Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 387 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2012.11.25
Enchanted Forest. As Aurora sleeps, Mary assures Emma that they'll see Henry again. This will work. When they hear a noise, all the waking members of Team Princess stand at the ready. And we cut to the...
Fiery Room of Dreams. Aurora and Henry struggle toward each other through the flames. Although he's holding onto his magical necklace, Henry once again doesn't seem to be making any effort to control the flames, which he just did last episode, and I'm completely taken out of the moment because it's in this scene that I realize exactly how the rest of the episode will play out, even though 3/4s of it is yet to air. Phooey.
Aurora can't hear Henry over the flames. She can hear some disembodied voice yelling her name, though. Eventually, she is yanked up out of the Fiery Room of Dreams, leaving Henry cowering below. Trust me, I have things to say about that, just not yet.
Forest. Mulan wakes Aurora. It seems Team Princess is under attack from zombie pirates, who are way more piratical and way less zombified. They're limber and handy with swords, and I can't even figure out their point, since The Walking Dead is an AMC series, not an ABC series. I'm not your action recapper. You all know that by now. Suffice it to say that in the struggle, a zombie grabs the compass. Snow could compete against Legolas in an archery event, so she shoots him (er...the zombie, not Legolas) and Emma grabs the compass. Eventually, they realize they've lost Aurora and Mulan. Emma and Snow decide to run for it. The spry zombie pirates inexplicably slow back down, but they're still not lumbering. They're moving at something between a brisk pace and a power walk.
Further in the woods, as Aurora and Mulan try to make their escape, they are overtaken by zombie pirates. And while Snow and Emma seemed, for a while, to stave off a good handful of the critters, famous warrior Mulan can't even deal with two or three. By the time she fights off one, the others have absconded with Aurora. Wow. Were I a Mulan fan, I'd be pissed. Anyhow, Mulan finds Emma and Snow and reports that Aurora is gone, so we flash sideways to...
Gold's Shop. Henry gasps back to consciousness and explains he didn't get the chance to give Aurora the needed information before she was sucked out of the Fiery Room of Dreams. The boy is badly burnt. So we squinch up our faces in concern all through the commercials.