Once upon a time series 3 - sort of

I haven't watched all of it, because I became tired of how they changed the series and based everything on few characters, and stopped watching it. I followed a bit of what happened next on the internet, but nothing made me want to watch it again. There are some nice Snowing scenes, yes, and also some Emma-Regina scenes that are good, but there's too much Hook. I understand Colin's fans because I like him too, a lot, it's the character I don't like. Maybe it's because of how he was introducing: not just because he went away with Rumple's wife, no, it's because when he first met the Dark One he humiliated him and kicked him down because he thought him to be a harmless old man.
No dark magic involved to make him act like he did. Anyway, this series is now moving on like that:
forgetting the evil done by those they want to make heroes, just like that.

I will put here all the things that I wrote about series 3 back then:

14 April 2014
OUAT 3x17 - no Rumple..
I knew this episode was Hook-centric, it was obvious by the title 'the Jolly Roger', still there was not even a little shot of Rumple. Nothing. I mean, Robert Carlyle was the main reason I liked this show, and now we never see him... I did like the rest as well, but just Hook is not enough, it's boring. I have nothing against the actor, mind you, I like Colin, it's Hook I'm not very fond of. I admit he's trying to redeem himself, but the fact is that when he was first introduced I disliked him so much that now it's hard to like him. I disliked him because he called himself a man of honor and yet he challenged at a duel a man who couldn't even stand on his own feet (human Rumple, remember?) and later on he kicked on the floor what he thought was just a poor old beggar. Okay, it turned out it wasn't, it turned out it was The Dark One ready to go all dark on him, but still, he didn't know, he really thought it was just a poor old beggar. And he mocked him and kicked him to the floor. Anyway.
I want Mr Gold back. I loved Mr Gold. Now the choice is between not seeing even a single shot of him, or seeing just a scene in which he goes all bad because forced by the wicked witch. I'm tired of this. I don't think I'll be buying the DVDs when they'll be out. I bought season 1 and season 2, but I'll probably stop there. I'm not liking this season.
Of course there's always the chance they'll make it right at the end. There should be 22 episodes, so there still is time, and there was talk about a wedding at the end of the season, so there still is a chance that things may turn right again and it could be Mr Gold marrying his Belle, but I've stopped being so optimistic.
I was optimistic when they said 'in the second half of the season Belle and Rumple will be in the same world, in whatever state their relationship is'. I thought, it's not necessarily a bad thing, it might mean it'll be in a good state, you never know... now I know, it didn't mean that.
Now it's all boring. Up to now, the only good scenes (other then a very few nice moments with Rumple-so few you can count them on the fingers of one hand)  were the ones with Regina, because Regina is always great. In this episode I was glad to see Ariel back, that was nice, but then the same old trick of the evil one, disguising herself as Ariel to get at Hook. Cora did that already. Same old trick.
I'm bored.

21 April 2014
OUAT 3X18 - Rumple still not free!! but liked Regina & OutlawQueen & SnowQueen moments
I saw it. It was a good episode all in all, but it kills me that Rumple is still prisoner, that he doesn't have free-will. That he's forced to do things against his will. I can't wait for him to be free to do what he wants !!! Still Robert Carlyle is magic, his face when he didn't want to hurt Roland, the emotions on his face... love him!!! He can wear so well his emotions on his face! I mean, he's an actor and this should be obvious, but seeing all the so-called actors out there I know it's not. (not talking about ouat actors). And he planted Ronald like he did Belle, it's like 'I want you to stay still but don't want to hurt you' I found this sweet, he was so sorry to threaten that little child. Him, who did everything for his son..

The Rumple-Zelena thing was so short... :p I mean, I know Gold is Belle's, and Rumbelle power, and all that, it's not like I wanted this, personally I wanted this with Gold&Belle, but still, it's Robert Carlyle we're talking about, so... it was so short... but moving on... Regina was really at the heart of the episode. It's all going round Regina now. I'm not complaining, at least Regina is always good and interesting. She saved Snow, and the look on Snow's face was priceless = Regina: if you want to kill her you'll have to go through me; Snow thinking: wow that's a nice change...

Regina and Belle give us the only Rumbelle moment in a way. She's the only one saying to Belle "your Rumple" and "your boyfriend" and I'm like "yes yes everyone don't forget that!!!". Also Belle truly keeps the story together not forgetting the past. Now that both Hook and Regina apologized to her she can be one of the group and actually do stuff to get her boyfriend back! Finally! She was left alone, no wonder she knows so well the shop to know where everything is, she was practically alone with nothing to do, not a soul caring how she feels, or including her in the fight. Like she's not even involved in what's happening. She's more involved in this than most of the others, it's her boyfriend Zelena is using as a doll !!! Good things lately they remembered it. They would be clueless without her. Well, almost clueless, still she helped a lot, good to see that a bookworm can solve the riddle when all the powerful ones couldn't ! Like my Doctor said, when you're in a library you have all the weapon you need !
 Hopefully they can stop the curse this time, last time they didn't. I wonder, if Zelena succeeds in casting her curse, Rumple will be without brain? Because it would change the future of all the others, but when Zelena was a baby Rumple was already this age but without his wit he wouldn't be able to do anything... Oh well, I just hope she doesn't succeed, otherwise no happy ending in this series, just more waiting... but how does the good witch Glinda fit? Are they going to Oz? How? I know that at the start there was no magic on Earth and that's why Rumple needed the dark curse to get here, now there is magic so it's easier, but what now, they keep going back and forth like it's the easiest thing? Or it'll just be another curse? And what about this curse, that took away all their memories, will this curse get broken before the end? Okay, wait and see, I know...

Then there's Regina and Robin. She's so controlled now, so much a mother, so much thinking with her heart (even if she doesn't have it) instead of letting anger have the best of her. I liked Snow's words about her feeling things with all her soul, I mean she doesn't have her heart, but she's acting exactly as if she had it, she still feels and cares for Henry, for Snow's baby, for Robin and for Roland. When Cora had no heart, she only followed her ambitions, she didn't really love, and Graham without his heart couldn't feel anything, not really as much as he tried, but Regina can, and Robin is certainly helping her now in this.. 

I so wish Rumple will tell her something nice, like how he would have always chosen her. He said it to Zelena, but Regina doesn't know that. I wish he'd tell her. I always loved any Gold-Regina moment, and Rumple has always been important to her, he's her mentor, I wish for more nice scenes between them.

It's really hard to wait for the other episodes. I want Rumple free. I want Regina with her heart. I want Rumple and Belle together. Now.
I'm not even going into the whole Cora-Eva stuff, I don't like it much, these flashbacks don't interest me that much you know, I'm just glad they cleared for everyone that Rumple is not her father. Cora's story is twisted enough, almost wicked I'd say.
Up to now they always ended with a cliffhanger. Season 1 ended with magic retorning to Storybrooke and still some business unfinished, because Gold still had to find his son. Season 2 finished with Henry kidnapped, and them sailing to Neverland. I wonder what will be this time. Rumple's ordeal must be sorted, they can't let us with him still treated as a doll !!! We couldn't stand that. I couldn't stand that. It would be the time Rumbelle fans would really reunite and go find them !!

I hope it won't be about Snow's baby being kidnapped or in danger, because we've already been there, already know the drill. 

No need to say that this time I hope Gold will be okay in every way, meaning free and with Belle and without people hating him, because everyone surely understands he didn't want to do what he's doing . He's been suffering enough. I spent first half of this series saying "stop crying" , I think it's time to have our Mr.Gold back.

22 April 2014

ouat 3x19 press release

So they went to Oz in  the flashback, from FairyTale Land, not from here.. okay that's much better. I see there'll be focus on Hook and the fact that he must take away Emma's powers to save Henry.. well they can't let Henry die, can they? So they'll think of something. I wonder, Zelena cursed his lips, but if Emma actually loves him, if she feels true-love for him, and kisses him, will the curse work (stealing her powers) or will it be broken because of true-love-kiss?
Reading on, 'things will heat up between Regina and Robin' which is ok, I like Robin Hood and we know he's her true love, so maybe they're planning a future for them. At least I think so, I hope they won't do anything bad to either of them, because Regina is too important to get rid of her, and Robin... they can't kill her love again !
An unlikely source, so it wasn't Zelena that did cast the curse bringing them all to StoryBrooke? And yet, Zelena is the only one that remembers what's happened in the past year. Rumple was trapped in Neal's body, so who did it? And why Zelena is the only one with her memories intact if she didn't cast the curse??
No mention of Rumple, there is nothing more on the press release... I'll just have to wait another week... I hate the waiting...

28 April 2014
OUAT 3x19 - no Rumbelle reunion but a good episode
Well, there was a Rumbelle scene, but it was in FTL therefore in the past, so of course it wasn't a happy occasion. It was a good scene, though, because it showed how Belle can always reach to Rumple, and he was able to help her even if his mind was all messed up, what with having Neal inside him, and therefore two brains as he said.
Finally this week I liked Snow as I did in the earlier episodes. I liked how she smiled when she saw the door, and remembering Rumple's words she just walked in, not doubting him because he sounded mad, but believing, like she always used to. And the curse, oh Snow begging Regina to take her heart and break it into two, it was so great and emotional. Remembering their past, how all Regina wanted was to see her suffering, how she wanted to separate them, and now she looked so sad watching Snow crying over David's dead body!!! Regina was even so concerned about the fact that Snow might die, if the heart-split-in-two plan had not worked... but again the real Snow was back, the one I liked, full of faith and trust, begging Regina to take her heart, not doubting for a second that Regina will really help them. No more "how can we trust you?" stuff. Now Regina is one of them, and Snow proved how much she trusted her. On another situation I might have thought, maybe she's not sure but she doesn't care because she'd rather die than live without David, but this was so not the case. She was pregnant and she needed to get back to Emma, so it was just trust and faith!
I also loved Robin Hood and Regina.. when she entered the room after leaving him, it was funny that they all seemed as shocked as I was to see Regina's adorable happy smile. To be honest I don't remember ever seeing her happy before; satisfied yes, if one of her plans was going the right was, but happy? No, and in this episode we saw that not once but twice, the second time being when Henry remembers her, of course, and they talk and then Robin comes and the three of them go out together like a family... can't wait to see that scene with the addition of little Roland, in a way Henry will have a little brother!! Cute.
Emma saving Henry from Zelena using her magic without anyone's help! I loved it, and most of all I loved that it was Regina breaking the curse, because she finally FINALLY kissed Henry. I don't remember her ever kissing him, do you? If you do, please tell me when it was, because I only remember her holding him by the shoulders, maybe hugging him for a second after every time he got her worried, but no kisses. A mother should kiss her child. And she finally did, and it was true love, so Henry will never again doubt that!
Fortunately this time the episode wasn't all about Zelena, I was so tired of them being like 60% Zelena 30% Hook and 10% to share among all the others... I like Zelena, but there should be equal doses of everyone, that's what I think! This time we do, and that's another reason why I liked this episode, while so many before were so boring to me. Seriously, this season has been a bit boring for me, with just a few good moments here and there, no real excitement, so I'm really really hoping that the next three episodes will bring something so magnificent to make up for all the other episodes.
I'm sort of worried it might be just Abigail's wedding, what else would should she come back for? She's not part of the Zelena story, and yet they said she's coming back.
Like many others I had hoped for a Rumbelle wedding, but I know it's not going to happen this season, and in a way it would be a bit rushed, wouldn't it? Maybe they'll do it next season, with all the proper time dedicated to them. *dreaming*

3 May 2014

OUAT 3x20 sneak peek spoilers!!! yeah!!!

The witch is defeated at last!! Finally, I say. Not by Emma, but by Regina, with white magic! So she was not condemed to black magic, it all depends what you want to achieve with it, and how you use it, then. I wonder if one day Rumple's magic can become white too. I know people might object to the fact that Regina stopped Rumple from killing Zelena, but that's the right thing to do, she's right, the two of them have killed too in the past, and even more people than Zelena has, in fact.

And to be considered changed, to aspire to their happy ending, they must stop doing it. You can't give in to revenge and also pretend your happy ending. She's about to have hers, and I want Rumple to have it too, so he must stop too. I hope he'll understand that, because this time he was forced to stop and not kill, but he must choose that path himself, not just by force!

I really really do hope that Regina will give the dagger back, though. She has to, right? She could give it to Belle, so Belle would finally be sure that Rumple would never kill or be evil again  :lol:
sneak peek of once upon a time season 3 episode 20 "kansas"

5 May 2014
OUAT 3x20 – enough is enough. I’m so pissed off right now

First of all Rumbelle: they were cute, he was worried for her, she was ready to fight for him, then Belle gave him the dagger because she trusts him… that was very nice, and I thought ‘it’s been a boring season,but then they put here and there moments like this and you forget everything else: I thought just that when he told her to keep the dagger, it seemed an act of faith, of love, so big and strong, I was in tears. So beautiful, like a dream…

And then I was woken up to see that Rumple didn’t mean what he said, that in fact he tricked Belle giving her a fake dagger, making her believe that he really put himself in her hands when he didn’t. He went to kill Zelena after Belle had said “promise me you won’t go after Zelena. You’re better than that”. Of course he didn’t promise, and she was so happy to have him back she didn’t notice, so he didn’t actually ‘break a promise to her’ but that means nothing. The whole killing-Zelena scene was disgusting to me and ruined everything, because he can’t just keep doing the wrong thing again and again and then just say to her ‘I’m sorry’ and everything will be alright. No, it doesn’t, it shouldn’t be like that.

I wanted to overcome all the plotholes, and there were many, but not anymore. I mean, in the first season we saw Graham without his heart and he couldn’t feel anything , now in S3 we have Regina without her heart, but she can love Robin, she can love Henry so much to break a curse, she feels so much like nothing's changed. But I said, it's okay because the scene "you feel with all your soul", and the OutlawQueen romance, and the breaking of the curse were cute. Wrong but cute.

And the Dark Curse, how come this time they thought they would remember everything, and even more, why did they come back to Storybrooke? Did Rumple write a specific address? First time it was to find a land without magic, but now there is magic in Storybrooke, so why did they get here again?

The lock of hair from those with the darkest souls in not needed anynore because it'd boring, I guess.

Many more plotholes, I know, do remind me of them, if you please.

This is the first show where the bad guy is never stopped on time. 

And the Dorothy story, used up all as a useless filler in an episode that would have otherwise been too short.

The little chat between Regina and Zelena was just incredible: Regina giving her a 'second chance'; maybe she's forgetting that when Snow did the same to her, she blew it and then cast the curse: she didn't take it.

She's not living her second chance, she's living her third, maybe fourth one. Or more. 

There are a lot of plotholes and silly things but I put up with them because there were nice moments too, as Charming said in one. First things that come to mind are the unicorn stickers, Rumple with "I will see her again", Emma finding Neal again, when Emma said "with you Regina I always know when you're lying" it was the nicest scene of another otherwise boring episode.

The first series was really beautiful, and the second was too, mostly at least. Maybe not 100%, but it had many beautiful episodes and moments.

I bought both S1 and S2, but it ends there. I will not buy S3. They overdid it this time..This is too much, is worse than Rumbelle being separated, this is as if Rumple didn't care for Belle, as if his want for revenge is stronger than his love, like when he tried to kill Regina an the start of S2. It was understandable than, it isn't anymore.

It's been ruined for me. I know I'm talking on the heat of the moment, and at three o'clock in the morning at that, but I don't think that I will change my mind.

Once upon a time season 3 episode 20

5 May 2014
ouat 3x20 considerations on Rumple
Come to think of it, it's quite true that in Neverland he says he doesn't believe their love to be forever because sooner or later she'll understand what a monster he is and will leave him. Maybe a part of him wants it, because he's lost so much and done so many things, he doesn't believe he deserves her, and doesn't believe he's capable of it. He's pushing it to the point when she'll have to leave him. And then what? What are they planning for them? I don't know, all of this could make sense in a way, but I'm not sure I really care. I'm still really pissed off at what happened, the proposal, as beautiful as it was, is ruined for me now because I know he proposed with a fake dagger, I know he tricked her, he lied to her, he let her down. She doesn't deserve that. Seriously, what has he really ever done for her? Protect her with magic is not that big a deal for someone so powerful, while she stood by him always, she was imprisoned because of her love, twice, was almost killed because she wouldn't betray him. Twice, again. She was always the one to go back to him.
This is not right. They must put it right, and stop screwing things over and over for them.
In the promo for the season finale they don't appear to be important, too.
Btw Rumple assured Neal that he would never be evil again, remember when they came back from Neverland? So not only he tricked and let Belle down, he also broke his word to Neal.
Once upon a time season 3 after episode 20.

13 May 2014
OUAT season finale 3x21 + 3x22 - I don't know, up and downs
I still can't believe there really was a Rumbelle wedding! But on the other hand it seemed like a scene added at the last moment to calm down rumbelle fans. I didn't like it, I must admit. They got married at night, with Belle's father present and just Archie to marry them. No one else was there. All the people were about their business somewhere, a lot of them in the diner, and they were alone. I can understand Rumple doesn't care for people, but what about Belle? Hasn't she made any friends? What about Robin? She saved him. And what about Red? I thought they were good friends. Even Leroy should have been there. In this season she's always been alone. I don't like that. It's not right. Did they even know about the wedding??
I wanted them to have people around at their wedding, to have a normal one. Ok, I'm also mad because of the dagger business. It was evident again that Rumple has safe in his shop the real dagger, and again he tricked Belle when she wanted to give it back to him, thinking she had the real one. Rumple was again talking about how much he trusts her, and wants her to keep it. That makes me so angry. It wasn't the happy ending I was hoping for. He even used her as his alibi, about the Zelena disappearance's business. I don't care if it's "The Dark One", everybody changed in these three years, why do they keep him so dark!!!
They made Regina a hero with white magic, after everything she did as the evil queen. Hunting Snow and the curse were nothing. She slaughtered a lot of innocent people who noone remembers anomore, just like nobody cared to find out who was that Cora killed instead of Archie in season 2. It annoys me when characters die but nobody cares because they're not important. By the way, this finale also means that it was Regina that killed Marien, Robin's wife. How could he not know? She didn't, okay, but he should have known! Otherwise why did he think she was dead?
Plus I don't think it's in Rumple's character to accept like that that his son will die. After all he's doing to find him, it's sufficient that Emma says "he loved you and he died a hero" for him to accept it? Not the old Rumple, I don't believe that. The old Rumple would not have accepted that. I don't understand why they put that scene in.
The whole "back to the future" stuff was nice, but as always all the good stuff and all the true happy endings are all for Snowing.
Once upon a time season 3 finale "snow drifts" and "there's no place like home".