Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 591 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I'm Your Puppet
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2012.04.29
Enchanted Forest, Stormy Sea, Night. Geppetto and a still wooden Pinocchio are on a raft that is no match for the waves. Geppetto wants Pinocchio to take the life preserver. Pinocchio points out that since he's wooden, he'll float. He insists his father take it. Geppetto refuses to risk losing his little toy son, so Pinocchio jumps off the raft and into the sea. As Monstro the whale swims up behind the raft -- mouth open wider than a chewing toddler's, we cut to...
Enchanted Forest, Shore, Day. Geppetto wakes and calls out for his son. He chuckles to himself that the boy saved him, but his laughter turns to tears as he finds Pinocchio face down in a puddle. All right, this is dumb. How does a wooden boy drown? Whatever, here comes the Blue Fairy and her boobs to save the day. She wiggles her wand and Pinocchio becomes a real boy. Father and son marvel at this miracle. Blue giggles. Geppetto doesn't know how he can ever repay her. This is all he ever wanted. Blue tells them to go live their lives together as a family, which when you think about it is really this show's theme. Before the guys leave, Blue tells Pinocchio to remember to be brave, truthful and unselfish. Remember how I said I thoroughly enjoyed this episode? Well, while that was true on first viewing, I am already bored to tears on second watch. Is anyone with me? We cut from a shot of Geppetto putting Pino's dumb hat back on his dumb head to...
Storybrooke, August's Room. We open on the hat and zoom out to see August, who I am not at all surprised to learn is Pinocchio. I'm not upset he's Pinocchio. I've been speculating about this for a while, but I don't know. Maybe I'm dead inside. August dials up Mr. Gold on an actual rotary telephone. Have you kids ever even used one? This one is gorgeous. It seems to be made of copper. Bravo, props department -- what a beautiful find. Anyhow, August tells Gold they have to meet about Emma. "There's a problem." There sure is. As August starts to leave his room, he reels back in pain. He stumbles to a wicker chest at the end of his bed, sits down and pulls up his left pant leg to reveal his left leg is made of wood. Commercial.
Do any of my fellow Lost fans prematurely stop rewinding through the commercials when you see David S. Lee in that Velveeta Cheesy Skillets commercial? It's tricked me at least 3 times in as many episodes. Some of it's the lighting, but mostly it's because we already have older Charles Widmore (Alan Dale, King George) on the show, so I think the brain cells that were taken over by Lost fully expect this commercial to instead be an Enchanted Forest flashback to sometime in King George's youth. Yes, that show broke me. There's no use trying to fix me either. Let's just continue.