#6x13 ill boding patterns

[dinneratgrannys]

It's just you and me. No walls, no secrets. I know I ruined the surprise...but what do you say?

[rumbelle-scream]

"Baelfire's cousin Bonfire" i cant stop coughing-laughing

Once Upon A Time Rewatch: 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns

Okay, no idea which episode this is going to be. Time for a suprise!

Oh God! Not this one!

That man is freaking tall!

Apparently, he’s 6’4”. No way! That’s my uncle’s height but he never seems THAT tall. This dude could straight up wrestle one of those ogres and win.

Who cares if you’re known as a coward? It’s just a word that someone made up years ago. No point getting killed just so people won’t call you a silly made up word. Words mean nothing unless we choose to take meaning from them. We’re all living in a matrix. 

The tall guy seems manipulative. 

It would be like being poked with toothpicks to the ogres. Pointless.

They should have used magic all along! Blue is supposed to be more powerful than the Dark One and the kids were crying out to her. Why couldn’t she have defeated them all years ago?! Because she’s a shady biatch. That’s why.

Killian being called son by David seems so weird given Killian’s age.

Gosh, Harry Potter gets Sirius black as an awesome Godparent and then there’s Gideon, who gets stuck with the freaking Blue Fairy of all people! Can you imagine?

I suppose this kid looks enough like original Baelfire.

Gideon is so dramatic, bless him.

Night night.

What is Robin doing?

What’s he up to?

It’s great that he doesn’t want his son to fall into the darkness like he did. It shows that deep down he thinks evil is the wrong way. 

Umm. Wtf is that with them basically giving Baelfire ‘blackface’ to ‘make him look like a monster’??! That doesn’t even look like mud! Listen, I’m black and these implications are horrible! Why couldn’t they have covered him in sparkly dirt or something gold? They did not think this through at all. Yikes! 

How is he gonna save all those people without his magic?

Where’d he get those golden presumably magic-suppressing-ropes from? Those would have come in handy in the past! 

Rumple tried to do the right thing when he first became the Dark One. He really did.

Oh, it’s Belle’s book that brainwashed Gideon? Why does that not surprise me.

Why didn’t a memory potion work on him?

Oh! It was the cuff, not the ropes that supressed his magic.

Oh God. You don’t understand the horrible sense of terror I had when I first watched this episode. For some reason I thought the Grendel was that bloody terrifying guy in one of the first episodes of OUAT in Wonderland. If you know, you know. I spent every flashback scene squinting with one eye, my heart flipping pounding, especially when they went into the cave! 

This guy has got to be 7 foot!

Zelena: “And then, it’s hello New York City” Of course, we all know she wants to go back to see ‘Wicked’ on Broadway for the 14th time xD. It’s her favourite show! 

I forgot who’s spell it was keeping them in SB now. Split Queen’s, maybe?

I hate this part so much. Anyway, this boy is an imposter because Baelfire would never!! 

Nop, nope, nope, nope, nope. This goes against everything Baelfire stands for!! Why would they do this?! It makes me so angry! It’s not canon! I refuse to accept this as canon! This is Baelfire’s cousin, Bonfire, okay! I hate this so much.

Sure you tried Blue, sure you tried. We all know you threw him off a cloud.

Ow! 

Sorry Blue, but it is a truth universally acknowledged that bitches get stitches.

Rumple and Gideon working together. 

Wtf have they done to Baelfire?! He would never want to enact revenge on someone for pushing him in the mud. He would try to defend them from his father. What is this bullcrap? And now he thinks he needs the dagger. He. Hates. Magic. Don’t you understand your own character, show?

I thought he just needed her blood, not all her magic. 

I used to have the jumper Emma’s wearing. I wonder what happened to it.

Uh oh. The worst time to propose would be now. He should tell her first. The secret we know he’s holding back kinda kills this moment. 

Are Zelena and Regina gonna make up now? 

Regina: “I guess I’ll always be paying the price for what you did- what I did.” Yay! Progress! 

Split Queen’s gone!

Ow! Why’d she bite him? Are cobras venomous, I wonder.

[likehandlingroses]

OUAT Rewatch 6x13 - Ill-Boding Patterns

I’ve already lost one son. I won’t lose another.

[fuckyeahbelleandrumpelstiltskin]

OUAT Auction Masterpost: Rumplestiltskin’s Costumes 

[vickyjona]

Rumplestiltskin on the episode 'Ill-Boding Patterns'.

[swanprincessswift]

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

Initial Thoughts: 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns

Okay, I’m going to do my level best to keep this short and sweet, because I really am tired, and I need to get some sleep.  I need to get this down, though, because tomorrow it’s back to my Lent restrictions, so I’ll only give myself an hour a day to engage in any kind of fandom.

Long story short?  I really liked the episode.  Shocking, but that was a Rumple episode that I didn’t walk away from feeling even worse about Rumple than I did going into it.  That hasn’t happened for a looooooong time!  I actually kind of sympathized with him in this episode, although I have some issues with some of the writers’ choices.  This was a powerful episode for Regina, and her redemption is definitely in full swing.  And then there’s CS.  The proposal both made my fangirl heart sing...and burst into broken tears.  So that’s the Reader’s digest version.  Here’s a little more in-depth look:

Rumple, Bae and Gideon

As I said, I was pleasantly surprised at Rumple in this episode.  Neither his actions in the past or in the present were completely without issue, but they really brought his love for his sons to the forefront.  I think it’s clear that if he is redeemed (as it looks like he will be, given the direction the writers are taking), it will be through sacrifice and love of his son.

In the past, we see some of Rumple’s first days as the Dark One.  Rumple wasn’t completely sold to the darkness in the beginning of this episode.  He used the darkness to defeat the ogres, but he still wanted to be a good man at that point.  When Bae begged him to refrain from using dark magic, he agreed even to give Bae his dagger.  That was huge.  But when Bae decided to use the dagger to command him to kill Beowulf, the effects of the darkness were complete.  Rumple gave into the addiction, and it was all downhill from there.

Beowulf certainly was no hero in the OUAT version!  Dude...you want to turn the villagers against Rumple by killing another whole group of villagers?  Serious overkill.  Also...did you not realize the villagers are already starting to turn on him?

Bae beginning to be ensnared by the lure of the darkness was not a twist I expected.  Rumple giving him a memory potion--which not only made him forget about his pull to the darkness, but also made him horrified at Rumple killing Beowulf--was truly a selfless act on Rumple’s part.  I’m impressed.

My problem with the flashback?  It did seem to rewrite show history a bit.  Rumple was already all in with the darkness by that point--shown in visual form by his sparkly golden face.  He gave into the darkness when he killed Zoso to become the DO.  If that wasn’t enough to solidify the darkness’s hold on him, his murder of the duke and the soldiers sealed his fate.  Quite simply, Rumple was already too far gone at the point this episode began, so he shouldn’t have struggled with it as much as he did.

Now, moving on to the present part of the storyline.  It’s clear that Rumple truly loved Gideon.  He may be pretty dark himself, but he very much does not want Gideon to make the same mistakes he did.

Tying him up in the clocktower and then trying to use the memory potion on him...that was clearly the wrong move.  It started the whole chain of events that  made his choice near the end possible.  Using the memory potion may have been the right move with Bae in the past, but it was taking a shortcut in the present.  And as this whole season has shown us, taking shortcuts toward doing the right thing never works out, and is never the right move.

So Gideon steals the dagger and makes Rumple tell him what he needs to know about making the sword whole.  Look, Gideon, I get it.  Sounds like grandmama dearest was a real piece of work, and I get you wanting to defeat her, but this “kill the savior so that I can become a savior” thing is a bad, bad idea.  Murder is not the way to become a hero.

Then we have the scene with Blue.  This was the one Rumple scene in the episode that really bothered me.  Rumple takes all of Blue’s magic to restore the sword for Gideon.  I get why he did it...and his motives actually weren’t bad.  He wanted to save Gideon from blackening his heart, and he also wanted to buy them time to stop him before he kills Emma.  Good motives; I approve.  What I don’t approve of is using dark means--intentionally injuring an innocent (albeit shady, lol) person--and further darkening his heart  to do it.  Evil done for a good purpose is still evil and it’s not justified.  I like that Belle recognized the good intentions behind Rumple’s act, but I don’t like that she praised him for doing something evil in service of that good intention.  To be clear, this isn’t a Rumple criticism as much as it is some serious reservation about the message the writers are putting forth here.

So, altogether, Rumple did not make perfect decisions, but he’s heading in the right direction.

Regina/Robin/Zelena/EQ

Wow!  This was a really good episode for Regina.  She was willing to find a way to free Robin from the town line restriction so he could go out in search of his happiness.  That’s true love there.  Beyond that, she took ownership of her evil acts as the EQ, and she fully admitted the split was wrong.  She worked to rectify that.  Definitely moving along the path of redemption.  Kudos to Regina there!

Wish World Robin is quite a bit sneakier and more villainous than the Robin we know and love.  He certainly isn’t ready to go on the straight and narrow.  I kind of get it though.  He can see that Regina is constantly comparing him to the man who died for her, and he doesn’t think he could ever live up to that.

Zelena....what to say about Zelena?  I still haven’t decided whether I think she’s going to cast her lot with team!evil or team!good.  Right now, she’s firmly team!Zelena.  Her team up with WW Robin, certainly wasn’t a heroic move, but in the end, she wasn’t really after anything evil.  She just wanted the same thing he did--a chance to get away and live the life she wanted without Regina looking over her shoulder.

I also thought it was a mark in the “Zelena will choose good” column that Zelena apologized to Regina and was there to help her reintegrate (that was what Regina was about to do in her vault, wasn’t it?  I’ll probably have to rewatch to make sure.

And then there’s the EQ.  Clever way of de-snaking herself, biting Robin and getting the benefit of his “ant-spell” potion.  I, however, have a very bad feeling about her teaming up with WW Robin there at the end.  This could be bad...

Captain Swan

Okay, I have to say I liked the CS and Killian moments in this episode!  Of course, the proposal was shadowed a bit by the fact Killian hasn’t told Emma about her grandfather yet, but it was still really romantic.

Killian’s talk with Archie at Granny’s was a true testament to how much he’s changed.  Archie was a great sounding board, and the advice he gave Killian was spot on.  The fact that Killian believes he’s the only person who knows about what really happened to David’s father and yet he wants to tell Emma says a lot about how much his heart has changed, and how completely he’s become a hero now.  As he mentioned to Archie, if he’s the only person who knows the truth, he can take the secret to his grave, and no one need be any the wiser.  But Killian knows that’s not something he can live with anymore.  He knows he has to tell Emma even if he loses her because of it.

I was really proud of Killian for going to Emma and planning to confess.  But then she basically derailed his plans with her revelation that she found the engagement ring.

No, Killian shouldn’t have gone ahead with the proposal there.  That’s a given.  Still, I honestly can’t say I would have had the strength to do anything differently than he did.  Emma is incandescently happy, telling him she’ll accept when he proposes, running into his arms, kissing him, looking at him with such pure love and devotion.  The thought of giving that up, of destroying that has got to be terrifying.  Quite simply, his love for Emma and hers for him overwhelmed him and he simply didn’t have the strength to tell her something that might bring her whole world (and his) crashing down around them.  I’ve no doubt he’ll do the right thing in the end (actually, probably in 6x14 if I read the promo right), but for right now, I can understand him needing this moment of happiness.

The proposal itself was beautiful.  It was simple, without all Killian’s flowery language, but it was the looks in both of their eyes, the way they obviously both love each other to distraction that had my heart swooping pleasantly.  Yeah, the moment might not have been perfect due to Killian’s secret, but it was still a CS engagement!  Our babies are still engaged to be married!  Let’s celebrate!

[besselfunctions]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Blue

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[allaboutjmo]

‪📸 Jen as Emma Swan from “Once Upon A Time” episode 6x13 “Ill-Boding Patterns” ‬

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[onceuponaseriesrewatch]

Once Upon a Series Rewatch Press Release 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns

6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns

Summary: When Gideon resumes his mission to kill Emma and become the Savior, Mr. Gold steps in to ensure that the use of dark magic does not poison his son.  Meanwhile, Robin proves willing to ally himself with anyone offering the possibility of escape from Regina and Storybrooke.  Hook gathers the courage to come clean to Emma, but not before she discovers he’s been keeping a secret.  And in a flashback to Fairy Tale Land, the legendary folk hero Beowulf sets his sights on Rumplestiltskin after the Dark One uses his powers to defeat the ogres and win the war for humanity.

Written by: Andrew Chambliss, Dana Horgan

Directed by: Ron Underwood

Staring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White/Mary Margaret); Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan); Lana Parrilla (Evil Queen/Regina); Josh Dallas (Prince Charming/David); Emilie de Ravin (Belle); Colin O’Donoghue (Hook); Jared S. Gilmore (Henry Mills); Rebecca Mader (Wicked Witch/Zelena); Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold)

Guest Starring: Sean Maguire (Robin of Locksley); Keegan Connor Tracy (Blue Fairy/Mother Superior); Raphael Sbarge (Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper); Giles Matthey (Gideon); Brandon Spink (Baelfire); Torstein Bjorklund (Beowulf); Samuel Patrick Chu (frightened soldier); Chris Loubardeas (reveling soldier); Angela Moore (villager)

Ill-Boding Patterns airs January 12 at 8:00 pm EST

[abovethemists]

@sieben9, just so you can truly appreciate the height difference between these two.

[dinneratgrannys]

BELLE FRENCH 6.13, Ill-Boding Patterns

[intothewickedwood]

Once Upon A Time Rewatch: Links to My Recaps

So, I finished 3 year long rewatch of ouat & ouatiw a few weeks ago and I thought I’d post links to my live reaction posts of each episode. If anyone’s interested in anything specific you can find it here. It’s also just to have them all in one place. I would love to see your comments about the episodes or in regards to any questions I raised, or anything really if you would like to add anything! I’d love to talk Ouat with you!

All Episodes Tag

Chronological Order | Last To First Order

Season One

1x01 Pilot | 1x02 The Thing You Love Most | 1x03 Snow Falls | 1x04 The Price of Gold | 1x05 That Still Small Voice | 1x06 The Shepherd | 1x07 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 1x08 Desperate Souls | 1x09 True North | 1x10 7:15 A.M. | 1x11 Fruit of the Poisonous Tree | 1x12 Skin Deep | 1x13 What Happened to Frederick | 1x14 Dreamy | 1x15 Red-Handed | 1x16 Heart of Darkness | 1x17 Hat Trick | 1x18 The Stable Boy | 1x19 The Return | 1x20 The Stranger | 1x21 An Apple Red as Blood | 1x22 A Land Without Magic

Season Two

2x01 Broken | 2x02 We Are Both | 2x03 Lady of the Lake | 2x04 The Crocodile | 2x05 The Doctor | 2x06 Tallahassee | 2x07 Child of the Moon | 2x08 Into the Deep | 2x09 Queen of Hearts | 2x10 The Cricket Game | 2x11 The Outsider | 2x12 In the Name of the Brother | 2x13 Tiny | 2x14 Manhattan | 2x15 The Queen is Dead | 2x16 The Miller's Daughter | 2x17 Welcome to Storybrooke | 2x18 Selfless, Brave and True | 2x19 Lacey | 2x20 The Evil Queen | 2x21 Second Star to the Right | 2x22 And Straight on 'til Morning

Season Three

3x01 The Heart of the Truest Believer | 3x02 Lost Girl | 3x03 Quite a Common Fairy | 3x04 Nasty Habits | 3x05 Good Form | 3x06 Ariel | 3x07 Dark Hollow | 3x08 Think Lovely Thoughts | 3x09 Save Henry | 3x10 The New Neverland | 3x11 Going Home | 3x12 New York City Serenade | 3x13 Witch Hunt | 3x14 The Tower | 3x15 Quiet Minds | 3x16 It's Not Easy Being Green | 3x17 The Jolly Roger | 3x18 Bleeding Through | 3x19 A Curious Thing | 3x20 Kansas | 3x21 Snow Drifts | 3x22 There's No Place Like Home

Season Four

4x01 A Tale of Two Sisters | 4x02 White Out | 4x03 Rocky Road | 4x04 The Apprentice | 4x05 Breaking Glass | 4x06 Family Business | 4x07 The Snow Queen | 4x08 Smash the Mirror, Part 1 | 4x08 Smash the Mirror, Part 2 | 4x09 Fall | 4x10 Shattered Sight | 4x11 Heroes and Villains | 4x12 Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4x13 Unforgiven | 4x14 Enter the Dragon | 4x15 Poor Unfortunate Soul | 4x16 Best Laid Plans | 4x17 Heart of Gold | 4x18 Sympathy for the De Vil | 4x19 Lily | 4x20 Mother | 4x21 Operation Mongoose, Part 1 | 4x22 Operation Mongoose, Part 2

Season Five

5x01 The Dark Swan | 5x02 The Price | 5x03 Siege Perilous | 5x04 The Broken Kingdom | 5x05 Dreamcatcher | 5x06 The Bear and the Bow | 5x07 Nimue | 5x08 Birth | 5x09 The Bear King | 5x10 Broken Heart | 5x11 Swan Song | 5x12 Souls of the Departed | 5x13 Labor of Love | 5x14 Devil's Due | 5x15 The Brothers Jones | 5x16 Our Decay | 5x17 Her Handsome Hero | 5x18 Ruby Slippers | 5x19 Sisters | 5x20 Firebird | 5x21 Last Rites | 5x22 Only You | 5x23  An Untold Story

Season Six

6x01 The Savior | 6x02 Bitter Draught | 6x03 The Other Shoe | 6x04 Strange Case | 6x05 Street Rats | 6x06 Dark Waters | 6x07 Heartless | 6x08 I'll Be Your Mirror | 6x09 Changelings | 6x10 Wish You Were Here | 6x11 Tougher Than the Rest | 6x12 Murder Most Foul | 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns | 6x14 Page 23 | 6x15 A Wondrous Place | 6x16 Mother's Little Helper | 6x17 Awake | 6x18 Where Bluebirds Fly | 6x19 The Black Fairy | 6x20 The Song in Your Heart | 6x21 The Final Battle, Part 1 | 6x22 The Final Battle, Part 2

Season Seven

7x01 Hyperion Heights | 7x02 A Pirate's Life | 7x03 The Garden of Forking Paths | 7x04 Beauty | 7x05 Greenbacks | 7x06 Wake Up Call | 7x07 Eloise Gardener | 7x08 Pretty in Blue | 7x09 One Little Tear | 7x10 The Eighth Witch | 7x11 Secret Garden | 7x12 Taste of the Heights | 7x13 Knightfall | 7x14 The Girl in the Tower | 7x15 Sisterhood | 7x16 Breadcrumbs | 7x17 Chosen | 7x18 The Guardian | 7x19 Flower Child | 7x20 Is This Henry Mills? | 7x21 Homecoming | 7x22 Leaving Storybrooke

Once Upon A Time In Wonderland

1x01 Down the Rabbit Hole | 1x02 Trust Me | 1x03 Forget Me Not | 1x04 The Serpent | 1x05 Heart of Stone | 1x06 Who's Alice | 1x07 Bad Blood | 1x08 Home | 1x09 Nothing to Fear | 1x10 Dirty Little Secrets | 1x11 Heart of the Matter | 1x12 To Catch a Thief | 1x13 And They Lived…

[wicked-storybrooke]

[fuckyeahbelleandrumpelstiltskin]

Ill-Boding Patterns (3/19)

GOLD TAKES ACTION TO PROTECT GIDEON FROM THE TAINT OF DARK MAGIC, AND EMMA LEARNS THAT HOOK IS HIDING SOMETHING FROM HER, WHILE ROBIN AND ZELENA FORM A DANGEROUS ALLIANCE, ON ABC’S ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’

Sean Maguire Guest Stars as Robin of Locksley and Giles Matthey Returns as Gideon

“Ill-Boding Patterns” – When Gideon resumes his mission to kill Emma and become the Savior, Mr. Gold steps in to ensure that the use of dark magic does not poison his son. Meanwhile, Robin proves willing to ally himself with anyone offering the possibility of escape from Regina and Storybrooke. Hook gathers the courage to come clean to Emma, but not before she discovers he’s been keeping a secret. And in a flashback to Fairy Tale Land, the legendary folk hero Beowulf sets his sights on Rumplestiltskin after the Dark One uses his powers to defeat the ogres and win the war for humanity, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 19 (8:00–9:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network.  

“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as the Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Rebecca Mader as the Wicked Witch/Zelena and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.

Guest starring are Sean Maguire as Robin of Locksley, Keegan Connor Tracy as the Blue Fairy/Mother Superior, Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper, Giles Matthey as Gideon, Brandon Spink as Baelfire, Torstein Bjørklund as Beowulf, Samuel Patrick Chu as Frightened Soldier, Chris Loubardeas as Reveling Soldier and Angela Moore as Villager.

“Ill-Boding Patterns” was written by Andrew Chambliss & Dana Horgan and directed by Ron Underwood.

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[vickyjona]

The most beautiful Rumbelle moment after all this time of angst & heartbreak.