By Brittney Hubbard
Nobody likes when the bad guy wins. Yet the sweet and misplaced fairytale characters of Storybrooke, Main in ABC’s new fairytale drama Once Upon a Time continue to suffer the omniscient reign of the Evil Queen (alternately known as Regina and played by Lana Parilla). This has been my main problem with the past few episodes of this show. But at last, the writers have made a slight shift from the back stories of the characters. The plot thickens and some characters beliefs are tested: watch to see who finds their faith and whose is set adrift.
This week’s theme: the power of a broken heart.
Something at one point or another we can all relate to.
The drama begins in the first scene where Prince Charming (alternatively known as David and played by Josh Dallas) and Red Riding Hood (alternatively known as Ruby and played by Meghan Ory) were searching for Snow White (alternatively known as Mary Margaret and played by Ginnifer Goodwin) being chased by the King’s men. Red assuredly tells Charming to go on after Snow and she’d handle the group hunting them. Little did he know what she planned to do when she looked up at the moon and took off her cloak?
We finally see Snow, and I almost wrote the scene off as a typical Disney script. To my surprise, we see that Rumplestilskin made quite the powerful potion. It was a potion that Snow drank to make her forget her true love. But Rumple teaches us that all magic comes with a price, and all medicine comes with a side effect. Snows potion left her bitter and hateful towards everyone. Snow was in her cottage humming “With a Smile and a Song” when she reached out to a blue bird and abruptly whacked the bird with a broom! The snarling Snow even managed to tick off the most agreeable of dwarves-- Happy. The dwarves stage an intervention, which quickly backfired. That’s when Snow decided to kill the source of her problems- the evil queen. We see Snow go from trying to kill the vermin in the cottage to taking out the Evil Queen. Seeing Snow White as such a blood thirsty ravenous killer was hard for my predispositions to swallow and got me questioning who the evil one is now?
Once Upon a Time is fascinating in that it takes a fairy tale world we thought we knew and makes it more than we ever dreamed.
Back in Storybrooke, Maine we have a crime on our hands- the murder of David’s wife, Kathryn (alternatively known as Abigail played by Anastasia Griffith). David and Mary Margaret are both suspects. Once the evidence points to Mary Margaret, David questions the truth of her alimony. Combine that with the scene in the fairy tale world where Snow tells Charming she will always find him as they drag him away. My heart can’t take any more pain for this couple. Just how many times will life’s forces cause them to forget each other, be separated, and once again have to find one another?
At the close of this episode there are many answers still to be revealed. Is Kathryn really dead? Will all the lost couples ever reunite again? Will good ever trump evil? But as I reflect on this episode I repeat the words of the Evil Queen (Lana Parilla) in this week’s episode “Having your heart broken can make you do unspeakable things.”
And I challenge us to think, do you still have faith in the power of love or Once Upon a Time?
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