Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 187 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT PANgs
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
Camp Operation Cobra Rescue. Regina tries to talk Emma out of believing any of this Neal nonsense, while Snow argues why she thinks this isn't a trick. When Emma can't deny the evidence, Regina says, "Fine. You want to follow the evil munchkin's dirt road, be my guest." [That is my verse, hello. --Lumiere] As she starts off, Emma asks where she's going. Regina says, "To save our son." I'm glad to see that like Emma, she's started to think in terms of "our" rather than "my" son. Emma says they have to stick together. Regina laughs. "No we don't. You may be prepared to risk Henry's life over some heartbroken fool's errand, but I'm not. I'm tired of waiting around."
It's good Regina is gone, because her presence with the Charmings was making less and less sense. Emma turns to Snow and asks what if Regina is right. Snow says Emma owes it to Henry to find out if his father is alive and, "...you owe it to yourself." For the rest of this recap, I am pretending/assuming that Snow doesn't know the half of how Neal treated her then 17-year-old daughter. I've decided that based on last season, Snow just thinks "something" went wrong. All she's seen of Neal is a guy who came back, as soon as he learned he had a son. And from her perspective, all she's seen is that Emma has feelings for him. I have to think this, or for the rest of the episode I'm going to want to hurl my shoe at Snow White. The problem is, she lives in my TV and I can't afford a new one. We flash back to the...
Enchanted Past. Eric's Castle. Under the Sea Ball. No, I don't get what's going on with these costumes either. The ladies are all in short, albeit fancy dresses, while the men are in (various) period costume(s). Snow's ensemble is unusual, in that the top seems to be just a sleeveless white blouse, with a little flourish at the neckline, while the skirt is a fluffy pink confection. Ariel's dress looks like a pale blue bridal ball gown -- the skirt of which has been chopped off. I must say, though, I'm grateful for this different look, because it helps shore up what I was saying last week, about how the fairy tale worlds' pasts don't have to track to our world's history.
It's clear from the ladies' conversation that Snow somehow obtained the dresses she and Ariel are wearing. No, that hardly seems plausible to me either, since Snow is an outlaw on the run, but she's a fairy tale character, so I can accept there was some kindly fairy (or considering my opinion of the dresses -- a vengeful one) or dressmaker who helped them out. What I can't accept is that Snow didn't run a comb through her damned hair. Seriously, Show. She's a princess. She's supposed to have good hair. I accept it being a mess when she's on the run, but if she can get two fancy dresses, her hair shouldn't be straggly like that. We know it's a wig. Couldn't there be two Snow White wigs, and couldn't one of them be styled, or at least brushed, for times like these?