The villanesses lived up to their names tonight. The next half of the season looks promising. Also, tonight Belle became a little bit stronger after being a weak character. Rumple had lied to her for way too long.
So happy to see Elsa and Anna gone, but I will miss Elizabeth Mitchell who is a welcome addition to any show. I'm pretty excited about the villainesses coming in, they seemed to be having fun. I just hope they get something more original to do than place yet another curse on Storybrook. Sad to see Regina and Robin depart. Hopefully Regina won't retread to her Evil Witch persona. So is the author seriously going to be Mickey Mouse?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
If Disney still had the rights to 'Narnia' they also could have used Jadis the White Witch. That also would have made a lot more sense. However, an appearance from her will probably never happen because the rights to use those books belong to the C.S. Lewis Estate and they are apparently picky on who can use them. They also just had a sorceress with ice/snow powers.
Cruella seems like a tough character to shoehorn into the world, though the actress looks like fun, so I'll go along for the ride.
Actually, in a recent EW interview, they addressed (not convincingly, I might add) how they were going to tie-in Cruella:
Let’s talk about Cruella de Vil. Can you say what world she comes from? KITSIS: We’re kind of taking some liberty there. We’re going to realize that our Cruella may have originated from the Enchanted Forest, and we may find out she has some magic of her own. She’s part villain, part Zelda Fitzgerald. There’s something glamorous and jazz age, but something very deadly about her as well. HOROWITZ: She’s a fun character for us. We hopefully found a way to spin it and make her different and part of the Once universe while also having plenty of nods of the iconography of Cruella that everybody loves.
It sounds the sort of thing you're either going to have to accept the implausibility of, or you're really not going to like the second half of the season.
Loved how the creative team converted her from cartoon to real-life. She's Disney and this is basically a Disney show, so it's not all that far-fetched, is it?
I love Elizabeth Mitchell, but was annoyed by her on this show. She "wanted a family to love her?" That was the plot of the whole first half of the season? The she vanished in a ball of light? Didn't love it. (And I'm not prudish about boobs. I just didn't want to see hers, and don't really want to see any on *this* show.)
"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland
Her power was in her boobs. Don't hate. I have wanted to part of Elizabeth Mitchell's family and supply her with as much love as she needed since Gia and then ER.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
I completly forgot Frankenstein was a thing! The thing about this show is for me it jumped the shark ever since the pilot. I just don't think it's ever been a good show or understood/cared about its rules all that much. So the way I see it is whether it's gonna be fun or not. Elsa and Anna were no fun for me, neither was Peter Pan (though the dark twist was very clever). Cora was fun, Zelena was fun; Cruella sounds fun and the actress looks like she's game, so I'm looking forward to it. The series plays fast and loose with its mythology all the time. And Elizabeth Mitchell is one of my favorites. I can't express how obnoxious I find the comments criticizing her outfit, as Julia Roberts famously professed once: "they're called boobs, Ed."
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
@Carlos, I highly doubt that, so far they're using characters from Disney's own animated films and didn't we have a different Rapunzel and Witch in this already?
^^ I'm so excited!!!!!! I loved him on the show so much
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
They did have Rapunzel in the batch of episodes featuring Zelena. I don't think there was a Witch, the twist was that Rapunzel was the Witch since her own fear manifested itself as a physical presence. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in INTO THE WOODS character if the movie is a hit and if they get renewed.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"