Once Upon a Time - 2x3 "Lady of the Lake" Full Reaction

Hello again! I love this episode too, in spite of certain parts of it being a tad bit ridiculous. It's like you said... this show is based on fairytales, so while it strives to also make their main storylines as realistic as they can within the Storybrooke storyline and even in the Enchanted Forest storyline to a smaller degree, they also must have a magical quality to them as well. Since magic after all, is a very major component throughout this show. And this episode... Just a beautiful and wholesome story it was from start to finish. First... I love seeing David's and Henry's moments all throughout, especially in the end when David tells Henry he understands he won't be able to find and save Snow and Emma without his help, just before he begins to teach him how to swordfight. They're so cute! :) Then... I really enjoy the overall backstory between David, Snow, and Ruth... David's mother. So beautiful and yet so sad. I love Ruth a lot too and I cried when I watched this episode, both the first time and again just now as I re-watched it with you. Her love for her son is just so beautiful and I love how she was willing to give her life to ensure that Snow could have a child. Without Ruth, Emma never would have been born and I just love to see how this comes about. In regards to your confusion about True Love's Kiss and how it's magic can break any curse... I can most certainly understand your confusion, and there are sometimes when I feel confused too. However, there are different circumstances at times when True Love's Kiss can't breach through the magic that has cursed someone. If you remember back to season one's episode, What Happened to Frederick?... Kathryn told Charming she had tried to give him True Love's Kiss to free him from the gold imprisoning him as a gold statue, but it didn't work because the gold was in the way. The water from the same lake shown in this episode... Lake Nostos, was the only way to restore Frederick's life and break the gold curse in that episode too. As for what might prevent True Love's Kiss from breaking Snow's curse now... I honestly can't think of anything, but given that their kiss when they married wasn't what broke King George's curse, but Lancelot slipping the water into their wedding chalice... there must be a circumstance that True Love's Kiss couldn't do so. I hope this helps. Now... both Cora and King George are definitely snakes. They are both great villains, even though I hate them because they're so evil. Cora plays a villain really well and she is definitely evil, more so than even Regina is. I don't like her as a character for the most part because her evil is of a different caliber than Regina's evil is and she's darker and more twisted and Regina is. As a villain... she's dark, which is good for for any villain, but I just don't like her overall. And now for Emma and Henry acting as they do... you ought to understand that Emma especially, and Henry too, are acting on instincts that come from our world. And our world... while they now know of other worlds and magic existing, our world is the only world Emma and Henry knows. Especially Emma, who has grown up in a harsh world and has had to live on her own. So, yes... her actions in the Enchanted Forest may seem silly, but she's fighting the way she's fought her whole life. The only way she knows. Also... I love seeing Jefferson reunited with his daughter at last, and having Henry there to convince him to find her. The moments with Jefferson were brief, but quite sweet as well. As for my favorite moment throughout this episode... I absolutely love the moment in the end between Emma and Snow when Emma breaks down upon understanding just how much her mother sacrificed for her and why Snow had to give her up. It was such a beautiful moment in the show where their relationship begins to grow significantly. Mary Margaret's emotional breakdown as she looks back at what she could have had with her daughter, had Regina not cast her curse... so sad and so beautiful. I also like Lancelot in this episode too. He isn't like most other actors who have played Lancelot from other shows and movies, but he's still a good character. He was a good friend to both Snow and Charming and it was sweet that he married them for Ruth’s sake before she died. And lastly... I also love that Lancelot understood what Ruth wanted and slipped the last of the water from Lake Nostos into Snow’s chalice so she could drink it. And then Snow finds out she’s going to have a daughter with Ruth’s necklace. Thank you again, for another great episode reaction! Overall... this was a beautiful episode, especially because of the backstory for Snow and Charming. :) I can't wait for your reaction for the next episode!!! It's one of my absolute favorite episodes from season two, as well as overall throughout the entire series!! Until then...

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum