Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 386 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT PANache
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Regina turns from wee Henry to her potion station (what would you call it). She pours her ingredients into a chalice. "There was still an evil out there lurking. The Queen was worried for her prince's safety. While she knew she could vanquish any threat to the boy, she also knew she couldn't raise him worrying." Regina, Whale could write you a prescription for Ativan. She ignores me and continues: "No, she needed to put her own trouble aside, and put her child first." Regina adds the additional ingredients to the potion -- which starts to smoke. "And so the Queen procured an ancient potion of forgetting." When Henry fusses, she turns to him and says, "Oh, it’s all right. If the Queen drinks the potion she won’t forget her child. She’ll only forget her worries, her troubles, her fears." Regina adds the final, dark ingredient. More smoke rises from the chalice. "And with those gone, she and her prince can, indeed, finally live happily ever after." Look at Baby Henry, even he is shaking his head.
Regina raises the cup in Henry's general direction, then drinks deep. After she sets down the chalice, it and all the magical ingredients magically disappear from this world which should be without magic. Regina gasps. Tears stream down her cheeks. Wiping them, she turns to crying baby Henry, greets him, and picks him up. "What shall we do, today?" The smart money says both of you will spend a good amount of time crying.
I can't decide if this whole plot was silly. I mean Regina created the problem she was worried about, by making Sidney dig into Henry's origins. She fixes the problem by making herself forget. I guess that's typical Regina. Really, what's atypical is that for once, she uses her evil powers on herself. Do you think that by forgetting her worries, troubles and fears, she somehow magicked away her ability to regret any evil she did prior to taking the potion? Is that why Pan's regret tree couldn't hold her? I can't decide. We flash forward to...
Neverland's Waters. Below the Jolly Roger's deck, Henry lies on Hook's bunk. Regina sits at his side. She teases him that his look reflects, "Five hours of Space Paranoids and too much pizza." Henry allows that pizza is good. Being a polite boy, he doesn't call her out on how Space Paranoids isn't really a thing. (It's totally not.) Regina can't leave a tender moment alone, so she raises her hand above Henry's heart and magics up some spell. Henry says it stings and asks what she's done. Regina says, "A spell, so no one can ever take your heart, ever again." So good luck getting married, Henry. Henry is only 11, so he's down with that. He takes Regina's hand and says, "Thanks, Mom." Regina smiles down at her boy and kisses him on the forehead. "We'll be home soon, my little prince." She rises then and leaves him. She leaves him even though there is no one else there to guard Henry -- the MacGuffin she and we have spent the season chasing. Are you shitting me, Show?
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