Rules

made me laugh

I’m currently on season 6 when Gideon comes to storybrooke, and It made me think of how I would have wanted the show to end/ an alternate storyline to the one we have. I feel like the perfect alternate storyline would have been Henry ending up as a villain, with of course a redemption arc in the end. I feel like Henry as a character is very chaotic in his decisions for example his want for destroying magic and what he does trying to make that happen. I also feel like the final battle could have also happened with him and Emma if this was the storyline they chose. Of course they would have had to change things with his character, and in my opinion it would have been better, because I feel like every other character gets a fleshed out personality and story line. Him being surrounded by darkness, for example his grandfather, Mr.gold, and Regina, could have played a role on how it was a bit easy for him to turn dark. Also I feel like in the scene where the evil queen wants Henry to crush the dragons heart could have been a good start at him turning dark. That’s pretty much how I wished the 6th season was. Of course I’m not a writer and just a fan, so this idea probably isn’t very good and they’re probably a bit of reasons why this wouldn’t work.

The writers made a shit mistake of making it that Zelena never died in the cell. Such an annoying bitch. I could not even stand the sound of her voice. The writers seemed to love torturing the viewers with her presence. Especially out of all characters to come back in the final season she had to make more than one appearance.

I’m sure this has been done before, but what houses do you think all the characters would have been in?

Rumple - obviously Slytherin for his ambition and pursuit of power

Belle - aside from her love of books and learning, she’s also creative, open minded, and she can be opinionated at times

I think it’s pretty obvious Emma and David would be Gryffindors lol and I’d put Snow there too, but I’d argue she could also make a good Slytherin with her resourcefulness.

I’d also wager Henry as a Ravenclaw. Honestly, maybe Bae too.

Nova seems like a Hufflepuff to me.

Thoughts?

Does anyone else find it weird that Robin Hood couldn't clock that the Marion he was reunited with definitely wasn't his wife? Like I get for him he hadn't seen her in years and im sure reconnecting would be weird regardless. But I would hope my husband would notice if I got replaced by an evil witch. I also don't understand how Zelena can do any magic in New York, let alone an illusion spell that she can keep up long term? And the emotional baggage on that woman she had to be slipping up all the time. I get they've been through a lot but come on.

Edit: you've heard of "would you still love me if I were a worm?" Now get ready for, "would you notice if I were killed and replaced by an evil witch that struggles to perform basic tasks and maintain healthy relationships?"

Is anyone else disgusted with how Rumple is treating Belle this season?

I’m currently rewatching as an adult. I was obsessed with the show when it was first coming out on Netflix. It must’ve been maybe 2011ish but I don’t remember for sure. Rewatching it now because I’ve watched a few times and have never been able to finish season 7. Furthest I’ve gotten was maybe one or two episodes in. Trying again to actually fully finish the show and I just hate how Rumple treats her this season. Like he’s so vile and vindictive to her now. Plus him with the EQ when he claims to love Belle is also disgusting to me.

I love them all as characters, don’t get me wrong, but his behavior is definitely making me feel some type of way this time around that it hasn’t made me feel before. Anyone else?

Did Lana get to play the most versions of her own character?

So at the end of the show, there’s 4 versions of Regina running around, am I right?

1. The main Regina, newly crowded the Good Queen.

2. The finale has a “Some Time Later” postcard, but Wish Henry hasn’t hugely aged, so it can’t have been the full jump to the future, so Past Mayor Regina is around somewhere.

3. As the realms are now reunited, the Evil Queen (Hyde serum) is somewhere in the Wish part of Storybrooke with Wish Robin.

4. And finally, Wish Evil Queen is out there, likely having gotten or trying to get her powers back with the crew from the Jolly Rodger. I can see her being very confused coming back to a united realm and seeing an alt version of herself in charge.

So happy birthday to all four versions of the character! 🎂

(I guess she also played Cora, Rumple, Gothel, and even the Evil Queen pretending to be Regina too)

Emma was raised in our world, we all know the amount of films and books that are about going back to the past and how it’s VERY important not to change a SINGLE thing. It irritates me so much how she goes to the past and immediately tries changing everything. Trying to save Marian at first, making those little comments “it’s a miracle how you two fell for each other” and then at the very end kidnapping and saving Marian. Like girllll, everyone knows you CANNOT change the past, if you do there are severe consequences for the future 🤦🏻‍♀️

What happened to milah rumples ex after he pushed her in the river of lost souls does she ever get a happy ending or at least brought back. I just can't seem to get past season 6 because it just gets worse from there in my opinion😂

Although I did enjoy the twist of making Lady Tremaine be an amalgamation of Lady Tramaine from Cinderella and Rapunzel from Tangled, I kinda wish that the show kept the characters separate and that the show went all in with adapting Tangled and other characters from Tangled, instead of doing another pointless adaption of Hansel and Gretel.

Nathan Parson would’ve been a perfect Flynn Ryder, imo. And maybe they could’ve casted someone as Rapunzel.

So, I’ve just finished my rewatch of OUAT and I still really don’t like most of season 7 and I have had some thoughts how I think it could have been improved.

Henry met and fell in love with Tiana and she is Lucy’s mum Her friend is Esmerelda, because why not Get rid of Wish.com Hook, have it be our Hook who fucked over Gothal back in his villain days and she comes back seeking revenge and kidnaps his and Emma’s daughter Alice. Emma goes off to find a way to get her out and then later to find the cure Have Faciler be a bigger villain instead of just, whatever the fuck he was doing, have him actually get the dagger and use it against Rumple, getting rid of Wish.com Rumple as well,have him cast the curse using Gothal to help him get the dagger and to bring his friends from the other side back to all the realms, putting them all in danger. And get rid of the Hansel serial killer stuff, because that was just rubbish.

So when Hades used the Olympian crystal on Robin Hood to “end” him, and Regina was there, heart crushed, while the music grew more dramatic, I was hoping that when she turned back to look at Hades, she’d go into Evil Queen mode, use her dark magic, and even light magic (like she did when she defeated Zelena), doing enough to take the Olympian crystal from him and destroy him. It would have been such a good watch because then she would be the one to avenge Robin😭

Oh wait I forgot that baby Robin is in the room💀can’t do a battle but imagineeeee

We are currently watching S2 and I am beyond fuming whenever Emma acts like Henry is her son - He isn’t!

Emma forfeit her rights when she gave him up for adoption and yet she thinks she can just swoop in 10 years later like "yea no, I changed my mind, I‘m his mother now and I call the shots, because I know what’s best for him".

The fact that Emma causally sees herself in the right to make any decision regarding Henry, without running it by Regina (his actual mother) gets my blood boiling.

Say what you want about Regina, but she has nothing but love for her son and after raising him for 10 years, she has to listen to Snow snarkily saying „well, I don’t think she needs your permission“ when Emma straight up kidnaps Henry and takes him to New York.

I’m back with another hot take I think. I’m more so interested in if anyone had the same thought process as me or if I’m just alone and crazy. Twice now Hook’s been used to do the bidding of others and it’s turned him into an awful man and that breaks his heart because he wants to change for Emma. My question is why. And I understand that blackmail is blackmail and he wants to protect Emma and her family. However, I think it’s fascinating that he did the bidding vs telling everyone what happened so another way could have been found. Zelena used him to get Emma’s magic (while he tried to restrain from this as long as he could and technically zelena put them in a predicament where emma had to kiss him) and Rumple’s using him to power the hat so he can get out before Ingrid’s curse hit. They’re just in a magical world and everyone’s always full of hope even when it seems impossible, so I feel like he could have easily told them all Zelena’s plan and they could have put a protection spell on Henry and all of her family members and I know with Rumple he had his heart so that’s a bit of a different story. But again, him and Rumple were separated for so long at times that I feel like he could have told Emma and they would have found something out or snuck back in to get the heart back or something. Maybe it had to be that way for the plot or because other storylines were bigger and so that would make sense. I’m just wondering if I was the only one who was like “tell them!!!” at the screen everytime something like this happens to Hook when’s he’s pulled to the side to do something awful.

I can’t stand him or his actions 😅. No hate toward the actor though. Just not my character.

*Warning: Content includes discussion/mention of sexual assault.*

Just rewatched S1 E7, which gives Graham's back- & present day stories. In the flashback when Regina takes his heart, it appears she's just using him as her "boy toy" - I'm assuming because she found him attractive & hadn't gotten any in a while? Or maybe she was using sex (or rather, rape) to assert her power/control over him? In any case, their "relations" seem to have started off as some sort of cruel punishment for Graham's defiance.

This sexually abusive dynamic continues under the Curse in Storybrooke, until Emma arrives & inspires certain events that lead Graham to realize that he needs to end his toxic relationship with Regina. But Regina looks (to me) genuinely hurt when Graham dumped her. She was even crying while crushing his heart as if she was truly sad about killing him.

I could be misreading her emotions, but did Regina actually grow to care for Graham? Did she kill him out of anger, spite, jealousy, hurt, or sadness because he rebuffed her?

Or was it because he was getting close to Emma & remembering his past life, which jeopardizes the Curse? I.e., she didn't care for him, her "use" for him expired, and he was becoming a threat. To quote Regina herself: "Do you know what I do with things that hold no value to me? I throw them away."

Which Flashback is by far the oldest?

I was thinking, in Season 1 we are introduced to a version of Maleficent which said she is retired witch, and says Regina should retire too. That implies give up and move on instead of pursuing vengeance, but Maleficent did not do that! In S4 we saw that she actually took vengeance and poisoned Aurora!

Though she was almost a different version of S1 Maleficent (same character ofc but with changed personality), we saw that this idea of Aurora being poisoned was introduced in S2 Ep1, before Maleficent was reintroduced and got a backstory in S4.

So S1 Maleficent actually is a Maleficent that cursed Aurora (that slept for 28 freaking years) and decided retire since then, not a Maleficent that failed constantly and decided move on and buy a pretty horse and sit peacefully to her fireplace as it is implied. We can basically said this plothole made her hypocritical to ask Regina to calm down.

So because he had a bunch of bad bosses he just decided to fuck with fairy tale lives. That is just pathetic.

It’s Neal/Baelfire who made a one-episode appearance in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit!! He looks so strange with longer curly hair

(Sorry for low quality photo)

I feel like a lot of people are unaware but zelena and Henry were suppose to have a scene together in 6x19. Right after regina was teaching zelena to drive and snow called to get Regina in the loop.

This was the scene:

ZELENA
(softly) You… put this crib together?

HENRY
(nods, without looking at her) Yeah. For her.

Zelena walks over and gently picks up Baby Robyn, rocking her in her arms. The baby’s cries quiet as she settles. Zelena glances back at Henry, who finally meets her gaze—his expression unreadable, guarded.

ZELENA
Thank you. I mean it.

Henry takes a deep breath and sits down on the armchair by the crib. He rubs his hands together, choosing his words carefully.

HENRY
You know… I used to think villains were just… bad people. That they did things because they wanted to hurt others. But now, after everything, I’ve realized it’s not that simple.

Zelena swallows hard, knowing where this is going.

HENRY
You killed my dad.

Her grip on Robyn tightens slightly. She lowers her gaze, ashamed.

ZELENA
I know.

HENRY
(voice tightening) Do you? Do you really?

Zelena flinches. Henry leans forward, elbows on his knees, anger and pain bubbling under the surface.

HENRY
You didn’t just kill a man, Zelena. You killed my dad. You took away someone who would have been there for me. Who wanted to be there.

Zelena blinks rapidly, guilt evident on her face. Baby Robyn stirs in her arms, sensing the tension.

ZELENA
I was jealous. Enraged. I wanted to hurt Regina, and I—I didn’t think. I didn’t care who got caught in the crossfire.

Henry shakes his head, standing up abruptly.

HENRY
That’s the problem. You didn’t care. You didn’t care about him. About me.

Zelena exhales shakily, holding Robyn closer, like she’s trying to shield her from her own past mistakes.

ZELENA
You have every right to hate me.

HENRY
I don’t hate you.

Zelena’s eyes flick up in surprise. Henry’s expression is still tense, but his voice softens just a little.

HENRY
If I did, I wouldn’t have built this crib.

Zelena’s lips part slightly, but she doesn’t know what to say. Henry gestures at Robyn, his voice calmer now.

HENRY
She didn’t do anything wrong. She doesn’t deserve to suffer because of what you did.

Zelena nods, looking down at her daughter, the weight of her past mistakes pressing down on her. Henry exhales, letting go of some of his anger.

HENRY
I don’t know if I’ll ever forget what you did. But… I do know you’ve changed. Or at least, you’re trying to.

Zelena looks up at him, eyes glassy with unshed tears.

ZELENA
I am. And I’m sorry, Henry. For everything.

Henry hesitates for a moment, then steps forward and—after a pause—wraps his arms around her. Zelena freezes in shock before slowly, carefully, returning the hug. Baby Robyn squirms between them, cooing softly.

HENRY
I forgive you.

Zelena lets out a shaky breath, nodding against his shoulder.

ZELENA
Thank you.

They pull apart, and Henry gives a small, hesitant smile before glancing down at Robyn.

HENRY
She’s lucky to have you.

Zelena’s breath catches, but she smiles—a real, grateful smile.

ZELENA
And I’m lucky to have her.

The tension in the room fades just a little. As Baby Robyn yawns, Henry gently adjusts the blankets in the crib. Zelena watches him, knowing she can never undo the past, but maybe—just maybe—she can build something better moving forward.

FADE TO BLACK.

I wanted to write a post only after I watched the entire series, but I'm getting the feeling that this is the last we see of the characters and Season 7 will follow another set so here I am.

I WISH I SAW THIS SHOW EARLIER 😭 This show is seriously one of the best I have seen. The plot, characters, setting, it's all imperfectly and perfectly enchanted. This is one of those shows I'll keep on thinking about and coming back to after I've seen it. I'm so glad I decided to start this one random morning, going down as one of my favorites.

My thoughts on the specifics divisions of the series:

Season 1 - The most well written season I think. They knew what they were doing and it was simply beautiful. The slow build up got me into the series

Season 2 - My favorite! The stakes were higher and the drama was more intense. I yelled at my TV when Belle was shot and that car drove into Storybrooke

Season 3A - I know the Neverland storyline is looked up to but tbh it was boring to me. They spent too much time chasing each other around, it only got interesting in the final act (Henry and Pan's body switch). Bought the greatest twist in the series though, Pan being Rumple's father.

Season 3B - My second favorite. Zelena was a strong follow up to Pan, and was the most infruriating villain since Regina. The stakes with her were high and after Neal's death, it felt like anyone could go. The resolution to her storyline, everyone going after her at the barn, is also my favorite season finale.

Season 4A - Tbh I didn't hate the Arendelle storyline. In fact, it had a lot of my favorite moments in the series, I liked seeing young Emma when she was in foster care and her dynamic with Ingrid was interesting. I still feel sorry for The Snow Queen even if I was annoyed with her for most part of the season lol, her sacrifice and flashbacks told a lot about her character. I just wish they Storybrooke-fied Elsa and all the new additions instead of having them walk around in their Disney clothes.

Season 4B - This is when the "good idea, bad excecution" started for me. They simply tried to do too much in this part, when focusing on one or two villains would've been better. The Author being a villain was an interesting twist, but he was introduced too late for me. They should've focused on him or Lily as the main villains instead of the pawns. It just all fell flat and forgettable in the end.

Season 5A - My least favorite arc. I thought I would like this cause the past two storylines didn't have a lot of stake and Emma being the dark one had a lot to bring. But it felt like it was being made up as it went along especially when it was revealed what actually happened. A lot of what happened previously didnt make sense at all, especially Nimue being the key to defeating the dark one when she was the one that needed to be defeated? I also didnt like Camelot and the Brave additions since really, they didnt bring anything new. Kinda liked the medival theme though

Season 5B - I liked this one better than the previous two. Took some getting used to the fact that we were dealing with Greek mythology now but the Underworld felt a bit more fleshed out. Cora did not deserve to go up to Olympus but oh well, Hades was an interesting villain and I almost wanted him to end up with Zelena. I wish there was more mythology integrated however, like Aphrodite or Hera or Athena, not just Hercules and Zeus. Funny how when they came face to face with a God was when the way to defeat him was the easiest though, cause he literally made the weapon for them.

Season 6A (Land of Untold Stories) - SO MESSY that I ended up loving it. All the random storylines made it feel like the early seasons. Jekyll and Hyde died too early for me, but it was interesting to see the Evil Queen wreak havoc again. I guess I just didnt know why the season started with Aladdin, when he ended up playing small role? Kinda hate how all the other people bought in was forgotten though after like, 6 episodes?

Season 6B (Gideon and the Black Fairy) - This was an awesome endgame. I loved how this made it even more a subtle family soap opera. I hope the Black Fairy came earlier, but I think this storyline was actually excecuted well. The final battle was a bit underwhelming, I wish there was more swordfighting and magic being thrown around, but it was overall satisfying from start to finish. It bought back Emma to the center, and they finally gave her the happy ending she deserves.

Idk if I'll post about Season 7 while watching it or just in bulk again, I think it depends if I like it or not but I am looking forward to it!