Once Upon A Time S01E06 - The Shepherd FULL REACTION
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Did you know that they tried to make you wonder if the fairy tales were real in season 1 or if it was all in henrys head. It was kinda smart.
Franklin
2020-12-18 00:24:06 +0000 UTCThere are a lot of odd behind the scenes factoids that explain how the show works in terms of the cast. Goodwin and Dallas really do have great chemistry... witness them getting married. Also, in a blink or you will miss it Dallas has a bit speaking role in Zootopia where Ginnifer voices one of the main characters. Also Regina continues to demonstrated a love of Henry, which carries over into the real world where the actor who plays Henry has said that he considers Lana Parrilla to be a member of his family because she's so nice out of character.
Patrick Sullivan
2019-10-24 22:47:32 +0000 UTCThank you so much for another fantastic reaction for Once Upon a Time!!! I really enjoyed your reaction, and I really love this episode a lot too. So many twists and they're brilliant!! First... here is a little information on Charming's name in case you were a bit confused by what to call him. Charming's mother never actually spoke her son's name at all throughout the episode. She actually only ever calls him "my darling boy", or something to that effect. Nor does King George or Rumplestiltskin. The only time a name for him is spoken... it's actually when King George calls his own son, the Prince who died, James. James is the name of the other twin who is killed, but when Charming agrees to King George's and Rumple's agreement to pretend to be his brother, Charming takes on the role of Prince James, pretending to be his brother in a ruse to con King Midas for his gold for the sake of George's kingdom. Charming doesn't wish to be a part of it, but then George darkly threatens to kill Charming's mother and to destroy their farm if he refused. So he becomes Prince James, as he's pretending to be when he first meets Snow and therefore introduces himself to her as James. Charming's true actual name, which will be somewhat cleared up in a very strange, yet entertaining kind of way in future episodes, is not actually revealed yet. I just won't say which episodes to avoid spoilers. So for now... you can either call him simply David or Charming. Now... I absolutely love the scenes between Charming and Rumplestiltskin, who is always brilliant, and the scenes between Charming and King George, who I love to hate. We have this episode's biggest twist when Prince James is killed, and we learn that he had a twin brother no one knew about except for Rumple himself, and of course the twins' parents. Not even Charming knew he had a brother, since they were babies when Rumple made the deal with his parents to save them and their farm. I love each of these reactions... between Rumple and King George, as well as Rumple and Charming before he becomes Prince James. Robert Carlyle is always brilliant in his acting of Rumplestiltskin, as well as Mr. Gold, both characters who have their hands in pretty much everything that goes on in our characters' lives. Both in the Enchanted Forest and in Storybrooke too. He's very clever and conniving, and like I stated before... he has a reason for doing everything he does. Then, Rumple and King George convinces Charming to take on this ruse for King Midas so that George's kingdom will be replenished and so that Midas will give King George all the gold he desires. And yet Charming isn't meant to kill the dragon himself, only to pretend to have done so while George's men go into the cave to do so for him, seeing as he's nothing more than a shepherd. Little does anyone realize how skilled Charming is upon being a shepherd, as he charges in to try to protect the men's lives, then soon slays the dragon himself despite what everyone believed him to be capable of. I love how brave he is. I also really love this battle between Charming and the dragon. :) I feel that my favorite scenes throughout this episode are definitely those between Charming and his mother. Such a tender and heartbreaking moment as they say goodbye to one another, as Charming is forced to agree to George's demands in order to protect his mother. She's so sweet and loving, and I love that she gives her son her ring and states that it will lead him to his true love, which it does as we see in the end when it shows Snow waiting in the tree as the royal carriage with Charming and Abigail drive past, leading into the beginning of Snow White's and Prince Charming's love story shown in Snow Falls. Beautiful. I also love the beginning scene with him and his mother when she's trying to set him up with another woman, then his mother gets upset with herself for trying to set her son up in a marriage she knows he would never be happy in. These scenes show how much she truly loves her son, and how close she and Charming are with one another. As far as why Charming states they can't be together... it is most likely out of fear that should he be guarded at all times upon taking on the role of the Prince and now being engaged to Midas' daughter, that George would have his mother killed and their farm destroyed, just as George threatened to do should Charming refuse to play the role of his son. Next... I enjoy this show's take on King Midas, as well as seeing that Kathryn, whose true name is Abigail in the Enchanted Forest and is Midas' daughter, is sweet and kind, while Abigail is quite the opposite. And yet, there's more to her than meets the eye. And in his own fairytale, King Midas is known as the man with the golden touch. A man cursed to turn everything his hand touches into gold. It sounds great at first, but the price of this magic is steep. As for the present day storylines... First, with David and the windmill when he sees it in Gold's shop... Because Charming was unconscious upon being severely wounded when the curse fell over them, in Storybrooke he's found in a coma and once he awakens, the curse hasn't affected him fully yet because of his unconscious state as the curse reformed everyone else's memories. That's what the curse has done for everyone from the Enchanted Forest brought over into Storybrooke within the curse, except for Regina because she's the one who cast it and created a way to keep her own memories intact. The curse alters everyone's memories... taking pieces from everyone's true lives and manipulating them in such a way so that everyone is truly miserable, and everyone's happy endings are simply gone. For David... because he was briefly engaged to Princess Abigail in the Enchanted Forest, the curse made both him and Kathryn believe that they're married in their cursed lives here in Storybrooke. However, that they are also in a rocky marriage. But because David was unconscious when the curse hit him, his false memories didn't work on him like they instantaneously did for everyone else. He simply has no memories of anyone or anything whatsoever. Which is why he is confused by his true love for Mary Margaret, who he is really married to like we saw from their wedding shown in the Pilot episode, and his false love for Kathryn he can't remember. Until of course Regina leads David to Gold, knowing that the windmill from the yard of David's and Kathryn's home would implant the false memories permanently within David's mind, so that he will remember feelings for Kathryn he never actually had. The windmill was used not to so much help trigger the memories, but to hypnotize David in a sense until the false memories flooded through his mind. I know this isn't really explained in the show very well, so I thought I would try to explain what I feel it might have done to David. As for the end scene between David and Mary Margaret once he remembers his false memories and then comes to find her down by the troll bridge... This scene was beautifully acted by both Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas, and you can feel Mary Margaret's heart shatter upon being crushed when David tells her he wants to do right by Kathryn. And to be honest... I'm not so sure which is worse... for him to break Mary Margaret's heart, or Kathryn's heart. Of course we want David and Mary Margaret to be together, given that they are True Love's. However, it's crushing either way. But oh... I just felt so bad for Mary Margaret. As for the scene between Emma and Sheriff Graham... it's brief and just okay. I didn't really take much away from it, although that it's meant to help make you feel there's something more between Emma and Graham, which explains why she's more jealous of his twisted relationship with Regina, than angry over his deception and him having sex with Regina while Henry's asleep in the house. And lastly... we have the end scene between Mary Margaret and Dr. Whale. I do not like them together. And I got so frustrated when he asked if he could buy her a drink, and she said that he could buy her two. Clearly, this leads us to believe something more might happen between them and yikes... they are not good together whatsoever. Overall... I love this episode and I loved getting more of a brilliant backstory with Charming and his twin brother, Prince James. I also love David's constant pursuit of Mary Margaret, as he struggles to convince her that he wants to be with her, not Kathryn. I love how he states that he never chose Kathryn, only the man he couldn't remember had because he never was him. He was only ever a man who loves Mary Margaret and is drawn to her because they are one another's true loves. The twists are great and the acting is top notch. Thank you so much!!! I can't wait for more, so until next time...
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2019-10-24 03:03:16 +0000 UTC
