really well. Regina didn't really go into it looking for a friend I think, but she's going to miss that feeling anyway.

EPIC BOOTS FTW.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

I'm also wondering how the curse made David act the way he did.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It was nothing explicit - but I've read interviews where... somebody talked about how the characters in Storybrooke were the opposite of who they were in the fairy tale lands... and the way that David couldn't seem to get the words out of his mouth when faced with Kathryn, contrasted with how he was as Charming, felt like that to me.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

As I said in the comment below, it was nothing explicit - it was the combo of people in interview saying that the characters in Storybrook were the opposite of their true selves plus the way that David couldn't seem to get the words out of his mouth when faced with Kathryn, contrasted with how he was as Charming, felt like that to me.

Regina didn't really go into it looking for a friend I think, but she's going to miss that feeling anyway.

*nods* I definitely got the sense that Regina didn't quite know how to feel the things that she was feeling.

[cynchick.livejournal.com]

So after seeing a commercial that looked vastly more interesting than the first few minutes I watched of the pilot, I decided to give this show another chance. There are still a lot of small details that I find questionable or ridiculous (like Belle and her father Mr. French being randomly Australian...or the fact that NO ONE reads contracts, even the damn master of bargains...). Snow/Charming are definitely carrying the show for me, and I'm sure a lot of people feel the same. And MY GOD that man is ridiculously attractive! Not just the structure of his face, there's something about him that's so appropriately charming. Brilliant casting there. I like that a lot of the cliche's about these fairy tales are being turned on their heads, even though some of the creative license is a bit wonky. Snow White in particular reminds me of the wonderful book The Bloody Chamber, which retells many old folktales through a feminist perspective. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it.

Totally related to that, one thing I really don't like is the narrative of 'a woman's life is unfulfilled unless she's a mother' that pervades the ENTIRE storyline. And the fact that MM gets ALL of the backlash for 'homewrecking' and David gets NONE, and the writers treat the town's reaction as completely normalized (which it IS, which is exactly what makes it problematic).

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

MY GOD that man is ridiculously attractive! Not just the structure of his face, there's something about him that's so appropriately charming. Brilliant casting there.

SO BRILLIANT. One of the things that made me give this show a chance in the first place was that I could see what a brilliant casting choice he was.

Totally related to that, one thing I really don't like is the narrative of 'a woman's life is unfulfilled unless she's a mother' that pervades the ENTIRE storyline

Tell me about it. Ugh. In general the adoption and motherhood metaphors they're working with DRIVE ME UP THE FUCKING WALL.