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Once Upon a Time: 7:15 AM
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This week’s episode of ABC’s Once Upon a Time showed quite a bit of progress in the relationship between Mary Margaret (Snow White) and David Nolan (Prince Charming). In fact, the entire episode features them and begins heading in the direction of how they end up getting married in fantasy land.
Significance of 7:15
The episode begins with Mary Margaret in a rush to “get to school” according to her. She claims she is going in early to help the kids with a science project. In reality, she is headed to the coffee shop where David goes ever morning to buy some coffee to go. Despite him being married, she has to see him.
In the meantime, you learn later on that David makes his early morning coffee run every morning in order to see Mary Margaret and that they share the same feelings for each other. The only thing in their way is David’s apparent wife, who he doesn’t fully remember because of the curse.
Fantasy Background Story
Meanwhile, in fantasy land, Snow White can’t stop thinking about Prince Charming who is scheduled to marry in two days. She seeks Rumpelstiltskin to obtain a potion that will make her forget the prince completely, but Rumpelstiltskin requires a price – a strand of her hair. While it doesn’t explain the significance of that deal at the time, it will likely be important in a future series.
Before Snow can take the potion, she receives a letter from Charming claiming his love for her. He asks her to come to the castle and run away with him. As she enters the castle she finds Charming but before she can speak, she is captured and taken to the dungeon where she meets Grumpy, the dwarf.
Grumpy tells Snow of a love he had and the lies that brought him to the dungeon when his fellow dwarf, Stealthy, sneaks in and releases them both. As they all try and escape, Stealthy gets shot with an arrow (which is why there is no Stealthy in the original Snow White). Grumpy escapes and Snow gets captured and sent to the king.
The king forces Snow to lie to Charming and tell him she doesn’t love him and she does.
How it Ends
On the fantasy side, Snow meets up with Grumpy and the rest of the dwarves and Charming escapes, looking for Snow. But before the dwarves can get word to Snow that Charming didn’t get married, she takes the potion and is unable to remember who they are talking about.
In Storybrook, Mary Margaret and David try and forget about each other because Mary Margaret spots a pregnancy test in the grocery basket of David’s wife. However, they end up finding out that she is not pregnant and the episode ends with them kissing (finally) in public. Unfortunately, the twist is that Mayor Mills (The evil queen) spots them.
Who is the Visitor
We mentioned the strange visitor in the last episode. He doesn’t make much of an appearance except to give some words of advice to Henry and arrange a date with Emma. We do learn his mysterious box contains a typewriter and that he is supposedly a writer. Expect him to play a major role in the few episodes to come.
Once Upon a Time: True North (Spoiler)
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This week’s episode of ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” proved to be a little different because it featured characters that hadn’t previously been introduced, Hansel and Gretel. We’ve had introductions of Jiminy Cricket, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, the Huntsman, the Evil Queen, Prince Charming, and of course Snow White.
But the introductions of Hansel and Gretel are unique because they had not been known in either Storybrook or the fantasy world. We didn’t know of them until now. We’ll get to the reason for their introduction shortly. But first, here is this week’s review of “Once Upon a Time.”
The Plot
“True North” tells the story of Hansel and Gretel a little different than traditionally understood. The twin brother and sister were chopping wood with their father when he sent them off to gather kindling. He gave them a compass to be able to find their way back. While they were away, the evil queen took the father and used the children to get inside the home of the evil blind witch to steal a satchel containing a poisonous apple. You know the rest of the story, Hansel and Gretel get caught by the blind witch because they couldn’t resist their sugar cravings and ate part of her house. After being locked up, they escape and push the witch into the fire.
In Storybrook, the twins find themselves on their own, parentless. They are introduced by getting caught stealing from a grocery store. Emma finds out they are parentless but is reluctant to put them into the foster system, where she had so many bad experiences herself. So Emma sets out to find their dad.
The Twist
You’re probably thinking, “How does any of this add to the overall story?” Well, I thought the same thing up until the final 5-10 minutes of the episode. While trying to locate the siblings’ father, Emma is reminded of an object she had been given from her father (prince charming, but she doesn’t know it yet). It’s her baby blanket. She uses the baby blanket to show Gretel and to see if the little girl had anything from her parents. Gretel gives Emma the compass and Emma is able to use it to find their father (who obviously doesn’t remember them, but eventually takes them in).
In the meantime, Emma leaves the blanket out and Mary Margaret (Snow White) sees it. She picks it up, and while it doesn’t appear she remembers everything, you get the sense she’s starting to catch on.
The End
The episode ends with one final twist. As Emma is talking to her son, Henry, a man on a motorcycle rides up and asks them where the nearest hotel is. They direct him where to go and Emma asks, “I thought strangers never came to Storybrook.” Henry responds, “They don’t,” and the episode ends with that.