Once Upon a Time REACTION - S01E02 - The Thing You Love Most

I love this episode so much!!! Thank you very much for another great reaction! I really love both the past storyline with the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest, as well as in Storybrooke. My favorite scenes being between the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin in his prison when she asks about the curse and it's revealed that she must crush the heart of the thing you love most. And between Regina and Mr. Gold in the very end by Regina's apple tree. The actors who play them... Lana Parrilla and Robert Carlyle, play off of one another very well. They're both brilliant and their characters are so powerful and scary. I also really love the friction and battle of whits between the Mayor and Emma too. Lana Parrilla and Jennifer Morrison also play off of one another very well. I think it was hilarious that Emma cut down one of the branches from her apple tree, because Emma sensed the Mayor's threat towards her in the beginning when she came to give Emma a basket of apples. Next... I really loved the scene between the Evil Queen and her father just before she kills him by ripping out his heart with her bare hands. It's so dark and yet so sad too because you really seen the pain her doing so causes her. It does take a lot of talent to cry on screen and so many of the actors in the show have the ability to do so well. Lana is no exception, as she cries in silence just as she's about to kill her father, and it's tragic. I also really loved that we find out the Henry is named after her father. And I also agree with you that it probably would have been more of a punch in the gut for us as the viewers, had Henry Sr.'s name not been revealed until it was shown on his tombstone. But I still loved learning he was her father earlier on too. I also really enjoyed this show's portrayal of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty too. She is really dark and creepy, and I love that her castle is in the Forbidden Fortress. As for her having blonde hair... she's rarely seen with any hair at all in any story of Sleeping Beauty because she usually wears the black cowl with horns which covers up her hair. The only time outside of Once Upon a Time in which we see her with dark hair like you stated is in the movie Maleficent with Angelina Jolie, when she wears her hair down. But I like this vision of her in Once Upon a Time. It helps to set this version of Maleficent apart from the rest. And lastly... I really loved the moments between Emma and Mary Margaret. How Mary Margaret helps Emma by bailing her out of jail, tells Emma that she feels like she knows Emma and that she trusts her, and encourages her to stay in town to take care of Henry. There are some really beautiful moments between them in this episode. Thank you so much again. I really enjoyed your reaction for it and I'm so happy you're continuing to love this show. That end scene between Gold and Regina gets everyone so intrigued to watch more. I can't wait for your reaction for the next episode!!! Snow Falls is one of my favorite episodes from this season, so I'm so excited! Until then...

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum