If any of you have yet to watch
the episode of Once Upon A Time that
aired last night, entitled ‘Lost Girl’, then now would be the time to do so. As
always, below may include spoilers pertaining to the aforementioned episode. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
You’ve been warned.
Not a bad episode, compared to
last week’s premiere. I’m not too fond of the scenes that don’t focus on the
characters I most like and most believe are deserving of onscreen time, but I
got through most of the scenes otherwise. Could be because I tend to be a
selfish person, and I want what I want, but I really wished there’d been more
Emma. I know the episode had a lot of focal points surrounding her, but I still
really want another Emma focused episode soon, with some more scenes to
enlighten us on her life before Storybrooke. Although, I’m not really too sure
how much there is, other than the whole giving up of her son, and kind of how
she came to that decision, even though that’s been implied to be because Neal
abandoned her.
Unsurprisingly, my favourite
scenes from this episode were anything between Emma and Hook, and Emma and Pan.
Just the subtle chemistry interspersed between Hook and Emma gets me incredibly
excited, particularly because when dealing with a series based around fairytale
characters that have their one true loves, love triangles aren’t a big thing. I
know there’s the whole thing with Mulan liking Philip, but he so obviously
loves Aurora – who is a terrible actor, by the way – so her feelings are pretty
much moot. But these feelings between Hook and Emma, and Emma and Neal are kind
of love triangle territory, which a lot of people don’t like, but the series
isn’t based around it, like The Vampire
Diaries, so there’s the ability for a ripe amount of stories. People have
made a valid point about Neal being Emma’s first love, and that he really
didn’t try to find her after he learned the spell had broken, but there are
still feelings there despite this.
Once again I’m going to commend
Robbie Kay for his rendition of Pan. His scenes with Emma were also really one
of my favourites, because he is just a terrific actor. The boy acts circles
around the rest of the cast. I may be reading too much into things, but I
caught vibes of him being attracted to Emma. Though, that could also be due to
his weird fetish of collecting lost children, and Emma still very much feels
like that lost girl that was orphaned, as verified by the title of the episode.
Either way, I would still very much like more scenes between the two, because
they play off each other rather well.
The other acting I need to praise
for this episode is Jennifer Morrison’s. Her performance as Emma in this
episode was very good. She seems to be one of the stronger actors in this
series. Sometimes her acting can fall short, but I didn’t see that here. I
particularly liked her rather dry speaking while she stared at the blank
parchment with her hands on either side of her face. She’s extremely good at
playing the hardened, tough girl character, and I really like getting to see
that side of her. Damaged characters are a favourite of mine.
As always, Colin O’Donoghue was
wonderful as Hook. Is it weird that two of my favourite characters in this
series are both played by British actors with their natural accents, or do the
Brits just tend to have better actors? Either way, I adore this man, I’m so
glad he’s one of the series regulars. I wasn’t so gung ho when he was first
bumped up last season after a short period of time, but every time he isn’t all
about his hatred of Rumplestiltskin, the man is a wonderful actor. Maybe it has
something to do with his sardonic sense of humour…
Wouldn’t it be awesome if, by the
time they all got to Henry, that he was so different, another actor had to play
him? Maybe that’s just hopeful thinking, but the actor that plays him is
unbelievably terrible. He was okay in the pilot, but afterwards, going through
a growth spurt, he just got so much worse. If only he could just be killed off.
I was honestly just so glad he wasn’t in this episode. He’s not bad when he’s
just acting normal, but whenever he has to play some form of heightened
emotion, he’s genuinely awful. And that really is any heightened emotion.
While hair extensions don’t always
look good and realistic, and the costumes for the characters in present day time
aren’t that great, this series does always seem to dress the Queen in gorgeous
costumes in the Fairytaleland That Was. Okay, Snow White usually has pretty
cool costumes too, but it’s the Queen’s that takes the cake.
I’m just going to ask, what was it
with Rumplestiltskin this week? Just so they can throw Belle in (who for some reason
has an Australian accent when a) she’s supposed to be French, and b) none of
her kingdom has the same accent) they have Rumplestiltskin imagine her up to
work through his problems. I mean, really, what was the point of that? Just to
have Belle kicking around, make sure we know she hasn’t gone anywhere? She didn’t
really add anything to the scene, because I was just struggling to figure out
whether she was actually there half the time. The only interesting thing he did
was cut off his shadow. But what was it with bringing the dagger? You know it
can kill you, so why bring it with you? Does it have to come with you? Is there
some rule that it has to be in the same realm as you? I just don’t know.
I have to say I was pretty bored
with the Charming and Snow White scenes, they didn’t really add much that hadn’t
been seen before. It also didn’t seem that necessary to randomly bring
Giancarlo Esposito into this episode for that exchange between him and the
Queen, when he’s so much better over on Revolution,
where the writing is actually good. The whole Excalibur thing had me confused
there for a minute, but then it turned out to be fake, but what was the whole
deal with having it in the opening title when it wasn’t even there?
My rating: 6.5 out of 10.
Best Lines:
This exchange: “Don’t hold your breath.” – Regina. “What’s
that supposed to mean?” – Emma.
“I’m winning you over, I can feel it.” – Hook, referring to
Charming.
“You said it, not me.” – Grumpy to Charming, the best part
being the way he said it to him.
Okay, I’m going to take a little break, and then go and
watch Revenge. Check back in a little
over an hour for that.
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