Episode Report Card LuluBates: A | 2 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Why the Caged Bird Sings
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.22.2012
Back in the real world, Mary Margaret is at the store picking up some chocolate and Boone's (I'm guessing) to drown her sorrows when -- OOPS she runs full body contact into Catherine. The contents of their baskets go flying and they scurry to pick things up and out-polite each other. While Catherine tut tuts over Mary Margaret's sad lady supplies, Mary Margaret is in complete horror over the pregnancy test that Catherine is buying. She mumbles good luck and Catherine smiles. Of course Regina is standing right there and can't help but butt in and remind Mary Margaret to be discreet and not blab all over town that the man she loves knocked up his wife. Mary Margaret nods dutifully instead of yelling DUH in Regina's smug face. She should probably go eat some chocolate now to dull the pain. Maybe we should all join her.
In a castle in the alterna-reality, Prince James is staring out a window, probably to avoid looking in the mirror and seeing himself in those tights which are not really doing him any favors. His dad comes in and reminds him that the feast he is watching so intently was thrown in his honor and maybe he should go downstairs and enjoy the dern thing? James can't even pretend to be excited about the prospect, so his dad unveils a pretty golden crown to cheer him up. Uh oh, James is not interested. While we see a lovely gold crown, he sees the means to feed his kingdom wasted on something you wear on your head. I'm pretty sure the royal family felt the same way about the Philip Treacy fascinators that Princess Beatrice wore to the Royal Wedding right?
Anyway, his dad points out that it was a gift from King Midas so he could at least pretend to be pleased by the gift. James smiles wanly and then his dad reveals that he totally knows that James isn't into his pre-arranged marriage. He points out that James' heart can't belong to Abigail if it belongs to another woman. Who is she? James swears that it was just some chick he met on his travels and he hasn't seen her since. He promises that he will wed Abigail and she shall have his heart, but Daddy-O isn't buying it. He gets his mad face on and reminds James that he was chosen to be his son! Plucked from poverty! And this is the gratitude he gets for a life full of turkey legs and tights? He orders James to do whatever it takes to get that woman out of his head because nothing is going to stop this wedding. I mean, shit, it's King Midas' daughter. Just marry her already! As Mad Dad leaves, James springs into action writing no, not a thank you note to King Midas for the lovely and thoughtful gift, but a note to his beloved Snow and sending it out on the wings of a dove.