Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 283 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2013.03.03
Sidebar: Look, I know it's my job to laugh at all the improbabilities here -- that Hook sailed to Manhattan in record time, knew where to find Gold, blah blee bloo. I don't care. I complain and poke fun when I'm in the mood, but seeing how I've already fully bought into Rumpelstiltskin and Captain Hook being mortal enemies, I can make do with the slim explanations offered within the story. These characters are from another world with other rules and have other abilities than our own. Hook said his ship was made of enchanted wood. I don't need this to make ordinary sense. I respect you too much to fake up ire, when I'm currently ire-free. And to be perfectly truthful, I'm grateful to the writers for not bogging me down in mundane detail in some attempt to make these fantastical events make sense. There's no way it would be fun to recap.
Storybrooke. David and Snow drive to the convent to seek Blue's help. Yes, Snow calls her "Mother Superior," but c'mon, Show and Snow. Call her Blue. I'm sorry. I still don't like it when Enchanted intimates are more comfortable using the Storybrooke names. That's my problem, I know. I'm hardly consistent these days, but I like to think I'm at least consistently inconsistent, or would that be inconsistently consistent. Whatever. Blue's magic is pretty impotent in Storybrooke, but she has sensed a disturbance in the force, that is, she knows a lot of dark magic has been expelled. They fill them in on Cora and Regina's search for the dagger, then Snow says, "Please, Mother Superior. You're our only hope." If this show brings in Star Wars characters, please look for the remains of my brains on my office window. We cut to the...
Enchanted Past. While Snow is still puzzling out which star to wish on, "Blue" appears, but I don't feel like pretending we don't already know she's Cora, magicked up to look like Blue. Snow is surprised to see Clue, if you will. Clue says she knows when she's needed and why. Clue claims fairy magic cannot save the Queen, but dark magic can. Swearing the young girl to secrecy, Clue poofs up enchanted candle. If Snow burns it for her mother, it will save her life, but all magic comes with a price, dearies. Clue says in order for Eva to live, someone must die in her place. Snow must hold the candle over the heart of the sacrifice of her choosing and whisper the person's name. When the candle is lit, the victim's life will be traded for Eva's. While Snow may be young, her heart is true. Knowing how much stock Eva has put in raising her daughter to be good, the tearful Snow refuses to sacrifice a life to save her mother. Clue says, "Well, then I'm afraid she will die." Commercial.