THE INHABITANTS OF STORYBROOKE BRACE FOR THE END WHEN THE ANNIHILATION OF THE TOWN BECOMES IMMINENT, MR. GOLD MOURNS THE LOSS OF HIS SON, AND HOOK DISCOVERS A CONNECTION TO A YOUNG BAE IN NEVERLAND,
ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "ONCE UPON A TIME"
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" - The inhabitants of Storybrooke brace themselves for the end when Greg and Tamara detonate the trigger Regina had placed within the curse, with the annihilation of the town and its residents imminent; and Mr. Gold mourns the loss of his son, Bae/Neal. Meanwhile, back in Neverland of the past, Hook discovers his connection to a young Bae after he rescues him from the sea and soon realizes that the Lost Boys are in hot pursuit of the boy, on the Season Finale of "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, MAY 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Raphael Sbarge as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket, Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Beverley Elliott as Granny, David-Paul Grove as Doc, Gabe Khouth as Mr. Clark/Sneezy, Faustino Di Bauda as Sleepy, Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey, Michael Coleman as Happy, Mig Macario as Bashful, Dylan Schmid as young Baelfire, Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell, Christopher Gauthier as Smee, Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara, Parker Croft as Felix, Alex Barima as twin one and Jack Diblasio as twin two.
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Dean White.
Source: ABC
ON THE SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "ONCE UPON A TIME"
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" - The inhabitants of Storybrooke brace themselves for the end when Greg and Tamara detonate the trigger Regina had placed within the curse, with the annihilation of the town and its residents imminent; and Mr. Gold mourns the loss of his son, Bae/Neal. Meanwhile, back in Neverland of the past, Hook discovers his connection to a young Bae after he rescues him from the sea and soon realizes that the Lost Boys are in hot pursuit of the boy, on the Season Finale of "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, MAY 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Raphael Sbarge as Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket, Lee Arenberg as Leroy/Grumpy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Beverley Elliott as Granny, David-Paul Grove as Doc, Gabe Khouth as Mr. Clark/Sneezy, Faustino Di Bauda as Sleepy, Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey, Michael Coleman as Happy, Mig Macario as Bashful, Dylan Schmid as young Baelfire, Ethan Embry as Greg Mendell, Christopher Gauthier as Smee, Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara, Parker Croft as Felix, Alex Barima as twin one and Jack Diblasio as twin two.
"And Straight On 'Til Morning" was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz and directed by Dean White.
Source: ABC
Ooh, so Nealfire will find out what happened to his mom.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds awesome and I cannot wait for it!
Sounds interesting, but it really would have a lot more suspenseful if they hadn't introduced the finale plot (the trigger) in the episode before the finale. It just kind of smacks of lack of planning.
ReplyDeleteStill, I'll reserve judgement until I see the episode, ep 21 was pretty damn good. And I KNEW Neal wouldn't be dead!!
I wonder how exactly Gold will mourn Nealfire. By trying to kill Tamara, maybe? No complaints here, go for it, dearie.
ReplyDeleteAnd I need explanations on timeline. Time passes differently in Neverland and in the real world, that much is clear, but what about Neverland and FTL? Because at this point in time Hook obviously already met Milah, so she left Rumple and her son to be with him. But did Rumple already kill her? They will make it so, but I worry about consistency.
Not even a little surprising that Regina has a surefire way of winning when things don't go her way. Nothing says "I win" like killing everyone with the magical equivalent of a WMD.
ReplyDeleteI was just saying earlier that last week's episode should have been either 2.12 or 2.13, so that the knowledge of the trigger is in the back of people's minds and then BOOM.
ReplyDeleteHe had to have had killed her already. Since he went to Neverland afterwards.
ReplyDeleteHow did Regina place that in the curse if she actually had zero idea of what the curse actually DID or, you know, HOW TO MAKE IT WORK. She actually had the spell in her hands and STILL needed Rumplestiltskin to spell it out for her.
ReplyDeleteAdorable about Lana's stepson being one of the (presumed) Lost Boys though.
Hook went to Neverland specifically to avoid aging. And while he knew of it before, its quite clear this is happening AFTER Milah died.
ReplyDeleteTime is non-factor ONLY in Neverland.
Or he visited Neverland before, but I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteI'm very excited about the flashbacks.From various spoilers it seems that Hook is on friendly terms with Bae in Neverland.And while part of that may be to get Bae to reveal something about Rumple(maybe that's how he learned about the dagger),I do believe he cared for him.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that if Neal knew what happened to his mother it would have come up at some point.If that's the case,it's interesting that Hook never told him.
I'm really looking forward to this!
The timing (roughly) matches up. Bae was in London for, what? Six months, giving Rumple enough time to kill Milah and for Hook to go to Neverland.
ReplyDeleteMy question is precisely whether or not he had already been to Neverland. And if times passes just as quickly over there compared to both FTL and our world.
ReplyDeleteIt could influence the story: Rumple killed Milah after Bae left FTL. In 2x21, they say 6 months passed before Bae found Wendy. So... did Rumple find Hook straight after Bae went into the portal, tried to kill him, ended up killing Milah instead, blah blah? Did Hook immediately leave for Neverland? For how long had he been there mourning Milah?
I guess it interests me because as soon as Hook finds out who Bae is, he will have a decision to make: either care for the boy, because he is Milah's son, or hate him, because he is Rumple's. And I believe that depends on how long Hook's been in Neverland for.
Anyway, never mind me, I'm just obsessed with details and plot holes.
How do you know he was in Neverland before? Knowing of it isn't the same as having gone there
ReplyDeletePretty much all about this curse is a mystery to me. Someone still needs to answer how the hell Regina knew everyone's name in Storybrooke before actually ever talking to anyone.
ReplyDeleteAnd, more importantly, how CORA knew so much about the damn curse, including how to create a shield that would prevent part of FTL from being affected by it.
Right? It's what's plot necessary rather than what actually MAKES SENSE.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to assume re: Regina that the curse actually put the memories of everything appropriate in her head. Otherwise she would have been like "What the fuck are these clothes and this ekeltricity?" But Regina seems to have SO little knowledge of the curse at all so I'm curious about why she never mentioned this failsafe before.
Why not activate the failsafe, take Henry and leave with Cora and Hook? Why wasn't THAT the plan in The Miller's Daughter? That would have been a much better plot and a much better motivation for everyone beyond "Cora is totes gonna be worse than the regular insane violent murderers in town!"
True! And, about the trigger as a better motivation, it SO would have been... they could even throw Rumple into the mix, say he was the one who created the curse, so HE had the trigger all along, which is why they needed to go after him. Cora could have come up with the "and let's also steal his dagger and try to kill him cause what the hell" story all by herself, which would only make everything better and sadder.
ReplyDeleteRegina wouldn't know about part of the plan, so as soon as she found out Cora was planning on becoming the new Dark One, she'd be even more willing to give her mother a heart.
The Blue Fairy aka the most stupid and simultaneously creepiest character on this show. They should do something about her. They really should.
Exactly, it could be either. And he'd have to have had some other way of getting there before than the magic bean he used in "The Crocodile" (which is possible).
ReplyDeleteWell, the only thing we saw him spell out for her was the strictness of the "rip out the heart of the thing you love most" clause.
ReplyDeleteExcept for, you know, the literal spelling out of the curse for Regina.
ReplyDeleteAlso we still don't know how the mad hatter made it to Storybrooke when he was in Wonderland, presumably, and how he had his memory intact. Or how Charming survived when he died before going to Storybrooke. Or how Gold managed to leave Storybrooke and get Henry when, as far as we know, he didn't know who Henry was or that he himself was Rumple. Just all a coincidence I guess...
ReplyDeleteNo, we don't. Except Charming obviously WASN'T dead. And that is also a mystery about Henry. Especially since Regina reiterated in Lacey that she didn't get Henry, Gold did and said that he must have known.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Blue fairy is the flakiest character on the show. Also atm the show, for it's entirety has plotholes the size of which you can fly jetplanes through or you know...place new towns in. All of the above are good reasons why Regina could've done the failsafe thingy much sooner.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean? She knew what it did and even how to cast it, she just needed him to tell her why her first attempt failed. That's all we saw.
ReplyDeleteJefferson had his memory intact as part of his curse, because it was more painful in his case and would cause him to be seen as a madman, according to both himself and the writers. He was brought over because the curse affected multiple realms, much as it brought over Frankenstein and Regina was worried that it would bring over Cora even though she was in Wonderland unless Cora was killed. It's also unclear where Smee was when it hit. But the exact mechanics of that haven't been explained, if it would be universal or just people in other realms who were connected to Regina and/or the Enchanted Forest.
ReplyDeleteThat Rumple spelled out the curse in that he wrote it. He wrote the words. He had been working on it for hundreds of years and intended for Regina to cast the curse from before she was born. It's more likely that based on what we've seen of her magical ability and that she consistently needs to go to him to help her, it sounds fishy that she suddenly knew the curse well enough to put in a failsafe when she didn't even know it well enough to know how it worked or how to make it work.
ReplyDeleteGiven that all the punishments we've seen were very personal to how that person "wronged" Regina and Rumple had to ask for conditions when she enacted it, Regina had to have designed a great deal of the curse herself.
ReplyDeleteHe says that he is "Captain Hook", which means that Milah is dead and Rumple cut off his hand so he is in Neverland to not grow old.
ReplyDeleteI think Rumple/Gold knew that Henry was Emma's "the savior's" son, but he did not know that he was Bae's son.
ReplyDeleteI hope Gold goes balistic on Tamara and Greg, I hate them
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. I thought you were saying there was a scene where he had had to explain everything about the curse to Regina, which there wasn't. Well, I think she read it well enough to do all that when she had it in hand. She did know the ingredients she needed, including the heart of the thing she loved most, which she thought was her steed, as well as hair from various villains and so on, she only needed Rumple to tell her how literal that was.
ReplyDeleteThat would have been a good idea.
ReplyDeleteNah, according to the writers he didn't remember until he heard Emma's name in the Pilot. That's why he was worried about losing his memories if he crossed the town line, and didn't remember anything when Regina confronted him in "Welcome to Storybrooke". He really did have a cursed self. Whereas Regina didn't and said in "Manhattan" that she wouldn't lose her memories if she crossed over. So to all appearance it was fate that Henry came to Storybrooke, just like it was fate that Emma and Baelfire met in the first place.
ReplyDeletePlus, Bae said to Wendy that magic killed his mother
ReplyDeleteThe "Peter Pan is evil" thing totally worked, pretty fond of that plot
ReplyDeleteAren't Aurora and Mulan missing from this press release ?
ReplyDeleteHe also had the hook as his arm and he lost his arm when he lost Milah, so Milah is already dead right now. We don't know how much time Bae spent at Wendy's, it could've been over a year since he left FTL by that time.
ReplyDeletePlanning ahead isn't this shows strong suit.
ReplyDeleteYou're putting more thought into this than the creators of the show are. ;)
ReplyDeleteBecause, you know, plot! And it makes no sense, I agree.
ReplyDeleteYep, which is both frustrating and sad...
ReplyDeleteMy interpretation is that the Curse adjusted automatically to her inner desires, and brought all the people (and creatures) she wanted to take with her to Storybrooke, in such versions of themselves that she wanted them to be.
ReplyDeleteAs for Charming, I like to believe that Regina's explanation about saving him in "The Stranger" wasn't entirely made up. :D I think she wanted him to stay alive, even though she obviously didn't want him to interact with Mary Margaret.
In the popular version of the fairytale, the Queen was jealous of Snow White because she feared Snow was more beautiful. In Once there are a few subtle hints that Regina might actually have a soft spot for Charming, so maybe that translates into a different kind of jealousy. ;)
After all, she could have killed him and forever taken away Snow's chance of reuniting with him. Instead, she took him to Storybrooke. While the Curse was in place, she could have made Graham kill him or told Whale to stop his life support. And yet she didn't.
On top of it all, she let him keep his own name in his cursed identity - but why? Maybe David sounds a little too much like Daniel, maybe the brave son of a shepherd reminds her in a way of her own stable boy? Whatever the reason, amongst all the conflicting feelings she must have for him, there's a hint of attraction and affection. :)
That's the interpretation I favour (in other words, don't blow holes in my ship). :P
Sure, she read it well enough. But he also taught her everything she knows, since it was his intention for her to cast the curse since before she was even born.
ReplyDeleteNo, I think the same. It's all just far too weighted towards Rumplestiltskin to be controlled entirely by Regina. And I'm pretty sure the 'conditions' Rumple had to 'ask' for were just so he could control Regina without having to resort to magic, if he wouldn't have it.
ReplyDeleteJust based on how she's relatively surprised by things in the curse but how things were instinctive otherwise.
It also would have been a lot more interesting in terms of a Cora/Storybrooke battle if she wanted the failsafe to take her, Regina and Henry back to FTL and kill everyone.
ReplyDeleteShe should have designed it way better then. Jefferson's was a way better curse than Mary Margaret's sweet ass life.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying it was entirely controlled by Regina, of course Rumple had constructed the Curse in a way that would suit him, hiding "Easter eggs" within it that would ensure the achievement of his own endgame.
ReplyDeleteMy point is that Storybrooke and all its inhabitants were modelled after Regina's secret desires. The end result was not what she wanted, because ultimately the Curse to End All Curses cannot possibly bring anyone true happiness, that would be too much of a paradox.
Just take Regina's reactions - at first, she was pleased that Snow White was too afraid to fight back, too insecure and even apologized for running into her. But the problem was that it was all in the extreme, too "perfect" to be real.
In David's case, his cursed identity was also supposed to be the kind of man that Regina wanted him to be - but distorted to the extreme. So, she wanted him to be sympathetic, but the Curse made him into a person so compassionate that he didn't want to hurt anyone.
And I find it fascinating that Regina wanted David to be compassionate (maybe because in FTL he'd never tried to understand her side of the story, and was always aggressive towards her).
Yes, that did come in a bit late in the season. I mean, technically Greg/Owen and Tamara were both introduced before Cora bit it, but not with enough hints to their larger significance.
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