OUaT 3.08: Think Lovely Thoughts
Subtitle: Too bad this show has as low an opinion of adoptive mothers as it does teen girls who choose adoption
OUaT 3.07: Dark Hollow
Subtitle: The Hipsters are coming
OUaTiW 1.04: The Serpent
This week opens with wee Jafar and closes with Cyrus Doing Stuff and the bits in between were pretty good, too. Long ago in Agrabah, little Jafar is the bastard son of the sultan raised as a peasant-servant and little more than a slave. Poor bb. He sees a witchy woman and rather than hide …
OUaT 3.06: Ariel
Subtitle: I can’t stand Neal but Jennifer Morrison cries beautifully
OUaT 3.05: Good Form
Subtitle: Blue Satin Bow
OUaTiW 1.03: Forget Me Not
This is a show about excellent faces. Hurray, this episode was good! No caveats good! I only really rolled my eyes once. Because Jafar is still a mess. Naveen Andrews: Great! Jafar: …not so much (to be fair, I have the same feelings about Rumplestiltskin. Possibly I just don’t like smarmy manipulative bastard type characters. …
OUaTiW 1.02: Trust Me
Apologies for being a week late, I spent last weekend at and traveling to and from GeekGirlCon and am only now starting to catch up! I really want to like this show. I really, really do. I want to love this show. But this show is making it so hard! My basic complaint is that …
OUaT 3.03: Quite a Common Fairy
Subtitle: Rumplestiltskin and Neal are both basically horrible people
OUaTiW 1.01: Down the Rabbit Hole
So this was a pilot. I never really look at a pilot as representative of a show – it’s made to be picked up by a network and that is not necessarily going to be characteristic of the series audience. That’s not to say pilots are never representative of the show or that they can’t …
OUaT 3.2: Lost Girl
Subtitle: Layers and layers of Emotional Manipulation