Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 2 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Might As Well Jump
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.30.2012
There's much speculation that MS will end up being Alice In Wonderland's White Rabbit. What do you think? Are you liking him for Henry's father, too? As Charming embraces the boy, Henry says, "She did it. She saved you." Snow adds, "She saved all of us." Emma doesn't know what to say, but Grumpy's wondering why they're still there. The dwarfs pepper the Charming family with questions, most of which are, "What was that smoke?" It's then that Mother Superior Boobs/Blue Fairy arrives and says it was magic. Henry asks her to do something magical, but she says that with no wands or fairy dust, things are more complicated. Grumpy suggests they find the person responsible, "The Queen." Emma tells them it wasn't Regina. We cut to...
Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin (sic) and Belle are still at the magical well. She tells him Regina abducted her and locked her away, into the curse. She's been in the asylum for 28 years. Rumpy is furious. Belle asks if he woke up the magic so he could exact revenge. Rumpy says it isn't, but it will come in handy. Belle makes him promise that he won't give into his hate and kill Regina. She adds, "Promise me that we can be together." He promises and they kiss. I'm not much of an agist but something about that kiss makes my skin crawl. I'm not feeling this couple this year.
Downtown. Emma, Henry, Snow, Charming, Granny, Red and the Dwarfs walk right down the middle of the street. Snow wants to get Emma to open up, but Emma's real superpower is how quickly she walls off her emotions. The only thing she wants to do right now is ask Gold why he double-crossed her and what he'd done to this town. When Snow again tries to talk about them and their lives, Emma suggest they do that later. "With a glass of wine...several...bottles." That she's the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming is a little overwhelming. She needs some time.
Emma's reprieve comes in the form of Archie/Jiminy, who reports that Dr. Whale is leading an angry mob to Regina's house -- to kill her. Grumpy would like to pop some corn and watch. Jiminy reminds them killing is wrong. I'm not so sure that's true. I don't want to Godwin all over you fine folks, but Queenie is their Hitler, is she not? Henry, a redemptionist at heart, backs up Jiminy's appeal to the group's collective conscience, with one aimed straight at their hearts. "He's right. Please. She's still my mom." Some viewers think that while Henry probably would plead for Regina's life, he wouldn't refer to her as his mother, but I like that he did. This is a little boy who was brought up by Regina. Even if he hates her, he would still love her, too. As she said in the pilot, she soothed every fever and blah blah blah mommycakes. Charming points out that if magic has come to town, that angry mob to could be marching to its own slaughter. As the gang runs down the street to intervene. We pan to the library tower. The clock reads 8:25, which means I fretted all summer, for nothing. Thank goodness.