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intothewickedwood · 2 years

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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!

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Once Upon A Time In Wonderland

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intothewickedwood · 2 years

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Once Upon A Time Rewatch: 7x09 One Little Tear

Love the opening of this episode.

It was a really interesting decision to make Rapunzel also Tremaine. Who watches Tangled and thinks, “Ah yes, she grows up to become the wicked stepmother from Cinderella.” 

I actually really like young Rapunzel. She goes through absolute hell and she’s extremely determined. A combination that can inevitably lead to disaster if the character walks a destructive path.

I just realised Rapunzel’s Witch having a garden is likely influenced by Into the Woods, though it could be from one of the original tales. “Greens, greens and nothing but greens!”

It’s weird to think Gothel is way older than Rumple. I imagine she’s older than the Blue Fairy as well, but who knows anything when it comes to Blue.

Ow! Those vines straight up cut her!

Poor Rapunzel. Gothel, why are you like this?

Alice must have been marking each day she was trapped as well for her to know exactly how many days she was trapped for. Or maybe she just worked it out by adding them up each time the second star to the right blinked to the north. 

Those lanterns look so pretty. It looks like Anastasia and Drizella let off hundreds of them.

Also, how is it humanly possible for someone’s hair to grow that long in, like, 6 years? The only explanation is Gothel put a spell on it but why? Why didn’t she do the same with Alice’s hair? She didn’t need to brush it to stay young as she was able to stop or significantly slow her aging process for many years before that. I think it was significantly slowed as she seemed to be a teenager or young adult when her family were killed but appears to be in, maybe her late 30s by the time she gives birth to Alice.

But that does make me wonder if Alice can age properly up to a certain point? Did her own physical aging significantly slow after she reached young adulthood? Does she perhaps physically grow a year older every 100 years or so? That seems to be the case with Gothel. And, of course, Alice could take after her father in that sense but it’s fun to think about and she did inherit Gothel’s magic after all.

Oh! Rapunzel wasn’t even being held within the tower by a magical barrier. Imagine when she met Wish Hook and he was like, “Oh yeah, I climbed down and up that tower every day. No big deal.” She would probably want to scream. But I’m with her on this one. Without a rope that tower would be impossible to climb up or down. Maybe she just didn’t think of using her hair before, or Gothel was guarding her or maybe she’s just terrified of heights which is freaking relatable.

I do feel for her. All those 6 years and the only thing keeping her going was the thought of coming back to her family. Finding out that she can’t get back to that, especially since she had made that sacrifice for them, must have been so painful. I wonder if she didn’t use her hair as a rope previously because she was worried that if she escaped her family, with or without her, would lose their happiness and go back to a life of extreme poverty.

Her utter devastation. And poor Ella and Cecelia are caught in the middle of it. They did nothing wrong and they lose each other and everything as a result of entering the family.

So, is the Tweedle that actor also played in Ouatiw related to Marcus?

He still loves Rapunzel. What a difficult situation to be in for everyone involved and she still clearly loves him. Heck, the thought of him and her daughters was all that kept her going for 6 years of hell. The thought of that image that was all you had being destroyed upon being free is horrible. And for it to be so close to her reach, knowing he still loves her, that he would have her back if only the one person stands in her way could part from him. What she did was extremely wrong, but I actually think a lot of people would have done the same thing in her situation if they had a magic solution that didn’t have to result in death. 

I forgot Rapunzel initially refused to hurt Cecilia because she saw her as an innocent, which she was. She thought she’d never be that person.

How did Marcus not suspect that it was her who did something to Cecelia? Rapunzel got her family back out of Cecelia’s heart being poisoned. Who else stood to gain anything from that? I suppose he assumed it had to be a magic user, thinking it was a spell. Or maybe he thought Rapunzel incapable of such a deed. The woman before the tower would never have done such a thing, perhaps. I bet Cecelia knew what she’d done.

Omg Hooking Utensil scene!! I am not ready!! 

Bahahahaha! The thought of Rumple shoving his dagger into Sabine’s hand and asking if she feels anything lmao. Why does that seem like a creepily sexual thing to do? Sabine seems so disturbed. 

He must have suspected Tiana was a potential Guardian. I wonder if she could be. And I wonder if Rumple would have been willing to burden her or even Anastasia with immortality, considering he didn’t know them as well as Alice.

Why did Tremaine suddenly start pronouncing Anastasia’s name like that? It’s presumably wrong because she used to say it the way everyone else does when she was young Rapunzel. Maybe it’s a little joke they had between them or something. 

She’s doing the same thing she learned to do those 6 years while she was trapped. She’s holding onto the memory of Anastasia and expecting her to be exactly as she was when they were separated. That’s why she fixates so much on Anastasia, because she was just how she remembered her before she was trapped in the tower (albeit older). She was the only person or thing that remained the same and who lived up to her memories and imagination.

You know what, Rapunzel was straight up traumatized. She spent all those years in isolation. I never thought of it like that before. Her actions were terrible and inexcusable, but that trauma certainly informed them. Of course, Alice didn’t react the way she did, but everyone reacts differently to traumatic events. Girl needed therapy. Cecelia, Rapunzel’s relationship to Drizella and even Ella could have been saved. Where was Archie when they needed him? Even in present Hyperion Heights you can tell how much those events have both physically and mentally scarred her.

Tremaine: “And for the record, that girl out there hasn’t been my daughter for a very long time.” God, I feel for Drizella here.

Aren’t Disney making a ‘Tremaine’ movie? To be honest they can’t top this backstory. What are they gonna do, show us a bunch of mice beating her mum with a broom and shoving her off a cliff?!

Is Rapunzel their maid?

Cecelia seems so nice. I bet she was a kind mother figure to Alice.

Cecelia was totally ready to invite Rapunzel into their marriage. They could have had a poly relationship if they were all game. 

I think Ella might be the oldest. She’s a lot taller than Anastasia.

Marcus shows signs of wanting to invite her into their marriage too. I wonder if he’s still technically married to both. Maybe they should have outright asked her. Or maybe it just wasn’t for her or wasn’t approved of in the NEF.

Drizella’s just a kid, of course it was gonna be hard for her to adapt to having her birth mother back. For 6 years of her 10 years of life Cecelia was probably the only mother she remembered. She might have seen Rapunzel as a threat to her relationship with Cecelia. 

I understand it must really hurt Rapunzel to see her daughter not giving her a chance and pouring all her affections into her other mother. You can see it’s killing her. 

Rapunzel snapped. 

Rumple is so irritated by Gothel calling herself “Mother Gothel’ on behalf of Alice. It probably makes him think of What he thought was his own mother’s abandonment of him.

Why is Gothel hinting that Tremaine is after Lucy? Doesn’t she want Anastasia awake? 

Victoria’s being a creep. 

Ella, don’t go after the hat! It’s not worth it, girl.

Aww. Anastasia was worried about Ella and followed her. I tend to forget how many years they spent just growing up as sisters.

Marcus was gonna show Rapunzel how much he valued her. Was he gonna propose to her again or was he gonna do something else?

I’m not sure if he specifically went after Ella because of favouritism or if she was the first one he saw. It was fine that he saved Ella first but for God’s sake, save your other daughter too! He gave up so quickly! Rapunzel must have fished her out herself. Maybe he was hurt or something. I have to believe that, otherwise that’s just cruel and it seems like he doesn’t care about Anastasia at all. And I would say the same if he saved Anastasia first and left Ella. The only thing is that if he’d saved Anastasia first and was too tired to save Ella, I don’t know if Rapunzel would dive in to save Ella. She might have done if the other girls begged her. It’s not fair to put so much blame on Ella. Anyone could have made the mistake of going for the hat and she was just a kid. They shouldn’t have let them play there in the first place! And if she blames Ella for Marcus saving her first, that’s ridiculous because it was completely out of Ella’s control.

Interestingly, Victoria insists to Lucy that she is her family but earlier she said that Drizella hasn’t been her daughter in a long time. Does that mean she sees Ella as a daughter? She certainly doesn’t show it.

Wow. Grandmother of the year.

So, the blood magic couldn’t be broken by Anastasia’s mother potentially taking her place? I always assumed it was the blood of the tower’s occupant that kept them trapped but it makes more sense that it’s always been Gothel’s blood that kept any occupant trapped since she used blood magic before she tried to trap Anastasia and had access to her blood. So, Wish Hook could never have taken Alice’s place, which I think I always knew but somehow didn’t put the pieces together that it was Gothel’s bloodline magic that kept Alice entrapped and not Alice’s.

Ha! She got you, Gothel! Serves you freaking right!

Listen, that move was badass on Rapunzel’s part.

Bless Rumple, frantically searching for his great-granddaughter. I’m not sure we ever saw those two interact.

This tear magic is weird. The fact that Lucy’s tears can be used to break curses in a way that puts her under a curse is so dangerous. Every time she cries, they need to collect those tears and burn them or something. Emma’s tears were used to keep Hook separated from her, so it must run in the family. Keep those tears in a safe, Charmings!  

So, I guess Lucy wasn’t under a sleeping curse then? Presumably she suffered the same fate as Anastasia had all those years. I mean, it’s between life and death, so it could be the Neverworld. I’m not sure. That’s probably why True Loves kiss didn’t work between Henry and Lucy when she was in the hospital.

God, poor Lucy. Jacinda must have been terrified.

That was a great episode! I found young Rapunzel to be so complex and compelling. Her backstory was great!

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