Once Upon A Time Review, Episode 2

Once Upon a Time

Season 2, Episode 2 (We Are Both)

This episode was great! It was a little disappointing by the fact that it was almost solely about what was going on in Storybrooke and not the Enchanted Forest. My favorite characters are Emma and Mary Margaret, so I would have liked to have seen more of them. Anyway, this was good.

Barbara Hershey as Cora

It was interesting to see David/Charming find his way without Mary Margaret/Snow White. He had to make the decisions for the town and even admits that he was the brawn while Snow was the brains and the voice. We finally find out what happens to the inhabitants of Storybrooke if they try to leave now that the curse is broken: their Storybrooke personalities become their only personality. This was found out at the beginning of the episode when the Grumpy/Leroy and the rest of the dwarves go to the line to prove themselves to Prince Charming. David, in the mean time, is trying to figure out what he can do to help the town.

David is not only running around trying to save the town, but he is trying to find a way to save Snow White and Emma. He is flying (not literally) around town trying to figure out who the destroyed hat belongs to.

Lara Parilla as Regina/The Evil Queen.

In the Enchanted Forest, Regina/The Evil Queen, is still trying to escape her mother, Cora. She finds out from her father that Cora didn’t always have magic and that some man helped her get it. Regina steals her mother’s book of spells and summons the man who gave her the book: Rumplestiltskin, although she mispronounces his name. He even becomes offended when she asks what he is. Rumple tells her that he knows all about her and even held her when she was a baby. He gives her a mirror and tells her that that’s the only way to be free of her mother. She pushes her mother in and the mirror breaks. Later she admits to Rumple that she loved the power, but doesn’t want to turn into her mother. He says that’s up to her.

In Storybrooke, her story with Henry resembles the story with her mother. Regina is trying to push magic onto Henry while he resists. She realizes that even though she has her magic back this isn’t the way and lets him leave. Regina then tells Henry that she will give up magic for him and try to woo him back.

We get to see August/Pinocchio for a few short minutes (he’s now a wooden boy once more). Gepetto/Marco has flyers up trying to look for him and near the end of the episode Henry tells Marco where to find August, but he’s no longer at Granny’s. I wonder if he is trying to find Marco or if he’s trying to get out of town. Only time will tell.

The episode ends with my two favorites, Mary Margaret and Emma, on the shorts of lake being dragged behind Mulan and Aurora. Mary Margaret tries to free them, but only ends up unconscious as Mulan uses a slingshot against her. They are thrown into a dungeon and the show ends with Cora being alive and offering to help.

The dwarves as the find out what
happens when you try to leave  Storybrooke.

I am intrigued by this episode because there are so many ways it can from here. It looks like Regina is going to try and redeem herself. Things can only get more interesting at this point. So many questions and there are just too many to list. The most important one is: How is Snow White going to react to Cora being alive when The Evil Queen told her that she was dead?