Luffy Reacts - Once Upon a Time S1E14 - Dreamy

Okay... so much to say and you certainly brought up some interesting points in your comments towards this episode. But first and foremost... thank you so much for another reaction for Once Upon a Time, and like always, I truly had a lot of fun watching this episode again with you as you watch it for the first time. Dreamy isn't one of my favorite episodes throughout season one, but I still really enjoy it nonetheless. It has its charm and it also has a strong nostalgic draw to the classic Disney movies in regards to how fast Dreamy and Nova come to fall in love with each other. Yes... it was certainly extremely fast for them to have fallen in love with one another, but then again, their characters were also both naive and they don't understand the ways of the world. Dreamy only knew his brothers and worked constantly in the mines, and Nova only really knew her sisters... the fairies. She had seen the world from a distance while flying over it and watching the fireflies come out at nights over Firefly Hill, but she never interacted with the people because she wasn't yet a Fairy Godmother like she dreamed to one day become. So I can understand why it was so easy and quick for them to fall in love with one another. Because they helped each other to understand they could be more than they were and because they were different from the few others they knew. And I also feel that their love has a little to do with Nova spilling some of her fairy dust onto Dreamy's egg and him having dreamt of her before he was hatched. Now... before I forget my thoughts in regards to the brief scene in the tavern between Dreamy and Belle within the past storyline... This scene takes place after the past storyline events in Skin Deep, and just after Rumple frees Belle from being his prisoner again and tells her to leave him and never to come back, before the Evil Queen later comes to him at his castle to inform Rumple that Belle was dead because she had supposedly committed suicide after throwing herself off the tower of her own palace. And in the fairytale world... it isn't so uncommon or strange for a woman, who wasn't a wench, to walk into a tavern for a drink like it was during the days of the old west. In this sense, the fairytale world world is just like our modern world today. It isn't strange to see a woman walk into a bar for a drink too. In the past storyline for this episode, after the struggles Belle went through with Rumple and then him having kicked her out... Belle needed a place to go to try to think about what she was to do next. And as far as her father knew, she was still Rumplestiltskin's prisoner. Belle longed for adventure and most likely wasn't sure she wanted to go home again after being released or not. As for the past storyline as a whole.... I really do think it's adorable. I love both Dreamy/Grumpy and Nova. I've seen the actress who plays Nova (Amy Acker) in a number of shows including my second favorite show of all time just behind Once Upon a Time, and I just love her. The dwarfs being hatched from eggs is strange and at first, I wasn't really sure what to think of this, but it's definitely something different in regards to past dwarf lore from any books, movies, etc... And I absolutely respect the show's creators and writers for their creativity... for this idea and so many others too. Like I said above... I really enjoy Dreamy's and Nova's love story and it's heartbreaking to see how their love story doesn't work out. Seeing them meet up on Firefly Hill after Belle helps Dreamy to understand why he feels as he does is because he's in love... it's beautiful and adorable. But back to my thoughts in regards to the heartbreak... it's so sad and while Dreamy should have spoken to Nova about everything Blue and his boss from the mines spoke to him about, he really did want what was best for her and sadly, he was naive enough to trust Blue that what was best for her was for her to remain a fairy. But Dreamy knew that Nova would never accept this and so he broke her heart so that she would leave him. However, this brings us back to why we next see him within the past storyline, as a prisoner inside one of King George's dungeons shown in the past storyline of the previous episode, 715 AM. Grumpy tells Snow White while they're prisoners that he had gone to try to find his lost love to win her back, until he got into trouble. And seeing this scene upon Dreamy breaking Nova's heart and walking away from her, it's clear he later regrets having done so and did try to go after her so he could explain himself and apologize to Nova for doing so... until he's set up and takes the fall, then is thrown in prison, making it too late for him to find Nova again. And we can assume that maybe Nova never returned to the human world again and remained in the sky, until the Evil Queen's curse brought her, the fairies, and everyone together again in Storybrooke. Now... I absolutely love Dreamy becoming Grumpy and how it took for him to take up a new ax for his name to change. I love that Dreamy had become so heartbroken and lost all will to dream again, and to believe that he could never be anything more than a dwarf who worked only in the mines forever, that he no longer had the will to dream. And therefore... his name became as was his biggest personality trait. The most dominate personality that made him who he was. Yes... each dwarf was given their names based on their most dominant personality trait, as the magical axes they wielded sensed it within them. Their axes are wielded with magic and are known to be the only tools known that can cut through a diamond. Now onto the main Storybrooke storyline... First, I also really like the moments throughout the episode between Leroy and Astrid, as well as between Leroy and Mary Margaret. And while I thought that it was strange how Leroy's changed his mind to help Mary Margaret so he could impress Astrid, who in her cursed persona was a nun, I really liked that it was later revealed by Leroy to Mary Margaret, that all he did for her wasn't because he believed anything more than friendship could come between them, but because he simply wanted the chance to have that one moment with her. The moment where he could be a hero in someone's eyes for a change and to be more than just the town drunk that everyone else always saw him as. And Leroy didn't just have that moment with Astrid, but with Mary Margaret too. I can absolutely understand that need for him to want to have that moment. I love how Leroy solved his problem by cutting the power to the electricity so that the townsfolk would be forced to buy candles from them. I also love how Mary Margaret assumed he stepped onto that roof to commit suicide. and it was cute how he answered her. Smart plan, and Leroy succeeded in selling all candles for Astrid. I myself long to have that same moment in my life too. I'm a loner and I'm uncomfortable around most people, especially all those I don't know, or know well. And those who know me, know this about me and I've lost out on getting together and having fun with friends during my high school days, because my friends always hung out in big groups of people and rarely invited me out to join them, because they knew this about me. And it really hurt then. It still hurts now. So I can most certainly understand wanting to have a special moment like Leroy longed for with someone. As for the scene between Leroy and Mr. Gold down at the docks... I really enjoyed this scene as well. And in regards to Gold's dislike for the nuns... Because Gold knows who he really is and who everyone else really are, his real dislike is for the fairies and that dislike and anger towards the fairies have carried over into their world now. And yes... all of the fairies are the nuns like we've seen for both Astrid and Blue, who is known as Mother Superior in Storybrooke. As for why Gold accepting the nuns as his tenants if he's always hated the fairies so much... he didn't originally have any choice in the matter when they automatically became his tenants in the curse when it first carried them all over into Storybrooke. And for twenty-eight years, Gold was just as cursed as everyone else, so he didn't know why or understand why he had such a disliking for the nuns, nor could he initially remember having a choice to refuse to take them in as tenants. I hope this makes sense to you. Please let me know if it doesn't and I can try to explain it better. Oh... and yes, Nova and Astrid are quite beautiful names. I really love them. I also really feel badly for Mary Margaret throughout this episode because everyone treats her so horribly and shuns her, calling her the town harlot and a tramp. However, I really love the very brief moment when Granny at last shows her a bit of kindness in the end as she takes Mary Margaret's candle from her to light it, then smiles at her and tenderly pats her back to show the healing has begun. And lastly... of course Regina has done something to doctor Kathryn's phone records somehow in order to make it appear like David is to blame for her disappearance. However, there's of course more to Regina's deception and it's most certainly not good. There's so much more to come. But I was certainly nervous upon seeing Emma come up to David in the end and then seeing her lead him to her car as though she's arresting him, as Mary Margaret sees this happen from a distance. I really liked how this moment was done in the show and was very intrigued by what was to come. I don't know what you will continue to think, but it's going to be interesting to find out. Overall... I really do enjoy Dreamy very much for what it is. I like Emma's investigation into Kathryn's disappearance, I enjoy the love story for what it was, I love Nova/Astrid and Dreamy's development into becoming Grumpy, and was worried upon seeing the possibility that David could be in trouble for Kathryn's disappearance. I love Prince Charming and can't see him as possibly anything less the good man we know him to truly be. And like you, Emma absolutely knows he isn't lying and that he's innocent. Thank you so much again for another fun episode reaction! I had a great time watching it again with you. I can't wait for your reaction for the next episode!!! Until then... As for my top four favorite characters who have been introduced so far... It's very difficult for me to say. But if I have to say, mine are Emma, Rumple/Gold, David/Charming, and Mary Margaret/Snow. Regina is very close behind and I absolutely love Grumpy too. He's awesome. :)

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum