by Julia Lawson
It all started with an apple. To rid her kingdom of Snow White, the Queen turned to her fruit bowl for a solution. However, is there any significance behind her choice of colour? Why choose Red Delicious over Granny Smith and Pink Lady?
The answer highlights the differences between the Wicked Witch and the Evil Queen – two sisters who cannot agree to disagree on their taste in apples. This week’s episode is very juicy…
It all started with an apple. To rid her kingdom of Snow White, the Queen turned to her fruit bowl for a solution. However, is there any significance behind her choice of colour? Why choose Red Delicious over Granny Smith and Pink Lady?
The answer highlights the differences between the Wicked Witch and the Evil Queen – two sisters who cannot agree to disagree on their taste in apples. This week’s episode is very juicy…
The contrast in two apple baskets supports the chasm separating the two famous villains of old: one strives and works hard, the other takes no risks; their mother was disappointed in one, but gave the other away. Their swapping of snide remarks continues until the it is revealed that Zelina’s (Rebecca Mader) visit was a distraction.
In the forest, Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) is forced by the power of the Dark One’s dagger to retrieve the heart of Regina (Lana Parrilla) from Robin Hood (Sean Maguire) and his merry men. Though they make a brief stand of defiance, the ‘wrong place, wrong time’ rule of working with children and animals comes into play. Robin’s young son, Roland (Rapheal Alejandro), ends up right in the path of Robin’s arrow.
This could quite possibly be the tensest moment of Once Upon a Time history – never before have we been this close to a child death scene (Henry vs. Pan in the first half of season three doesn’t count, no offence Jared Gilmore…) Luckily, the arrow froze before hitting him and he skipped off (after some obligatory sobbing from the trauma) to count sticks with Friar Tuck. Or snack. Life back to normal.
In the forest, Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) is forced by the power of the Dark One’s dagger to retrieve the heart of Regina (Lana Parrilla) from Robin Hood (Sean Maguire) and his merry men. Though they make a brief stand of defiance, the ‘wrong place, wrong time’ rule of working with children and animals comes into play. Robin’s young son, Roland (Rapheal Alejandro), ends up right in the path of Robin’s arrow.
This could quite possibly be the tensest moment of Once Upon a Time history – never before have we been this close to a child death scene (Henry vs. Pan in the first half of season three doesn’t count, no offence Jared Gilmore…) Luckily, the arrow froze before hitting him and he skipped off (after some obligatory sobbing from the trauma) to count sticks with Friar Tuck. Or snack. Life back to normal.
After his Dark One duties for the day were over and done with, Rumple made a bid for the dagger by seducing Zelina, which was surprisingly easy. Unfortunately for him the dagger was spelled so she was alerted to his plan and ordered him back to his cage – this situation is increasingly fifty shades of green… What must Belle (Emilie de Ravin) be thinking?
In order to establish what the Wicked Witch is planning Regina decides to summon Cora (young Cora played by Rose McGowan) to determine why she abandoned her first born. To do this she needs the murder weapon, the two-way candle, and the murderer, Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin). After a séance, where the group each have a cup of deadly poisonous tea, Snow and Regina discover a ghoulish Cora spinning. A ghoulish Cora who is swift to possess Snow, sharing her past while presumably trying to take control of her body or rip her to pieces – the woman wasn’t exactly a ball of fun when she was alive now was she.
Zelina’s father, a gardener, tricked Cora into bed through illusions of royalty. Fate appeared to be on her side when Prince Leopold (Richard Schiff - Snow White’s father) showed her sympathy and swiftly proposed but unfortunately for this plan, he was due to wed Princess Eva (Eva Bourne). After overhearing the gardener’s blackmailing ploy against Cora’s ‘virtue’, Eva set up a trap of sorts to reveal Cora as a thief.
In order to establish what the Wicked Witch is planning Regina decides to summon Cora (young Cora played by Rose McGowan) to determine why she abandoned her first born. To do this she needs the murder weapon, the two-way candle, and the murderer, Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin). After a séance, where the group each have a cup of deadly poisonous tea, Snow and Regina discover a ghoulish Cora spinning. A ghoulish Cora who is swift to possess Snow, sharing her past while presumably trying to take control of her body or rip her to pieces – the woman wasn’t exactly a ball of fun when she was alive now was she.
Zelina’s father, a gardener, tricked Cora into bed through illusions of royalty. Fate appeared to be on her side when Prince Leopold (Richard Schiff - Snow White’s father) showed her sympathy and swiftly proposed but unfortunately for this plan, he was due to wed Princess Eva (Eva Bourne). After overhearing the gardener’s blackmailing ploy against Cora’s ‘virtue’, Eva set up a trap of sorts to reveal Cora as a thief.
Losing her position of royal safety, and to give herself the best chance of returning to it one day, Cora gave up the baby leading Zelina to conclude that the best chance for taking what was hers – power, control, family – was through time-travel and her own curse ‘reset’. Kill Princess Eva so Cora’s betrayal would never be confronted, which in theory would set off a domino effect of heroes that were never born, never saved the day etc.
To cast the spell she needs courage, a heart, a brain, and a baby. Will we get the cowardly lion, tin man and scarecrow that we have considered since the Wicked Witch was introduced? Will Mary Margaret’s baby be Dorothy? All rumours flying around OUAT camps…
But some good news was that finally Regina looks set to find happiness with Robin Hood. And they can have a little family of ‘R’ names together in the wood. Take that Wicked Witch!
To cast the spell she needs courage, a heart, a brain, and a baby. Will we get the cowardly lion, tin man and scarecrow that we have considered since the Wicked Witch was introduced? Will Mary Margaret’s baby be Dorothy? All rumours flying around OUAT camps…
But some good news was that finally Regina looks set to find happiness with Robin Hood. And they can have a little family of ‘R’ names together in the wood. Take that Wicked Witch!
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