Category Archives: Season Six

I live! aka how Once restored my hope with a single scene

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You may or may not have noticed that I didn’t blog about the episode last week. The reason for that is because I didn’t watch it. I had access to the episode from Monday which I was supremely grateful for. However, I’d thoroughly spoiled myself with the liveblog, and the gifsets, and I just couldn’t face it. I didn’t want to watch the scenes with full sound and picture. I felt an incredible disconnect between what I felt, and what it was clear the writers wanted me to feel.

Anyway, when I woke up this morning I had a message saying episode 10 was amazing, which was the best news we’ve had all season. So I steered clear of tumblr to remain unspoiled for 6.10 – I wanted to see for myself and yikes, they really weren’t kidding. My expectations were admittedly low but well they have said repeatedly about “darkest before dawn” and this was like a ray of sunshine and sweet merlin we needed the boost. I might have got a bit incoherent because I was just so damn excited.

Spoilers for 6.09 and 6.10 under the cut and boy was 6.10 amazing!

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The Eye of the Storm

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Last night I watched Sunday’s episode. It took me two hours because I kept having to pause it to make notes. You know I think tumblr did me a favor by taking the edge off because watching it was nowhere near as awful as I thought. Plus writing my fix-it fanfic, made me really try and get in Belle’s head and suddenly the episode started to make more sense.

Now I can’t speak as to the promo for next week because yikes that did look terrible. However, for Sunday’s episode? I said I would try to find some hope and you know what, I think I found some. It took me a while to persuade myself to write this up, I had so many notes and I’m lazy. However, I did it eventually.

Spoilers for 6.08 – I’ll Be Your Mirror under the cut.

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Open Sesame

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Suddenly realized because this was so brief I wrote it on tumblr, rather than here first, and then I forgot to crosspost. I’ve not been well and I didn’t even take my usual notes when watching. Although it doesn’t matter so much because for my favorites it was a filler episode.

Spoilers under the cut for episode 6.05 – Street Rats.

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Love is Weakness

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I haven’t read any tumblr posts on this episode yet, and in all honesty I’m a little scared to see peoples reactions. I have to confess my immediate reaction to the episode wasn’t exactly what I would call favorable, because on the surface it really looks kinda bad. However, this is what headcanon was made to deal with.

I’m tempted to write a fix-it fic because I can think of a way to explain it and turn it positive. However, having written it all out here in theory form, I’m not sure I can be bothered ooops. Anyway, here’s my rambling thoughts on episode 6.04 – Strange Case.

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Evil be thou Good

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I know that quote comes from something creepy, and it probably doesn’t mean what I’m intending it to mean. However, ‘evil be thou good’ keeps popping into my head these days. It seems like watching Once Upon a Time has everything flipped in reverse. The ‘evil characters’ are more good, than the ‘good’ ones these days.

Spoilers for 6.03 – The Other Shoe, under the cut.

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The Queen is Back

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Once Upon a Time returned last night and I saw the episode today … don’t ask me how. I will watch on Netflix on Wednesday as well, because I don’t want netflix to believe that they shouldn’t add it. Anyway, I avoided tumblr, so I wasn’t spoiled beyond normal set spoilers/promos. I still haven’t gone on tumblr so I don’t know what other people thought but I bet it wasn’t very charitable.

I said a few times when blogging season five that it felt like I’d slipped into an alternate dimension where nothing made sense. I couldn’t fathom why characters were acting in certain ways because it didn’t fit with who they had been established to be in the earlier seasons. I had the last few months to think everything over, and to establish headcanons which explained away all the inconsistencies of season five.

Well, the premiere blew those carefully crafted headcanons out of the water so I’m going to have to begin again. It’s no matter, I live for this kind of thing 🙂

Right spoilers under the cut for season six, episode one.

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Season Six Speculation and Writing

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Warning this post contains spoilers for Season Six of Once Upon a Time.

Confession time I’m actually writing fanfiction again these days. I first started writing fanfic when I was 11 and it was predictably terrible. By the time I was 16 I had decided to try and begin writing original works. I think I wrote my last fanfic in 2009 and then I quit. I closed the door on that chapter of my writing life and moved on.

Well a couple of months ago I was struggling. The sequel to my Crime/Sci-Fi novel was going badly, I loathed it so much and writing was an absolute chore. For fun I decided to write a short fanfic story, just to remember what it was like to enjoy writing.

One short story led to another, which led to another, which eventually led to the long multi-chapter work in progress I’m currently writing. Why am I doing this? I hear you ask. Isn’t a waste of time? Shouldn’t I be concentrating on my original novels?

I’m going to tell you a secret now.

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