I can understand Swan/Queen. There's plenty of subtext. It's always going to be slash but there's a relationship there that I can understand the fun in shipping.
They're also developing a slashy subtext with Prince Charming/Capt. Hook {I kind of think they stumbled into that one, but have now noticed it and give it the occasional nudge.)
Charming/Snow White is the show's official unquestioned OTP.
...but Hook/Swan is looking hopeful, and they've been trying to start up Queen/Outlaw(Robin Hood... Poor Maid Marion died it after the birth of her son)
As to what is going on... *snort*
I've just been reading spoilers for the season finale and someone posting that even after reading the spoilers they have no idea what the heck is going on! The spoiler pictures all look AU. No one has any clue what they mean.
The first part of the season was a rif on Peter Pan (turned out Peter Pan literally had Peter Pan syndrome. *heh* He was Rumplestilskin's Dad who discovered that he could acquire not-quite-eternal youth by sacrificing kid-Rumple (i.e. abandoned kid-Rumple). But even Pan's time was running out (It's been several hundred years) so to retain his youth, he'd have to kill his 12 year old grandson Henry to keep it going.
The show is so incestuous that everyone is related. So when Henry was stolen by Pan, heroes (Snow White, Prince Charming, Emma) and villains (Rumple, Hook, Regina/The Evil Queen) all worked together to rescue the boy (virtually everyone has connections to Henry). The only way to kill Pan was for Rumple to sacrifice himself and to thwart Pan's plan the Queen/Regina had to reverse the curse that had created Storybrooke, Maine in the first place.
The curse reverse would send everyone 'back from where they came'. The problem being that 12 year old Henry was born in this world, not the Fairytale one. He would be left behind. Regina/Queen found a loophole where Emma Swan (Henry's biological mother) could stay behind with Henry, but she and Henry would forget all about their fairytale connections, requiring that their memories be re-written.
Flashfoward 1 year (it was a flash-cut midseason cliffhanger): Capt. Hook arrives at door Emma and Henry's NYC apartment saying that Emma's parents (Snow White and Prince Charming!) are in grave danger and only she can save them. Then he attempts a 'true love' kiss to see whether it would restore her memories (It didn't). She slammed the door in the face of the crazy man.
But, Hook persisted and convinced her to drink a potion that would restore her real memories (Dodgy? Yes. Still don't know where he got that potion...) It worked, but Hook didn't have enough potion to restore Henry's memories.
Emma returned to Storybrooke, which has been re-cursed, so it's back but no one knows how. They can't remember. No one remembers what happened in the missing year (but they know that time actually passed because Snow White is now ginormously pregnant [because so is the actress], but the writers assure everyone that the baby is 100% Prince Charming's so it's not going to turn 'ew').
And now it's turned out that it's some sort of rif on The Wizard of Oz, that the villain behind the new cursing is the Wicked Witch of the West, who claims that she's Regina/Evil Queen's sister (that Regina never knew about). And they've begun parallels that Rumple = The Scarecrow, Prince Charming = Lion... the other's are still unidentified with guesses being Emma = Dorothy, Snow, Hook, or Regina(?!) being the Tin Man, Henry being Toto...? At this point it's totally unclear.
But the Wicked Witch is the new Big Bad with everyone -- 'heroes' and 'villains' -- again teaming together to vanquish her (especially now that Wicked has killed Rumple's son/Henry's father).
So Emma, Charming, Hook, Queen Regina, Belle, and Robin Hood have been working together. Rumple has been unwillingly enslaved to the Wicked Witch (and is rather broken by the death of his son). And Snow White's unborn baby has become Wicked's new obsession (we don't know why).
...And Henry is still clueless that everyone around him is the AU identity of a fairytale character.
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Date: 2014-04-04 02:45 pm (UTC)They're also developing a slashy subtext with Prince Charming/Capt. Hook {I kind of think they stumbled into that one, but have now noticed it and give it the occasional nudge.)
Charming/Snow White is the show's official unquestioned OTP.
...but Hook/Swan is looking hopeful, and they've been trying to start up Queen/Outlaw(Robin Hood... Poor Maid Marion died it after the birth of her son)
As to what is going on... *snort*
I've just been reading spoilers for the season finale and someone posting that even after reading the spoilers they have no idea what the heck is going on! The spoiler pictures all look AU. No one has any clue what they mean.
The first part of the season was a rif on Peter Pan (turned out Peter Pan literally had Peter Pan syndrome. *heh* He was Rumplestilskin's Dad who discovered that he could acquire not-quite-eternal youth by sacrificing kid-Rumple (i.e. abandoned kid-Rumple). But even Pan's time was running out (It's been several hundred years) so to retain his youth, he'd have to kill his 12 year old grandson Henry to keep it going.
The show is so incestuous that everyone is related. So when Henry was stolen by Pan, heroes (Snow White, Prince Charming, Emma) and villains (Rumple, Hook, Regina/The Evil Queen) all worked together to rescue the boy (virtually everyone has connections to Henry). The only way to kill Pan was for Rumple to sacrifice himself and to thwart Pan's plan the Queen/Regina had to reverse the curse that had created Storybrooke, Maine in the first place.
The curse reverse would send everyone 'back from where they came'. The problem being that 12 year old Henry was born in this world, not the Fairytale one. He would be left behind. Regina/Queen found a loophole where Emma Swan (Henry's biological mother) could stay behind with Henry, but she and Henry would forget all about their fairytale connections, requiring that their memories be re-written.
Flashfoward 1 year (it was a flash-cut midseason cliffhanger): Capt. Hook arrives at door Emma and Henry's NYC apartment saying that Emma's parents (Snow White and Prince Charming!) are in grave danger and only she can save them. Then he attempts a 'true love' kiss to see whether it would restore her memories (It didn't). She slammed the door in the face of the crazy man.
But, Hook persisted and convinced her to drink a potion that would restore her real memories (Dodgy? Yes. Still don't know where he got that potion...) It worked, but Hook didn't have enough potion to restore Henry's memories.
Emma returned to Storybrooke, which has been re-cursed, so it's back but no one knows how. They can't remember. No one remembers what happened in the missing year (but they know that time actually passed because Snow White is now ginormously pregnant [because so is the actress], but the writers assure everyone that the baby is 100% Prince Charming's so it's not going to turn 'ew').
And now it's turned out that it's some sort of rif on The Wizard of Oz, that the villain behind the new cursing is the Wicked Witch of the West, who claims that she's Regina/Evil Queen's sister (that Regina never knew about). And they've begun parallels that Rumple = The Scarecrow, Prince Charming = Lion... the other's are still unidentified with guesses being Emma = Dorothy, Snow, Hook, or Regina(?!) being the Tin Man, Henry being Toto...? At this point it's totally unclear.
But the Wicked Witch is the new Big Bad with everyone -- 'heroes' and 'villains' -- again teaming together to vanquish her (especially now that Wicked has killed Rumple's son/Henry's father).
So Emma, Charming, Hook, Queen Regina, Belle, and Robin Hood have been working together. Rumple has been unwillingly enslaved to the Wicked Witch (and is rather broken by the death of his son). And Snow White's unborn baby has become Wicked's new obsession (we don't know why).
...And Henry is still clueless that everyone around him is the AU identity of a fairytale character.