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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Another Door Opens (Once Upon A Time 2x01 Broken Episode Review)

After a long wait, Once Upon A Time is finally back!

The opener episode of the second season of the said show opened more doors of storylines that we could never have imagined. Instead of having answers from what happened in last season's finale, we were overwhelmed with more questions that had arisen.

As the purple smoke dispersed  everybody in Storybrooke finally remembered their "past life". But as we thought that magic is finally here, we are wrong because it isn't. Regina is still powerless and the blue fairy is not flying. Anyway, the citizens were raving about the evil queen for what she did, and when they found out that her evil powers are not back, they imprisoned her. Mr. Gold, on the other hand, made a promise to Belle that he won't avenge her to Regina for putting her in an asylum for 28 years. So, he just summoned a dementor to take Regina's soul. Since Emma and pals think and believe that killing her is not justifiable, they decided to save the evil queen who wanted them to be dead all this time. Sigh. They were able to save her from this monster by using Mad Hatter's hat as a doorway into the other world. BUT, the monster grabbed Emma by the foot and took her down with it. Snow also jumped into the transport thingy to save Emma. When it's Charming's time, the hole shut down already. Furthermore, Regina was able to get her powers back when she and Emma helped each other in opening the transport thingy.


Throughout the episode, during the scenes in the fairy tale world, we thought that Mulan, Aurora and Philip were just having their flashbacks. But it was revealed that their side of the world were not put included in the curse of Regina before. When magic returned to Storybrooke, their lives in he fairy tale land resumed again. In he end of the episode, Snow and Emma were transported into their world!

Wow, that episode was surely somethin'. It was not as thrilling as I expected i to be but I was not expecting the major twists they introduced halfway! However, as I mentioned above, the episode raised more questions for this season of Once Upon A Time.  "Broken" also sprinkled some unprecedented humor in some scenes which was... weird. But nah, it worked anyway.

I am very excited for the next episodes to come!



3 comments:

  1. Actually, flashforwards seemed to me quite self-evident from the beginning. Indeed, when Aurora awakens, Philip states "You don't need to worry about Maleficent anymore". However, he couldn't have killed her in the past, since we learned from 1x22 that when the curse occurred Maleficent had reached Storybrooke alive and in dragon shape. Thus, those scenes must happen after the curse...

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  2. You're probably right. But Mulan told Aurora that when they were cursed by Regina, everything stopped. And they just resumed looking for her when all of a sudden, everything became normal - that's when Rumple brought the purple smoke to Storybrooke.

    Timelines are really confusing LOL

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  3. Yes, REALLY confusing! But after LOST we have been getting kind of used to, haven't we? LOL

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