OUAT 3.15

OMG, you could knock me over with a feather!  I didn't really expect the quality of the episodes to last, but I am continuing to be pleasantly surprised.  And they killed off the one character in this episode!  I totally thought they would drag that out 'til the end of the season.  Anyhoo, thank God it was not one of my honeys so I was all like this: 

And then there was much awesomeness with Regina and Robin Hood.  He shot at her with a crossbow(that he likely stole from Cabellas) and she caught the freakin' arrow with her lightning-fast Shaolin skillz and Robin Hood was all like, 'Oh sorry, I thought you were the witch' and Regina was all like:

Wha'chu talkin' 'bout, Robin Hood?

Then they slyly checked out each others arses and later Robin got all up in her personal space and they had a bit of eye sex and then Regina got all spazzy and happiness-phobic and bolted the fuck outta there.

And then there was all sorts of crazy shit and awesomeness and Lumiere!  Although I had to look up who that character was(I kinda had an inkling even though I never actually watched that particular Disney movie).  I'm just glad the way they did him looked really cool and he was less annoying than that animated character.

So yeah, another really good episode. Sorry I couldn't write more about it but it was chock-full of spoilers. :)

And the next episode looks totally awesome...Witch Fight at the OK Corral!!!

Don't play with your food, dear.

Madness abounds on OUAT and also at El Castillo de Xul, so here's a video to go with today's theme. :)



Can I play with madness?

Give me the sense to wonder
To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder
To know I can be me
Give me the strength to hold my head up
Spit back in their face
Don't need no key to unlock this door
Gonna break down the walls
Break out of this bad place

Can I play with madness?
The prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness?
There's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness?
The prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness?
He said, "You're blind too blind to see, yeah"
He said that you're blind to see, yeah

I screamed aloud to the old man
I said, "Don't lie, don't say, you don't know"
I say,"You pay for this mischief
In this world or the next"
Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance
And the hellfire's raged in his eyes
He said, "Do you wanna know the truth
I'll tell you the truth"
Your souls gonna burn in a lake of fire

Can I play with madness?
The prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness?
There's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness?
The prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness?
He said, "You're blind too blind to see"

Can I play with madness?
The prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness?
There's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness?
The prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness?
He said,"You're blind too blind to see"
Can I play with madness?

OUAT 3.12 AKA The SwanQueen Show...

...or the Lana Parrilla show, cuz she certainly knocked it out of the park this episode.  Holy shnykeez!  There was platonic Swan Queen!  Althought, they had me totally faked out at the beginning.  The peasants were revolting and trying to blame the New Major Problem on Regina like always.  And freakin' Emma was going along with it!  I was all like, 'Oh for fuck's sake, are we back to the hate on Regina thing again?'  All the idiots were like, 'Yeah, we know who's responsible!'  And Regina's all like...
 

And then they started getting riled up into angry mob mode(like that worked out so well for them the last time /sarc).  Just then, Regina's like, 'Okay, assholes, you want to believe I'm still acting like the Evil Queen? Well how about this?' and summons the most massive idiot-blasting hadouken evar and blasts the whole place and then poofs the hell out of there in a puff of purple smoke.  It was so awesome!  Then Emma goes into tough-girl hero mode and goes after Regina like she was going to kick her ass or something.  She finds her at the Mayor's office and then they were like...

 

(Yeah, I'm fully aware of the double entendre there)

And then I was like this cuz they totally faked me out with that.  There were lots of Emma and Regina scenes that were really good, but I can't say anything cuz spoiler 'n' stuff, but I reeeeeally enjoy those two playing nice with each other.

After all that, Regina starts making a potion that looked an awful lot like Black Sambuca. She took a swig, but it didn't work, so she chucked the glass across the room, smashing it against the wall.  I was thinking, 'That's the only appropriate thing to do with sambuca.'  ;P 

The Enchanted Forest scenes were totally awesome as well since it was mostly Regina scenes with Lana stealing the show.  She left the idiots in the woods(cuz let's face it, they were totally useless in Neverland)to go on a solo suicide mission to break into her castle since WW had taken up residence.  She's lifting a humongous boulder that's hiding the secret passageway with her mind all telekinesis style when Robin interrupts.  He had been following her and wasn't gonna let her go alone since she saved his kid from a flying monkey.  She reluctantly lets him tag along.

They successfully get inside and Regina knocks down the force field around the castle.  That scene was so freakin' cool looking like it was out of a superhero movie or something.  Then Regina goes all crazy and psycho and was going to do something all stupid but I can't say why because spoilers!

At that point, Nine Inch Nails "Hurt" should have been playing in the background.

Suddenly, the WW appears wearing one of Regina's gowns and gets all catty and then comments that she 'had to take it in some at the hips' implying that Regina is fat.  I was thinking to myself, "Witch, please.  You walk down the street in Miami with your skinny ass wearing that, you wouldn't even garner a first look.  Regina on the other hand, would be causing car crashes and multiple cases of whiplash from the double-takes.  Peeps would be all like, 'Sssssss, ssssssss!!!!  Mami, mami!  Damn, you lookin' GOOD!  OMG Esos tetas y culo!  Tu en fuego!'"  Pffft!  We *all* know who wears it better.  ;P

Then the WW is all like I'm__________.  And I was like this again because this show is getting all incesty like Game of Thrones and I totally didn't see that coming, but it also didn't surprise me *that* much knowing how this show is with that whole EVERYONE-being-related-somehow thing.  Anyway, I kinda think she was lying because she was going on and on about Blood Magic, but had a Flying Monkey retrieve blood from someone to make a potion .  So I'm on the fence about who she claims to be.

After dropping her bombshell, WW conjures her broom and flies off like she had a hot Quiddich match to get to.  So then Regina was like, 'Forget that crazy shit I was planning to do...'

Then at the very end, a character who was supposed to be dead is back and certainly *not* dead, but is now completely bat-shit insane and muttering about 'feed on madness and the madness feeds on you' or something like that.  Awesomeness!

Damn, I freakin' LOVED that episode.  Certainly my favorite of the season so far and definitely in my top 5 for the entire series.  I reeeeally hope they keep up the darker turn for the rest of the season and most certainly the quality.  I heard that this was a Jane Espenson episode.  Can just Jane Espenson write all the OUAT episodes please? I feel like she's the one writer who consistently takes the time to SLOW DOWN and give us some character moments and dialogue rather than just rushing from one plot point to the next.  Seriously, the other writers need to take note.  This is how you write a great episode.  There was all kinds of action as well as moving the plot along and getting to know the characters and their motivations.  So good.  I didn't even have too many CGI issues this time around.  It actually looked really cool for the most part, especially the scene with Regina in her castle breaking the barrier spell.  That looked cool as shit!  Hell, the last two episodes just looked SO much better than the first half of the season, like it's a completely different series.

MOAR PLEASE!!!


***A/N  Pics shamelessly stolen from Lily Sparks' column at tv.com

Cool Song

Okay, here's a pretty cool song that I heard for the first time Sunday night. It's not *that* new, but it is new to me as the only music played where I live is awful Top 40. Seriously, there's like a dozen Top 40 radio channels down here. Thank God for the Sirius. I heard it on the Classic Alternative channel on the Dark Wave program. Since Numan is considered a classic alternative artist, they will play new stuff also. Anyway, I wanted to hear it again so I found it on YouTube. I liked it so much that I listened to it on a loop for about 20 minutes. I thought this song went well with the mood of this new OUAT episode(and the latter half of season 3), but I'm going to do a separate post for OUAT 3.13. If there was a sound track for this past episode, this should've been on it! (And I think Gary Numan looks Evil Regal-esque in that pic. ;P)




And here are the lyrics:

Here In the Black Lyrics by Gary Numan

Here in the black there's a feeling of loss but it's hungry and restless. (And it's)
Looking, desperate for something, and it feels like a child but not screaming or helpless (And it's)
Absent of mercy. It's alive and it feels but not a shred of compassion or love.
It comes like a pouring of evil. It's a stain on the ground, it's a desolate shadow of fear.

It's dark and I'm lost. There's a breath in the wind and the breath is malicious. (And I)
Don't know whether to run, or should I drop to my knees and pretend I'm religeous. (Because)
It's cold and I'm scared and the whispers are a madness that forces a question to God.
Is this real or imagined? Because if I'm asleep, well then I don't need to scream for long.

Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes for me
Here in the black I'm lost

It's here and I'm found. Like a thought in the mind but it's beautifully vicious. (And I)
Can't hide, not sure if I want to. It crawls in the mist like a vision of Judas. (And it's)
So close I can feel it and I'm chilled to the bone, I'm a statue in ice. (But it's)
Unsure if it's enough, so it waits for the Ghost, for the demon assassin of God.

Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes for me
Here in the black I'm lost

And all you see is dark and vague
And all you feel is life unmade
And all your hopes just bleed away
And all you are is lost and fades

Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes
Here in the black it comes for me
Here in the black I'm lost

Crazy Good

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it *has* been awhile since I last posted something interesting, hasn’t it?  And since OUAT is back, what better to post on?  So yeah, that pic up there was a promo pic from ABC.  The fab four up there were doing the rounds in New York last week to the various talk shows and even to Howard Stern.  I must say, this show has some damn good-looking peeps on it, especially the hottest not-so-villainous villains.

One thing about this struck me kinda funny—is ABC trying to tease some of the shippers out there?  ‘Cuz there’s four different ‘ships here:  Swan Queen, Captain Swan, Evil Charming, or Bromance.  Or is that Captain Charming?  I certainly don’t know, nor do I keep up with that silliness.  Oh, here’s one from a stalker outside:

Anyway, I could go into a whole review of this new episode, but that is best left to Lily Spark's column over at TV.com, so go read that; I’m feeling a little too lazy at the moment for reviews.  I would like to say that this show is absolutely bat-shit insane and makes absolutely no sense any more, but I guess that’s part of the charm of it these days.  It’s kinda fun to bitch and moan about it on forums, though, and then have fanfic peeps write what should be happening.

I still can’t get over the fact that they had Emma banging a Flying Monkey for 8 months.  That’s just so crazy.  LOL Also, I know that Rebecca Mader who plays the Wicked Witch is British, but I could have sworn that when they showed her at the end of the episode that she spoke with an Australian accent.  I guess they were trying to be authentic with the Witch being from Oz and all.  ;P

**A/N  First 3 pics shamelessly stolen from Lana P's twitter feed, the last one was stolen from a "stalker" in NY.

I blame that damn onion. Mostly.

This is actually going to be a weird dream post, but first I have to set it up with the QoH nonsense which I'm pretty sure contributed to it.

She wanted to make some koolsla, which means that *I* will be getting roped into making the majority of it. She insists on me making it but is such a micromanager that she just can't help herself from snatching the ingredients away from me to start prepping them herself. Because me, pushing 40...I'm obviously too stupid and incompetent to be able to prep a cabbage, an onion, and a carrot to go into the food processor.

Fine. I let her do it. Less I actually had to do. She on the other hand, being of such superior intelligence and experience, doesn't know how to operate the food processor, so she leaves that to me. /sarc ::rolls eyes::   So she chopped up the cabbage and I fed it through the machine, then she peeled the carrot and I fed that through the machine. Then she went to get an onion, all the time bitching about how all the onions are defective et cetera. Anyway, the one she selected turned out to be one of those super potent ones that will bring the whole room to tears the second it's cut into. So I fed *that* through the machine. Anyway, my job being done as I was only going to operate the food processor, I dismantled it and put the main part of the machine back in its box and the other bits went to the wash. I then retired to my room while QoH mixed up her seasonings.

A while later she called me to come get some of the koolsla. Holy shit! was that onion ever powerful! It was like eating napalm or something. And I made the mistake of taking a big bowl-full. I went back to my bedroom with it and ate some, then put it aside for a while. I ended up eating all of it and then was sorry that I did. I'm not a fan of raw onion to begin with and I knew I was going to pay for it with horrible onion breath.

I brushed my teeth before I went to bed to try to get the damn taste out, but to no avail. It was so bad that even though I went to bed relatively early, I just laid there and couldn't fall asleep because of the overpowering onion flavor that kept rising from my stomach and permeating my mouth. And then I was getting an upset stomach from the napalm eating away down there.

I don't know when I managed to fall asleep, but I *do* remember waking up at 5am with that terrible churning still happening in my stomach. If that wasn't bad enough, to add insult to injury, it seemed like QoH had the A/C set to freezing. I had to get up to put my sweat pants on. I managed to fall back asleep and the last thing I remembered was the tail end of a strange dream just before I woke up for good.

All I can remember is being in a castle and the peeps around me were panicked that someone was coming. Henry Sr. was there and I wanted him to give me my hand-and-a-half sword that was in a long wooden box for some reason. I was thinking 'What the hell are you doing here? You're supposed to be dead." He instead gave me a long curved sword that looked a bit like a scimitar. The handle and hilt on the thing were messed up and I couldn't hold it the right way. Then, suddenly, two nobles on horseback came in riding side by side with at least a dozen soldiers following behind them on foot marching in two columns.

I took the scimitar-looking sword and slashed at the nobleman on the right. I cut his right arm open from his shoulder down to his hand. I was kinda surprised at that as was everyone else. Then suddenly Cora appeared, all pissed off like hell, like she was going to tear me from limb to limb.

I was indignant that she was there and really pissed off that I didn't have my hand-and-a-half sword, just that stupid long unbalanced scimitar thingy with the effed up hilt and grip. Without thinking, I went to summon a hadouken(did the 'holding the globe' thing like in Tai Chi). I was just so pissed off that I felt unarmed because I didn't have *my* sword and instead had this awkward useless sword and that I wasn't going down without a fight. I could feel my energy start to build and then someone was like, "What are you doing?!? You don't have magic!" and I was kinda like, "Wha..." I  realized that, no, I don't have magic but I have this angry energy that is just about to get unleashed and then I woke up.

Dammit! I *really* would have liked to have seen the ending to that one! WTF? It was actualy kinda scary facing Cora. What is one supposed to do against Cora with a wonky sword? She has all kinds of magic. Was I supposed to be Regina in that dream? Cuz I certainly felt like myself. So bizarre. I guess I'm way too into that show. :/