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Once Upon A Time Season 1 Episode 2 The Thing You Love Most

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Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

The Thing You Love Most- Thank you so much for continuing watching Once Upon a Time for us, Jay!! And thank you for another fantastic reaction to this show I love!! I love this episode so much!!! Regina as the Evil Queen is absolutely a phenomenal villainess!! And Rumplestiltskin... Also quite incredible as well! :) First, in answer to your main questions coming away from this episode... The actor who plays Sheriff Graham, is indeed Jamie Dornan who plays in the Fifty Shades of Grey movies. And his eyes are intense, but maybe not for the reason you may think. Yes... Emma's red leather jacket is a significant piece of clothing, but it means something about her character. But this revelation won't come until much later on in this show. Granny is actually Red Riding Hood's Grandmother from their fairytale. And within their fairytale, she is known to have been swallowed by the wolf, who at one point pretends to be Red's grandmother so that he could eat Red too. "Grandmother... What big teeth you have." Kristin Bauer Van Straten is the actress who plays Maleficent, and it's amazing that you actually felt like she should play a vampire in some show or movie. You happen to be very right, because she actually plays a vampire in the HBO TV series... True Blood. A show that I only really watched the first season of and gave up on because I lost all interest in it and its characters. But yes... She happened to play a vampire like you believed about her. And then... The revelation that the old man you said looks like a character from The Haunted Mansion is Regina's father, isn't actually revealed until Regina calls him Daddy, just before she tragically kills him. We only get the sense that she deeply cared about this man who was doing his best to care for her and love her. I hope these answers help. :) Now... I really love both the past storyline with the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest, as well as with Regina in Storybrooke too. My favorite scenes being between the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin in his prison when she asks about the curse, and it's revealed that she must crush the heart of the thing she loves most... and between Regina and Mr. Gold in the very ending by Regina's apple tree. The actors who play them (Lana Parrilla and Robert Carlyle), play off of one another very well. They're both brilliant and their characters are so powerful and scary. I think that Robert Carlyle who plays Rumplestiltskin and Mr. Gold, is very good at being crazy and he's a phenomenal character throughout this show. As for how Gold may appear to be awake, or possibly remember his true self, if he even does... Regina's face of shock in the very ending shows us that she has begun to suspect that he must be awake, and it's clear she never intended for him to be. However, him possibly being aware of the truth, is fantastic! It helps to build up the mysteriousness around him. We don't actually know if he is indeed awake or not. :) I also really love the friction and battle of wits between Regina and Emma too. They also play off of one another very well. I think it is hilarious that Emma cuts one of the branches from her apple tree, because Emma senses that the Mayor's threat towards her in the beginning when she comes to give Emma a basket of apples. And yes... What Emma does here is a felony against the law and because they live in the real world, the laws are the same. And yet the laws of the real world here in Storybrooke don't necessarily work in the same way as they do in the real world. Storybrooke is a world filled with fairytale characters, brought over from the Enchanted Forest. And while no one remembers who they really are... Regina does. And so, she doesn't necessarily abide by the laws like she would be held to outside of their town. And she's the Mayor, so she can enforce them however she wishes to. And I really love this! It's very interesting, because Storybrooke isn't a part of the real world outside of this town. Even though Storybrooke and the real world is connected. Next... I really love the scene between the Evil Queen and her father just before she kills him by ripping out his heart with her bare hands. It's so dark and yet so sad too, because her father was a good man trying so hard to help his daughter whom he truly did love very much, as any true father would love his child. And you really see the pain Regina's eyes that killing her father causes her. Regina is evil and is willing to go so far that she was able to kill her own father, which makes her a terrifying enemy. I also really love that we find out the Henry is named after her father, as Rumple points out in the very end. It's sweet, but also twisted since Regina has killed her father. But her naming Henry after her father shows us that she really does love Henry in spite of how cruel she can be, even to him. Next... I really enjoy this show's portrayal of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty too. She is really dark and smartly written, and I love that her castle is in the Forbidden Fortress. As for her look... Maleficent is rarely seen with her hair let out at all in any story of Sleeping Beauty, because she usually wears the black cowl with horns which covers up her hair. The only time outside of Once Upon a Time in which we see her hair is in the movie Maleficent with Angelina Jolie, when she wears her hair down. So, I really love Maleficent's look and the design of her fortress where she lives in the Forbidden Forest. In regards to Archie snitching on Emma to Regina... Archie most certainly makes a mistake by doing so, but Regina has threatened and bullied him into doing so. And you can see that he regrets having hurt both Emma and Henry when we see him in the ending in the scene between them. Archie is a good man too, like Sheriff Graham. We can only imagine how far Regina has gone to keep everyone living in this fairytale town trapped under her heels and to keep them miserable. So, yeah... I don't blame Archie for his actions. Maybe to a small extent, but not really. Oh... Pongo from 101 Dalmatians is the dalmatian we see being walked by Archie/Jiminy Cricket in Storybrooke. Archie is Pongo's owner. Just in case you missed this from these first two episodes. In this show, you will see pretty much every fairytale character from all fairytales from the Disney movies, the Brothers Grimm fairytales, Hans Christian Anderson fairytales, fables, nursery rhymes, and even tall tales that you could possibly think of. All brought together in this same world. This show is so creative and beautiful, and all of the characters are brilliantly casted and amazing! I absolutely love Once Upon a Time so much!! :) And lastly... I absolutely love the moments between Emma and Mary Margaret throughout this episode. I love how Mary Margaret helps Emma by bailing her out of jail, tells Emma that she feels like she knows Emma and that she trusts her, and encourages her to stay in town to take care of Henry. There are some really beautiful moments between mother and daughter throughout this episode, even though they're both unaware of their true relationship with one another. Emma is shocked upon Mary Margaret telling her that Henry believes her to be Snow White, which sparks a sudden realization that she could be looking back at her mother after all these years of being all alone. However, Emma of course quickly shakes off this sudden feeling of recognition, as she refuses to believe anything in regards to Henry's belief in the curse and everyone truly being fairytale characters being real. But I really love this sudden recognition from Emma, nonetheless. Thank you so much again, Jay! I'm really happy to see that you have loved this episode so much too! It's fantastic to see Regina's story and to see just how far she's willing to go in order to get her revenge on Snow White, as well as to rid Storybrooke of Emma, whom she now recognizes to be a very real threat to her and her efforts to keep her curse alive. And the ending scene between Gold and Regina always gets everyone so intrigued to watch more Once Upon a Time. It's absolutely brilliant! :) I can't wait for your reaction for the next episode!!! Snow Falls is one of my favorite episodes from this season, so I'm so excited! Until then, my dear friend... Sincerely, Heidi