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jedi_of_urthOkay so I’m back to do some reviewing, don’t know exactly what prompted it (aside from a break from trying to write out my massive amount of feelings from TVD), but it seemed like a good idea. This one was on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wigbee71583’s list of OUaT requests so maybe I just wanted to review some early Once.
OUaT: 1x05: That Still Small Voice
I find this to be an odd episode to request/suggest I review, but I do get the impression some people in fandom care about it a lot more than I do. I’ve never really considered Archie/Jiminy that much of a character, and certainly not high on my list of ones I care about so there won’t be a ton on him even in this episode.
Jiminy’s backstory just seems weird to me, but I think part of the problem is that he seems way too old for the way he’s written. If he were a teenage or even early/mid 20’s it would be more believable that he would be so under the thumb of his parents. Or if they seemed more controlling about their behavior, or if he seemed more dependent on them in any way. It’s believable in his first scene as a kid that they have control over his behavior and to some extent his attitude towards what they do; but with that scene it’s also clear that he’s always had reservation about what they do so it’s hard to see why he stayed with it so long. On a middle aged man who’s been a thief his whole life, never evidences affection for the parents who have kept him in this life, and has some sort of association with Rumple you’d think he would have said ‘I’m going it alone’ a long time ago.
As far as the Storybrooke stuff goes...I’m largely meh about it. It continues the make up of the early episodes of establishing how Emma’s presence and actions are slowly shaking things up; this time technically it’s a violent shake up, but the progress on change is still slight, this week focused on Archie and regaining his active conscience.
Which is of course played against the way Mary Margaret and David. Their budding relationship is also in defiance of the Curse, that they’re in this situation at all is because of Emma’s presence weakening the Curse, just like Archie’s story. And yet the people the Curse made them (at least MM since David is kind of a blank slate right now) have consciences too and that puts their ability to pursue their true selves’ desires in conflict with the morality of both personalities they each have (or about one and a half personalities in David’s case at the moment).
Side note, while I’ll never be too angry the show broke the Curse after one season, there’s a small part of me that misses MM and Emma’s s1 relationship where they were peers rather than mother and daughter who look like peers. Of course I love their s2 relationship too, so it goes.
Anyway what is much more effective here is Henry’s story, his desperation to believe and to prove what he believes. He can’t actually explain it, and Emma and Archie have really good reasons for thinking his reality isn’t true and that it could be dangerous if it goes much further; the difference is that Regina knows what he’s saying is true so when she tries to convince him to let it go it’s self-serving rather than wanting the best for him.
In any case I still end up mostly meh about this one. Plus, what is ultimate purpose of setting up Snow’s coffin as being down in the mines? I don’t remember that ever coming up again.
Next time:
Hopefully will come sooner than this came about.
If you have some suggestions/inspiriation...
wigbee71583’s list of OUaT requests so maybe I just wanted to review some early Once.OUaT: 1x05: That Still Small Voice
I find this to be an odd episode to request/suggest I review, but I do get the impression some people in fandom care about it a lot more than I do. I’ve never really considered Archie/Jiminy that much of a character, and certainly not high on my list of ones I care about so there won’t be a ton on him even in this episode.
Jiminy’s backstory just seems weird to me, but I think part of the problem is that he seems way too old for the way he’s written. If he were a teenage or even early/mid 20’s it would be more believable that he would be so under the thumb of his parents. Or if they seemed more controlling about their behavior, or if he seemed more dependent on them in any way. It’s believable in his first scene as a kid that they have control over his behavior and to some extent his attitude towards what they do; but with that scene it’s also clear that he’s always had reservation about what they do so it’s hard to see why he stayed with it so long. On a middle aged man who’s been a thief his whole life, never evidences affection for the parents who have kept him in this life, and has some sort of association with Rumple you’d think he would have said ‘I’m going it alone’ a long time ago.
As far as the Storybrooke stuff goes...I’m largely meh about it. It continues the make up of the early episodes of establishing how Emma’s presence and actions are slowly shaking things up; this time technically it’s a violent shake up, but the progress on change is still slight, this week focused on Archie and regaining his active conscience.
Which is of course played against the way Mary Margaret and David. Their budding relationship is also in defiance of the Curse, that they’re in this situation at all is because of Emma’s presence weakening the Curse, just like Archie’s story. And yet the people the Curse made them (at least MM since David is kind of a blank slate right now) have consciences too and that puts their ability to pursue their true selves’ desires in conflict with the morality of both personalities they each have (or about one and a half personalities in David’s case at the moment).
Side note, while I’ll never be too angry the show broke the Curse after one season, there’s a small part of me that misses MM and Emma’s s1 relationship where they were peers rather than mother and daughter who look like peers. Of course I love their s2 relationship too, so it goes.
Anyway what is much more effective here is Henry’s story, his desperation to believe and to prove what he believes. He can’t actually explain it, and Emma and Archie have really good reasons for thinking his reality isn’t true and that it could be dangerous if it goes much further; the difference is that Regina knows what he’s saying is true so when she tries to convince him to let it go it’s self-serving rather than wanting the best for him.
In any case I still end up mostly meh about this one. Plus, what is ultimate purpose of setting up Snow’s coffin as being down in the mines? I don’t remember that ever coming up again.
Next time:
Hopefully will come sooner than this came about.
If you have some suggestions/inspiriation...
