Once Upon a Time REACTION - S02E10 - The Cricket Game

Another fabulous reaction!! Thank you very much! Well... I love the moments with Hook and Cora throughout this episode, despite Hook's role in this episode being fairly small in comparison to others. However, my favorite moment in this episode was in the beginning with David and Mary Margaret when they're still in bed together in the afternoon the morning after she and Emma returned home from the Enchanted Forest. I love how Emma is embarrassed and Henry's confused upon walking in on them, and that her parents joked about how happy they were that they could still traumatize their daughter so many years later. So cute!! The Charming family is beautiful and they're perfect!!! I loved that the whole town threw a party to welcome Emma and Mary Margaret home and loved David's toast... to not having to look for his family for awhile. I also loved that Emma invited Regina for Henry's sake. Her and Regina definitely have a lot of issues still to work out, but this was a first good step. Sadly, tragedy struck fast. Next... Cora does make for a great villain. It's so terrible that she's capable of framing her own daughter for murder, all so she can break Regina's spirit and to destroy all the good she's accomplished with just a little trickery. When I first saw this episode, I was so angry when I thought that she killed Archie, because like I've said before... Archie is one of my favorite characters outside of the minor characters. I was so, so happy to see that he was still alive in the end. But it was so sad to see him get hurt and to see everyone's reactions to his death, especially Emma's and Henry's. And Regina's too. Archie never broke Regina's confidence. All he wanted was to help her by helping the others to see the good in her she was fighting to bring back out. Archie believes in Regina and because of this, Cora saw it as a cruel opportunity to teach her daughter a lesson, believing that she can later swoop in to pick up the pieces to help her daughter again. As for everyone being so quick to believe Regina really did all this... Cora really did do the perfect frame job. And with Regina's past, it would be incredibly difficult for anyone to believe in her. Except that Emma did to a point. Because while hers and Regina's pasts are hardly the same, Emma still saw some of Regina in herself. And I love that. Sadly, even Gold's solution to have Emma look into Pongo's memories didn't work, because Pongo only ever saw Regina enter. However, he did sense something wasn't right with Regina when Cora walked into Archie's office. Pongo sensed she was an impostor, which is why he barked. Unfortunately, that didn't come through in his memories. I also love that Emma has begun to develop her magic, as Gold encourages her to do so. It's great, and it show a slight parallel with him beginning to teach Regina her own magic too. I also love the backstory with Snow and David capturing Regina and putting her on trial, bringing in another parallel to the present day storyline with the Charmings questioning Regina, and attempting to arrest her despite her having magic in the present time. I loved how Snow fought to spare Regina's life because Regina had once saved her life, and in so doing, Snow then saved Regina's life by sparing it. I also really love how Rumplestiltskin manipulated everything to force Regina into having to cast the curse, by making it so that Regina wouldn't be able to kill Snow and Charming so long as they were in their world. This made it so Regina would cast the curse and brings us to the moment right up until Regina traveled to their castle on the day of Snow's and Charming's wedding. Once again bringing it full circle to the beginning. Beautiful!! If there is really anything negative about this episode, it's that there wasn't enough of Hook in it. :) And that says a lot. Overall... I really enjoy this episode a lot and it's a great beginning to the second half of the season. Thank you very much again, for another great reaction. I can't wait for your next episode reaction. It's going to be so good!!! :) Until next time...

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum