Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 288 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT For Whom The Belle Tolls
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2013.01.13
Storybrooke Library. Belle is still hiding in the elevator when Rumpy finds her. She rushes into his arms and Rumpy assures her she now has nothing to fear. We cut to...
Snow's Hovel. Henry is isolating on Snow's bed. Emma brings him a Pop-Tart, but Henry refuses. In the recaplet, I noted that if one of my kids refused a mom-approved Pop-Tart, I'd whip them off to the doctor's office, which isn't much of an exaggeration but someone, somewhere (maybe on our boards) noted that Henry has good reason to avoid any kind of tart. Well played, poster. Well played.
Really, what's going on here is that Henry is depressed. Emma knows this but leaves the goodie next to her boy and returns to the mourners. As Snow tries to encourage Emma, Grumpy ask the ladies when they can return to the Enchanted Forest and their homes. Snow is surprised, and Emma points out how hard they fought to return to Storybrooke. Grumpy says that considering what "Regina" did to "Archie," Storybrooke isn't as safe as they thought. In order to set up next week's episode, he notes that the curse is broken. "There's a whole world full of people beyond the town line who don't know who or what we are. Ever think of what would happen if one of them were to pay us a visit?" Red agrees. She's worried about an outsider seeing magic (or seeing her transform into a wolf). Arms folded across his chest, Grumpy tells Snow, "...While we might enjoy things like penicillin, we're a bit homesick." My friend, Janessa, makes a crude comment about Grumpy and penicillin which I won't repeat here, but shame on her! Snow's face falls as she considers her faithful companion's words (or perhaps his need for penicillin).
Sidebar: Grumpy makes an excellent point about outsiders, which is great. What's annoying is that he also highlights a Storybrooke mythology complication -- one I've studiously tried to ignore. It seems as though we are supposed to believe (and granted, I could be wrong in my assumptions, but just based on what we know so far, Grumpy's comment and the upcoming episode) that before baby Henry, and then Emma, no one from the outside had ever entered Storybrooke. Since then the only other person who has entered town is August. If so (and I hope it's not, and that I'm worrying for nothing), that's stupid. I can accept that no outsiders stayed in town, but it seems to me that someone delivered baby Henry there (unless Regina was able to leave).