All those that have yet to watch
last night’s episode of Once Upon A Time,
titled ‘Save Henry’, now would be a good time to go and do that. For this is
not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY
CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.
Well, I have to say that I am not
at all happy with the direction that this series is going in. This series –
aside from the Emma and Hook moments, and a few fleeting Emma and Neal moments
– has gotten so terribly bad. Not only have these last nine episodes only
expanded across a handful of days, but when it finally comes to a somewhat
conclusion of the, not Pan story but, Neverland story it’s so beyond easy that
it is ridiculous. Honestly, is that all it took to defeat Pan’s attempts at
stealing Henry’s heart? Regina just takes
it out of his chest? Did Pan really not see that coming?
They really appear to be trying to
redeem Regina somewhat and make her a morally gray person. She’s not what
appears to be the villain of the piece, and that’s really detracted from this
series. I get trying to bring fairytale stories to the real world in a
realistic way, but sometimes a villain is a villain, and giving them heart just
because their actress is good doesn’t always work in the best interest of the
overall piece. Maybe no one is wholly good, or wholly evil, but people do veer
towards each end of the spectrum, and not everyone is redeemable.
This episode really could have
been so good. Unfortunately, the writing just didn’t click, and the acting was
half-assed at best. Even someone as strongly favouring of Emma as a character
as myself thought that her “mothering” the lost boys, and that dreadfully
written speech, just came across as near pathetic. It needed so much more
passion behind it, and that’s just not something I felt. For a mother that was
coming close to losing her son, she didn’t seem too embroiled about saving him.
She certainly wasn’t anywhere near as impassioned as Regina was this week at
trying to save Henry. Honestly, Regina was about the closest thing to being a
strong point this week – for the most part.
Overall, I don’t think I’ll stop
watching this series any time soon – because I really need to see where it’s
going with Hook, Emma, and Neal – but I do feel like it’s lost its heart. It
just doesn’t have that freshness it came to have during the first season, and
even parts of the second season. The closest it’s had this year to greatness
were fleeting moments that likely don’t even encompass one full episode. And
don’t even get me started on this whole Henry centric season, or the fact that
he is in no way capable of encompassing how bad ass Pan has been this season –
up until last week’s reveal that he is Rumplestiltskin’s father. Anyways, until
next week with this series. Please let it be good.
My rating: 5.5 out of 10.
There were no favourable lines this week.
Okay, by this coming out, I hope you get the hint that I will
not be posting a review for Dracula this
week. Unfortunately, it just has not caught my attention in four episodes, and
I will likely be falling behind now until I feel the need to catch up. Which
could very well not happen for a great deal of time, so no more reviews likely
of this series in its future – however short that may be. Anyways, check back
in tomorrow for reviews of How I Met Your
Mother, Almost Human, and The Blacklist.
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