Once Upon A Time appreciation week 2024

Day 5 (11/14) - Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week 2024!

Day 5: Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation: Cruella De Vil/101 Dalmatians

There’s so many great parallels on this show, it was hard to choose. I do have to give some love to the show’s take on Cruella and 101 Dalmatians, they did a fantastic job. Victoria Smurfit nailed it!

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week 2024 - Day 5: Best (Not Just Disney) Parallel/Adaptation

OUAT Week Day 5: Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week

Day 5: Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation

Ella did meet her Prince (Henry is technically a prince) at the ball (after stealing his motorcycle), and they got to live happily ever after - until her step family made things complicated and now they're in Seattle.

So they gotta break the curse. Or I should say their daughter has to find a way to break the curse with her grandparents.

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week

Day 5: Best Disney Parallel/Adaptation

It's the name. And the arc. She went from a lost girl, the unwanted foundling, to the one who broke the curse. And time and again, fought for her family and town. She now has people by her side.

Plus, she even has the swan characteristics in a way- swans have the reputation of being rather prickly but fiercely protective of their loved ones. And that does describe Emma.

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week

Day 5: Best Disney Parallel/ Adaptation

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First up is Rumpelstiltskin and Belle moving to a place where they can just live in peace. And considering everything Belle went through, I'm happy that she got to raise her family and read books until she died peacefully of old age.

And hey, cool, Rumpelstiltskin got to do that with her.

So the parallel is the story that after sharing a life together, the widower is off on a quest in honor of the person they loved the most. Carl decided to fly his and Ellie's house to Paradise Falls, while Rumpelstiltskin went to look for a way to end his curse and join Belle in the afterlife.

The two characters also looks after another person - Carl became a protector of Russell and Rumpelstiltskin cared for Alice.

And in the end, they got what they wanted and needed- Carl did get the house to Paradise Falls, right where Ellie planned all those years ago, and he went to have new adventures with Russell and Doug.

And Rumpelstiltskin got to end his curse and save the day as it turns out.

They even have antagonists that are the worst aspects of themselves.

OUAT APPRECIATION WEEK 2024

DAY 5- BEST DISNEY PARALLEL:

THE SLEEPING CURSE.

OUAT Week 2024 Day 4: Favorite Plot Twist -> Baelfire is revealed to be Emma's ex and Henry's father

It certainly was a twist to not only learn that Rumple's son was in New York but that he had dated Emma and was Henry's father. In the end, everyone was related it seemed, but this was fresh and surprising in Season 2.

Favorite plot twist:

This is my favorite plot twist...

Yes, Jefferson is a plot twist all on his own, and you know the biggest plot twist of all about Jeffers?

That Marvel stole him away from OUAT. LOL.

They could have done so much with the interaction between Jefferson and the Golds... but then - that's what fan fiction is for, right?

OUAT Appreciation Week

Day 3 and 4

Yesterday I had a horrible headache and couldn't do screens. Sorry. Here's both answers... and you know... if you haven't figured out by now that this is going to be heavily centric on the Golds... Well... I don't know what to tell ya.

I've got two favorite origin stories, actually... And yeah.. even the one that /isn't'/ the Golds /is/ the Golds... in a few round about ways.

So yeah, these two are the origin stories I love the most. Rumple and the Rogers (Killian Jones, from the wish realm). First of all, how can you not love the painful yet lovely arc that is Rumple's whole story. And second to that, the fleshing out of Rogers as a character without Emma, as someone searching for something that isn't romance with a woman... How he changed over his existence... All of that. Yeah.

I guess you can say I'm a sucker for fathers trying to be the best they can be. Giving their all for their kids. Who knows if that's why I like these the best, but there's that.

Here's a fic of them for you. Kinda shoddy, but a fic all the same.

And my favorite Plot Twist?

Yeah. All about the Golds.

Now, to be fair, there have been some awesome plot twists... I've even tried to get a few of my own into upcoming parts of the continued saga of Storybrooke, when Gideon returns...

So how about a spoiler for that one too? But let's make it interactive, shall we?

How do you think these two:

BOTH end up connecting to branches of the Gold family tree?

And before you ask, yes, they each do it in their own way, Grace isn't carried in by Jefferson and plopped down through genetic connection alone.

Once Upon A Time Appreciation Week 2024!

Day 4: Favorite Plot Twist: Belle is actually alive!

In Skin Deep, Regina tells Rumplestiltskin she died but she really captured her. At the end of the episode we see Belle in a cell in the hospital basement. She’s freed by Jefferson in the season finale and reunites with Rumplestiltskin.

Once Upon A Time appreciation week 2024

Day 4 (11/13) - Favorite Plot Twist

OUAT Week Day 4: Favorite Plot Twist

The first season of OUAT tells us that Regina adopted Henry and raised him for ten years without ever having any idea that his biological mother was Snow White's daughter, the woman prophesied to bring about her downfall.

The third season of OUAT reveals that this isn't entirely true.

In 3.09 "Save Henry," we learn that Regina found out the identity of Henry's birth mother shortly after taking him home. Frightened by the tangible connection to Emma Swan and Snow White living in her house, she tried to take him back to the adoption agency, but in the end she couldn't leave him there. She chose Henry, knowing he was related to her greatest enemies, knowing his presence in her life would no doubt ensure his birth mother's eventual arrival and her own subsequent downfall. What's more, she then chose to forget that she knew this -- thus leaving herself even more vulnerable to Emma Swan -- so that she could, as she said, "put her own troubles aside and put her child first."

By this point in the show, of course, we know that Regina loves Henry; even if some of the audience weren't convinced by her declaration that she does in the pilot, she's proven it time and again throughout Seasons 1, 2, and 3. But it's not until "Save Henry" that we understand just how much she had already given up for him before Emma even came to Storybrooke. Even as a villain who had not yet begun to redeem herself, Regina still chose Henry over the curse and her revenge, ten years before the series began. Regina herself may not remember the events of this episode's flashbacks, but they change the audience's perspective on her character and her relationship with Henry for good, and confirm for us with absolute certainty that no matter what, she will always put Henry first.

OUAT Week 2024 Day 1 - Favorite Character

I'm a bit late but the inspiration struck when I had written it off as impossible. Regina's story spoke to me at the time with her rage, hurt and defiance and even now that we've both moved on I still see a lot of myself in her. I'm glad she found a happy ending and her family, and I'll always hold her in my heart as the complex, interesting character that she is.