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Once Upon A Time Season 2 Episode 14 Manhattan (Patreon)

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Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Manhattan- If I've told you once, I've told you twice... Once Upon a Time's twists are phenomenal and there are so many you just don't see coming!! I really love this episode a lot! Because there were so many big reveals and it leaves you sitting there staring at the screen with your mouth wide open, wondering... What on earth just happened? This episode isn't one of my favorites like it is for so, so many other fans. However, I really do love it, nonetheless. It's really good. But man... I really hope other commenters aren't trying to discourage you from feeling a certain way about an upcoming event, or warn you not to feel so excited about something to come. For me personally... While the reveal of what's inside the box may perhaps be over-dramatized, I still really love it. It makes sense to me why August would reveal he knows the truth to Neal that he knows he's really Baelfire. And I actually really love it! Please feel free to feel any way you wish to feel and get excited for the big revelations, and/or let down by them if it's how you really feel when they come. Don't let us try to influence you to feel the way we feel. Now... I believe I've mentioned this before, but I'm not a really a fan of Neal's character since his introduction in the sixth episode, titled... Tallahassee, for a few reasons. Mostly because I don't really care all that much for the actor who plays him. At least not in other shows. Here in Once Upon a Time, he's fine. Although, he's not one of my favorite characters throughout this show by any means. And for other reasons being more biased than others, and for reasons yet to be revealed. I didn't like him at all in Tallahassee, because I just didn't like his character. Especially for how he hurt Emma, in spite of August's role in Neal abandoning her. I can't say too much more because doing so would be spoilery. However, with this being said... I really do love how Neal turns out to be not only Henry's father like we knew about from Tallahassee, but also Gold's son as well. And I really do like him in this episode, probably more so than I do in any other episode. I should have realized he would be Gold's son right away upon seeing that Mr. Gold brought Emma and Henry to New York City to find his son, as we knew from this season's premiere episode... Broken, that Neal also lived there, and is the only character we somewhat knew about outside of Storybrooke in which the big shock factor would make sense. Another heck of a coincidence... or not. :) I still just didn't see this reveal coming, which is really smart. Nonetheless... I hope you continue to like Neal as a character yourself should you continue to like him as most fans of this show do. Like I said above... I love the flashback to Tallahassee, when it's finally revealed what August shows Neal inside his box tied to the back of his bike. It's clear Neal knew about magic when August reveals what's inside the box, but that still could have meant Neal could have been anyone from the Enchanted Forest. So, this reveal that August knew that Neal is Gold's son, Baelfire, for me wasn't so obvious, and I really love it. And I really love the simplicity of the way August proves to Neal that he needed to hear him out... with merely a simple sentence typed from his typewriter on a single piece of paper... "I know you're Baelfire." It's really brilliant. Because who in the real world could have possibly known who Neal really was given his age since he and Rumple are now both over two hundred years old, other than someone from the Enchanted Forest. It's been said that Rumple has been the Dark One for hundreds of years, so Neal is definitely older than he appears to be. :) However, speaking of coincidences... I really like Neal's explanation to Emma about them, and fate, and how they both wonder if Emma meeting and falling in love with Neal those twelve years ago is somehow fate that wanted to see them together, in order to set in motion Emma becoming the Savior and her and Henry becoming the tools Gold would use to help him find his son after so many years. I really love their talk. I also completely understand Emma's anger towards Neal, as well as her fear for wanting Henry to know the truth about Neal too. It's wrong for sure that she would lie to Henry about his father, but it's understandable because of what Neal had done to her when he let her take the fall for the theft of the watches, putting her in prison, and forcing her to give birth to Henry while in prison. It's so sad. And I certainly do not blame her in the slightest, especially upon learning more about her own past and why she is so guarded and distrusting. And yes... Henry is absolutely too harsh towards Emma when he tells her she is just like Regina now, because Regina had lied to him all his life. Emma most certainly doesn't deserve that at all. She is in no way at all like Regina. Next... Rumple and Baelfire are finally reunited, which means there are more big revelations to come. And what a reunion! I can also understand Neal's anger towards his father too. Rumple promised his son he would never abandon him, and yet when his own fear of becoming powerless once again overpowered him, he abandoned him after all. And then... one of the first things Gold tells to Neal after being reunited with him again, is that together they can have power and that he can erase Neal's bad memories by turning Neal back into the same fourteen boy he was before he abandoned his son. Once again, Gold shows that he still doesn't understand why his son wanted to get away from magic and his lust for power that Neal knows his father loves more than even him. I can't blame Neal for refusing to want to be a part of his life. Gold has not learned his lesson, and therefore he hasn't changed. Not in all the ways Neal needs him to change. Magic is still very much just a crutch for him. Also... I really, really love the backstory with Rumple before he was the Dark One, and the Seer. And this is actually my favorite storyline throughout this episode. I think the Seer is a brilliant character and very eerie, especially with her eerie voice and her eyes being within the palms of her hands. I love her character, and the actresses who play her very much. Both her adult actress and her child actress. And I love how her first big prophecy... that Rumple's actions on the battlefield would leave his son fatherless, comes to pass because he attempted to save himself from being killed in battle when he cowardly injures himself to the point of becoming the cripple we see him as without his magic, then becomes branded as a coward, causing Milah to leave him and him to abandon his son once she comes to meet Killian Jones (Hook), upon Rumple's fear of becoming powerless once again after he had become the Dark One. Wonderful! I can understand the two different perspectives regarding Rumple becoming branded a coward. I understand that he was afraid to leave his son without a father, which is a main of course for why he chooses to cripple himself in order to avoid death, having come to believe that the Seer's prophecy absolutely means that he would die. Which it doesn't. She simply states that his actions would leave his son fatherless, which can mean so many things. And yet... I also understand why people, and even Milah would come to see him as a coward, because to them, Rumple injures himself simply in order to avoid death, which in real life and in times of war... This would absolutely be seen as desertion. The people wouldn't care to believe him should Rumple tell them about the prophecy. Not even his own wife did. Plus... Chances are that every man on those battlefields fighting in the Ogre War were all fathers too, and so, so many men and women still gave their lives despite being fathers. In reality... Rumple fear of abandoning his son as his own father had done, is no real excuse for willingly injuring himself to avoid death. So yes... I understand both perspectives. Even Milah's perspective. I still absolutely hate her, and I have no idea what Hook ever saw in her. That's for sure. But I do understand her just a little more, for certain. And then, years later after Rumple becomes the Dark One, he finds the Seer again and as Rumple kills her in order to steal her power to see into the future, the path of Rumple finding Regina to cast his curse that would eventually lead him to finding Henry, therefore Emma, and finally Neal too... is set in motion, and the final revelation being that Henry would one day be Rumplestiltskin's undoing. After which Rumple proclaims that he will kill this boy to save himself. Will Rumple really go so far as to kill his own grandson? Oh... And I also really love the brief scenes between Emma and Mary Margaret, then Mary Margaret with David too. Yes... What a complicated family tree they have! But really cool, nonetheless. What a Thanksgiving dinner they would have! I love David's crack about it being a good thing they don't celebrate Thanksgiving because of their very complicated family tree. :) And lastly... Hook is betrayed by Cora once again, after he deciphers the map that will lead to his dagger for them. Cora's a real witch who deserves to die. She makes me so mad. I really don't like her as this half of the season's major villainess, because she poisons Regina so much. But as a villainess herself alone, she's great! Foolishly, Regina is still caught up in her mother's web, which I also really don't like either. Don't get me wrong... Lana Parrilla's (Regina) acting is absolutely phenomenal, even now that she is reverting back into the Evil Queen. A character I absolutely love. And while I dislike Cora's character overall... Barbara Hershey plays Cora brilliantly too. I really enjoy these scenes between Hook, Regina, and Cora too. Of course, Hook isn't finished yet. And is he ever that much more angry and determined to get his revenge. Overall... This episode isn't quite one of my favorites from this season, but it is really, really good, and it certainly does have some great twists! I am so happy to have gotten another great reaction for Once Upon a Time from you. Thank you so much, Jay!! I can't wait for your reaction for the next episodes to come!! So, until next time, my dear friend... Sincerely, Heidi