I live! Okay,
sorry that it’s taken so long to get back to blogging after a long Easter
weekend but I’ve been insanely busy. So,
where were we? Oh yes, back to
Storybrooke Maine as we take a glance at this week’s Once Upon A Time and
uncover the truth about Zelina’s past.
Now, it has been said that we can never know our past completely,
however no one seems to know any of Zelina’s past. So to know her we are going to have to go
back to the beginning, back to where it all started, back to the youth of Cora,
but how?
After a beautiful exchange between our favorite sister
act, it is revealed that although guarded by the dashingly handsome Robin Hood,
Regina’s heart is not as safe as she had planned. Sadly, magic doesn’t play fair and while
distracted by Zelina, Rumple can seize an opportunity to make a move for the
heart. I personally don’t believe the
Rumple wanted it this way, still Zelina holds the dagger and being the dark one
he will use Robin’s weaknesses against him.
Threatening Roland’s life, Rumple forces our favorite rouge to make a
horrible choice, but it is one that Regina understands. I was actually surprised how calm they made
her about the loss, but then again she has been a mother now and understands the
value of a child’s life. There is still
a large problem, Zelina now has her heart, but for what or why no one knows.
Where do you go in Storybrooke when you have magic
questions? To Mr. Gold’s shop, where we
find Regina practically tearing the place apart searching for an answer. Belle has taken up the task of reading
through spell books, but she has also been charged with keeping the shop and
Regina destroying it definitely sets her on edge. It is time Regina faces what she has done to
Belle, I mean what’s a few decades of imprisonment among friends right? Still, her remorse is clear and thus Belle
decides that to save rumple she has to put this past behind her. This is all fine and good, but to be honest I
just really want to get back to finding out where Zelina came from, so with the
help of the killer candle, Regina decides to call the spirit of her mother for
a little heart to err… heart I guess.
Still, what do you say to the mother who was always so cold and
manipulative when you find out that she had a love child, and furthermore who
the heck is the father?!
To find out we have to go back, not only to the Enchanted
Forest but to before any of this had come to pass, back to when Cora was simply
a miller’s daughter. Working as a tavern
girl on the side, our poor Cora is doped by a fraud claiming to be a prince and
gives up her virtue. Call me crazy, but
something tells me there wasn’t much there anyway. Cora has always been ambitious so I think she
was more seduced by the idea of a prince than the actual man. Still the man leaves her with a “gift” and
when she tracks him down, he decides to run out on her… No shock there. Still a collapsed Cora draws the attention of
Prince Leopold, yes Snow White’s father Leopold, and in his good nature he
attempts to help our poor lost Cora.
Cora is charming, and soon her whiles are set to work on the future king
who in his passions spurns Snow’s mother, whom he was sworn to marry, for the
beguiling peasant. What he does not know
is the secret that Cora has been hiding under oversized dresses.
In Storybrooke, after a failing to make contact Regina
and Snow decide it’s time to air out their feelings of guilt remorse and anger
but only seem to arrive at “it’s complicated.”
My, this episode is full of awesome little moments of vulnerability, isn’t
it? Still like all of the sweet or
driving little moments, there needs to be some action and that comes in the
forms of the spirit of a very pissed off Cora.
Possessing Snow, she uses her to tell her story and it’s not one any
Snow fan would want to hear.
Now, why with all of the betrayal and deceit would you
talk about your secrets in a garden that is part of a castle in the enchanted forest? Honestly, the fairytale world is so naive. So when the fraud father of Cora’s soon to be
had baby appears and demands blackmail, you know someone’s listening. Sadly the “who is listening” is more shocking
than the “what she heard.” Spoiled
princess Eva, Snow’s future mother, now has the ammunition she needs to get rid
of Cora and retake her betrothed. As
Snow’s mother you would think she as to have some integrity right? Nope. She practically breaks a shoe running to
Leopold who leaves his darling Cora. No
wonder Cora believed love was weakness, it would seem for her it’s toxic. Not wanting to have to raise Zelina alone,
and trying to erase the heart break she leaves her to the woods, so that Cora
could have her best chance. Kind of
depressing really, and yet I still say Cora is the bigger monster.
So, what has Zelina been up to? Well, like all stories we have reached the
part where the villain reveals her plan to the audience and hers was a
doozey. She wants to go back, all the
way back, and take the life that was meant for her by taking Eva out of the
picture for good. That, is going to
cause major issues because, well no one really exists, or at least not in the same
manner without her. With the ingredients
so far, she has all but one, the Charming’s baby. So now it’s just a waiting game while we
watch and pray our heroes will find a way to defeat the witch before Snow’s
water breaks.
Not all is dark and dismal however, as our story teller’s
wanted to leave us with a hint of on-coming joy. For all of you Queen Outlaw shippers, like
myself, stick around to the end… It will make you smile.
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