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OUAT- Wow, lot of questions answered this ep. But lets start with the end first, because it makes things make a lot more sense in the ep. So August informs the Charmings (Emma and her parents, that is) that the author is a job, so the author trapped in the book is not necessarily the one who wrote their specific stories. And its weird, because the author's job is to observe and record, but since what they write in the book comes to pass, they also have control. So if their mission is just to witness and write greatness, why the hell were they given the power to manipulate?! In any case, the sorceror and his apprentice trapped the author because that's what he was doing.
So in Enchanted past, Snow and David seek a unicorn to fondle its horn and see visions of Emma's future. David sees an innocent baby, so he's all, "Cool, guess we're good!" MM on the other hand sees teen Emma ripping her heart out and crushing it. Snow tries to be all, "But I'm your mother!" to which Emma replies, "I don't care!" On their way home to figure out what to do next, they bump into a simple peddler on the road. Only, he's played by the one jerk Dharma Initiative guy from Lost, who often plays slimy guys, so you know there was more to him than being a simple peddler.
Anyways, he tells the Charmings that they shouldn't head west, because Maleficent turned into a dragon and laid an egg and has marked out a swath of territory in that area. Instead, they should go east, into the infinite forest, where they'll happen upon a cabin. So they do, and the Apprentice is there all, "I've been expecting you!" They tell him about their visions, he says, well sure, of course they have differing accounts of the future, because everyone's a blank slate with free will, with the potential for good or evil. They're all, how do we ensure the former. He says he has a spell to take out their child's darkness and put it in another vessel.
Conveniently, they just heard about Maleficent laying an egg, so they're all, "eh, her child is prolly going to be dark already, so lets put it in that!" So they go steal the egg, knocking out Ursula and Cruella on the way. As they abscond with it, poor Mal pleads with them to have mercy and not steal her child. Which, while they were doing that, how did they not realize that they were doing something pretty evil. Which, if they thought about it, could they really trust a spell to ensure their child's goodness that required an evil act on they're part? Snow promises to return the egg when they're done.
Anyways, so they take the egg to the Apprentice, who casts his spell. Which also requires banishing it to our world. The Charmings are horrified, because that's not what they intended- they just wanted to make their child good at the expense of making Mal's child doubly dark? But its too late. Ursula and Cruella come to just in time to try and stop them but instead also get sucked into the portal, so we know how they ended up in the real world. With the spell done, the Apprentice is all, "Okay, now its up to you to make sure the child stays in the light!" Which, what the frak was the spell for then? If the spell is supposed to take away the potential for darkness, then honestly, they shouldn't have to do anything! No matter what happens, the child should somehow still come through its experiences light.
After this, the Charmings go home and feel ultra guilty, but then David thinks they can get over it by doubling down on being the heroes people think they are. (Heh, which must've worked a little, since they stopped feeling guilty about what they did to Mal from that point until just a few eps ago)
Back in the forest, the Apprentice happens upon the author, angered at what he made him do. Which, ah, that makes more sense now! I was wondering, why the hell the Apprentice was acting all nice and seeing no issue with casting a spell to remove darkness from one child and put it into another. Shouldn't that point to him to being evil? But if it was due to the Author's manipulations, it make sense. So, the Apprentice traps him in the book.
In the present, Regina is all, she can't go back to Gold and the Queens of Darkness empty handed. Emma conjures a fake page, but Regina knows that won't fool someone as powerful as Gold. So, she just takes a pic of the page, all, the book was under a protection spell, so that's the best she could do. Unfortunately, just from the pic, Gold is able to figure out that the author is trapped behind the door in the book.
So Mal hits the town with a Sleeping Curse, which affects everyone but David, MM, and Henry (and presumably Aurora, but she's nowhere to be seen) who had been put into such a curse before. So Henry runs off with the book, so when team Evil gets to the Charmings apartment, they can't find it. But, they realize Henry ran off with it and Regina says she'll get it from him, with the other Queens accompanying her to ensure she does indeed get the page this time. Meanwhile Gold goes to the shop to creep on sleeping Belle. I wasn't sure if he was trying to apologize for the evil he's doing or what.
Anyways, Henry hides in the mansion and finds a key which he thinks will unlock the Author. But then the Queens show up, and Regina secretly signals Henry to give her the forgery which he does. Unfortunately, when they get to Gold, as suspected he easily spots the forgery. Regina tries to be all, "Oh those good guys, tricking me again!" but Gold's not stupid. He has Mal knock out Regina and take her to her vault.
Apparently Gold will show her something that will ensure her loyalty to their cause forever, but we don't see what he does. Also, Mal had made a deal with Gold to find out the fate of her missing child in exchange for he help with all this. Gold tries to renege at first, saying she didn't help with finding the page, then asks her if this is what she really wants, because the truth can hurt (I guess he knows a little about trying to find a lost child banished to another dimension), and finally acquiesces.
We see a child being given to its adoptive parents, one with a familiar star shaped birth mark, that the father wants to name Lily. So people were right, Lily is Mal's daughter. But heh, she's not Lily, after the flower, its short for Lilith, which is a name that's historically had dark connotations.
Back with the Charmings, they find Henry, who tells them he gave Regina the fake because she signaled him to. He also shows them the key and is quick to want to let out the Author. But, David wants to burn the page to prevent the bad guys from using the Author to win. So they lie to Henry all, "We'll handle this!" MM eventually realizes that they've gone freaking insane with all the lies they've told to everyone over this whole situation. She tells David of about when Regina pulled out her heart and it was tainted with darkness. She thought it was over killing Cora, but maybe the darkness was from stealing Mal's baby.
As Hook told them earlier in the ep, when they broke the news to Emma about Ursula telling him the plan was to turn her dark, darkness isn't sudden, its something that creeps up on you. One bad decision leads to another and another and eventually you've moved from good to evil. So, they decide to finally fess up- being heroic means doing the right thing, not the easy thing.
So Emma finally knows everything, and she's kinda pissed, her faith in her parents shaken. She snaps at them and goes to run away with the page and the key and the dialogue of Snow's vision comes to pass, where Snow is all, "I'm your mother!" and Emma is "I Don't Care!" Eventually Hook finds her and gets her to see August (who's recovering from all the magical transformations he keeps going through) who's woken up but is with her parents. She's still mad at them, but she needs answers. August tells them about the author being a job and the last author abusing the position to manipulate things, only he doesn't know what the last thing that author did was. So they have no idea that he's responsible for pushing the Charmings along that dark path.
They let him out, and the Charmings recognize him as the Peddler they saw on the road, and he drops a curtain rod on all of them and flees.
But yeah, I'm excited for them to find out about Lily and stuff.
Walking Dead- Ah, that season finale went as I expected. Well, at least things played out in Alexandria the way they did in the comics. As I said last time, I totally didn't remember Rick waving around a gun like a lunatic and raving about how he's in charge now and Michonne having to knock his ass out. But reading how that went, senator Douglas doesn't end up kicking him out, then Jessie's husband goes after him with a knife and accidentally ends up killing Douglas' spouse, so Douglas gives Rick the okay to execute him.
Which is mostly how it goes down. Rick's in holding (and Pete has been moved away to another house away from his family at least), and the others go to visit him, wherein Carol acts all innocent, asking Rick how he got a gun. Not to throw him under the bus, but so she's still in the good graces of the others. Eventually, he tries to cook up a plan where they hold the Douglas' hostage to get in control. Which seems like a bad idea, because will people really accept their leadership if they get it in that way? Oh, and Rick reveals to Michonne only Caryl were in on the plan to secretly arm themselves. He didn't want to get Michonne involved because he wasn't sure she'd go along with it and didn't want to put her in that position. She lets him know her loyalty to him is unwavering, he says jump, she'll say how high.
In any case, cooler minds prevail, and they leave it to the town meeting, where the others are character witnesses for Rick and how they shouldn't kick him out. Anyways, unbeknown to them, a few walkers snuck in because Gabriel didn't close the gate properly after taking a constitutional outside the walls (why?! I mean, because he's gone nuts, but still!) So, Rick singlehandedly kills the Walkers and take a corpse to the meeting as proof as to why he needs to be there- they're soft, and naive, and make stupid mistakes like leaving the gate open that will get them killed. He apologizes for being so heavy handed earlier, but he echoes what his group has been saying about him, he wants to protect them, and will do whatever it takes to do so.
Heh and technically it was one of his people who left the gate open. Then again, it was Deanna's son who left Gabriel at the gate and told Gabriel to close it, not knowing Gabriel is unhinged. Well, not that he intentionally left the gate open, but he's having such a crisis of faith that when John From Cincinnati asks Gabriel if he could get his counsel one day about his brother Aiden having died, Gabriel just secretly seethes about it. Like he's all, "Sure, whatever!" Spencer not recognizing the incredibly angry look Gabriel is giving him the whole time.
But then Drunk Pete shows up, having taken Michonne's sword from her mantle, all, Rick's not one of them. He ends up accidentally slitting Deanna's husband's throat with it, but then the others tackle him down and Deanna tells him to kill Pete which he does. And then Rick looks up and see Morgan there staring back at him, possibly horrified, standing with Daryl and Aaron.
And how is Morgan there? Well, the ep starts with Morgan by himself in a camp, when some guy shows up with a gun intending to rob him. The guy has a W carved into his forehead. He talks about the first settlers putting bounties on wolves, and it was confusing as to whether he was saying he and his people are the wolves, or everyone else is a wolf, and his people are collecting the bounties or what. In any case, Morgan easily kicks the ass of the guy and his friend who tried to backstab him and then locks them in a car, honking the horn to call some zombies to keep them occupied and unable to track him.
Meanwhile, Aaron and Daryl are scouting, following some random in a red poncho. While following him, they happen upon an abandoned canning factory, which ends up being an insanely elaborate trap filled with zombies. They manage to take cover in a car, wherein they realize red poncho was bait that they fell for. They get ready to make their big break when Morgan rescues them.
He asks them for help, and Daryl realizes he has the map from the church with Rick's name on it that said, "The world's going to need a Rick Grimes", and so they take him back to Alexandria.
Back at the factory, the guys who tried to rob and kill Morgan earlier are there at the sprung trap with Red Poncho, and they cut his throat for his failure since their quarry escaped from the trap. But, apparently Aaron dropped a bag, and they find pics of Alexandria, so maybe they might head in that direction next season?
Other stuff, Nicholas leads Glenn outside the walls with the intent to kill him. But since he's some weasel faced loser and Glenn's a survivor, Glenn kicks his ass and acts like he's going to execute him, but he shows he's a better man and spares Nicholas' life, helping him back to town.
As I said earlier, Gabriel's slowly becoming unhinged. During his walk outside, he tries to kill himself by getting a Walker to eat him, but at the last minute he chickens out and decapitates it by grabbing it by the rope around its neck and pulling until the head come off, then using a rock to bash its skull in. And then bashing in the skull of the poor hapless victim in the road that zombie was eating.
Meanwhile, Sasha is also going nuts, lying in a mass grave of walkers she killed. She goes to Gabriel for counsel, but he basically tells her to eff off and again says their group is bad and they got what they deserved and generally just pissing her off that she threatens to shoot him with her rifle.
But Maggie shows up, and talks her down, and even though Maggie knew Gabriel tried to get them kicked out, she takes his hand when he tells her she should have let Sasha kill him, and they end up all praying together.
OUAT- Wow, lot of questions answered this ep. But lets start with the end first, because it makes things make a lot more sense in the ep. So August informs the Charmings (Emma and her parents, that is) that the author is a job, so the author trapped in the book is not necessarily the one who wrote their specific stories. And its weird, because the author's job is to observe and record, but since what they write in the book comes to pass, they also have control. So if their mission is just to witness and write greatness, why the hell were they given the power to manipulate?! In any case, the sorceror and his apprentice trapped the author because that's what he was doing.
So in Enchanted past, Snow and David seek a unicorn to fondle its horn and see visions of Emma's future. David sees an innocent baby, so he's all, "Cool, guess we're good!" MM on the other hand sees teen Emma ripping her heart out and crushing it. Snow tries to be all, "But I'm your mother!" to which Emma replies, "I don't care!" On their way home to figure out what to do next, they bump into a simple peddler on the road. Only, he's played by the one jerk Dharma Initiative guy from Lost, who often plays slimy guys, so you know there was more to him than being a simple peddler.
Anyways, he tells the Charmings that they shouldn't head west, because Maleficent turned into a dragon and laid an egg and has marked out a swath of territory in that area. Instead, they should go east, into the infinite forest, where they'll happen upon a cabin. So they do, and the Apprentice is there all, "I've been expecting you!" They tell him about their visions, he says, well sure, of course they have differing accounts of the future, because everyone's a blank slate with free will, with the potential for good or evil. They're all, how do we ensure the former. He says he has a spell to take out their child's darkness and put it in another vessel.
Conveniently, they just heard about Maleficent laying an egg, so they're all, "eh, her child is prolly going to be dark already, so lets put it in that!" So they go steal the egg, knocking out Ursula and Cruella on the way. As they abscond with it, poor Mal pleads with them to have mercy and not steal her child. Which, while they were doing that, how did they not realize that they were doing something pretty evil. Which, if they thought about it, could they really trust a spell to ensure their child's goodness that required an evil act on they're part? Snow promises to return the egg when they're done.
Anyways, so they take the egg to the Apprentice, who casts his spell. Which also requires banishing it to our world. The Charmings are horrified, because that's not what they intended- they just wanted to make their child good at the expense of making Mal's child doubly dark? But its too late. Ursula and Cruella come to just in time to try and stop them but instead also get sucked into the portal, so we know how they ended up in the real world. With the spell done, the Apprentice is all, "Okay, now its up to you to make sure the child stays in the light!" Which, what the frak was the spell for then? If the spell is supposed to take away the potential for darkness, then honestly, they shouldn't have to do anything! No matter what happens, the child should somehow still come through its experiences light.
After this, the Charmings go home and feel ultra guilty, but then David thinks they can get over it by doubling down on being the heroes people think they are. (Heh, which must've worked a little, since they stopped feeling guilty about what they did to Mal from that point until just a few eps ago)
Back in the forest, the Apprentice happens upon the author, angered at what he made him do. Which, ah, that makes more sense now! I was wondering, why the hell the Apprentice was acting all nice and seeing no issue with casting a spell to remove darkness from one child and put it into another. Shouldn't that point to him to being evil? But if it was due to the Author's manipulations, it make sense. So, the Apprentice traps him in the book.
In the present, Regina is all, she can't go back to Gold and the Queens of Darkness empty handed. Emma conjures a fake page, but Regina knows that won't fool someone as powerful as Gold. So, she just takes a pic of the page, all, the book was under a protection spell, so that's the best she could do. Unfortunately, just from the pic, Gold is able to figure out that the author is trapped behind the door in the book.
So Mal hits the town with a Sleeping Curse, which affects everyone but David, MM, and Henry (and presumably Aurora, but she's nowhere to be seen) who had been put into such a curse before. So Henry runs off with the book, so when team Evil gets to the Charmings apartment, they can't find it. But, they realize Henry ran off with it and Regina says she'll get it from him, with the other Queens accompanying her to ensure she does indeed get the page this time. Meanwhile Gold goes to the shop to creep on sleeping Belle. I wasn't sure if he was trying to apologize for the evil he's doing or what.
Anyways, Henry hides in the mansion and finds a key which he thinks will unlock the Author. But then the Queens show up, and Regina secretly signals Henry to give her the forgery which he does. Unfortunately, when they get to Gold, as suspected he easily spots the forgery. Regina tries to be all, "Oh those good guys, tricking me again!" but Gold's not stupid. He has Mal knock out Regina and take her to her vault.
Apparently Gold will show her something that will ensure her loyalty to their cause forever, but we don't see what he does. Also, Mal had made a deal with Gold to find out the fate of her missing child in exchange for he help with all this. Gold tries to renege at first, saying she didn't help with finding the page, then asks her if this is what she really wants, because the truth can hurt (I guess he knows a little about trying to find a lost child banished to another dimension), and finally acquiesces.
We see a child being given to its adoptive parents, one with a familiar star shaped birth mark, that the father wants to name Lily. So people were right, Lily is Mal's daughter. But heh, she's not Lily, after the flower, its short for Lilith, which is a name that's historically had dark connotations.
Back with the Charmings, they find Henry, who tells them he gave Regina the fake because she signaled him to. He also shows them the key and is quick to want to let out the Author. But, David wants to burn the page to prevent the bad guys from using the Author to win. So they lie to Henry all, "We'll handle this!" MM eventually realizes that they've gone freaking insane with all the lies they've told to everyone over this whole situation. She tells David of about when Regina pulled out her heart and it was tainted with darkness. She thought it was over killing Cora, but maybe the darkness was from stealing Mal's baby.
As Hook told them earlier in the ep, when they broke the news to Emma about Ursula telling him the plan was to turn her dark, darkness isn't sudden, its something that creeps up on you. One bad decision leads to another and another and eventually you've moved from good to evil. So, they decide to finally fess up- being heroic means doing the right thing, not the easy thing.
So Emma finally knows everything, and she's kinda pissed, her faith in her parents shaken. She snaps at them and goes to run away with the page and the key and the dialogue of Snow's vision comes to pass, where Snow is all, "I'm your mother!" and Emma is "I Don't Care!" Eventually Hook finds her and gets her to see August (who's recovering from all the magical transformations he keeps going through) who's woken up but is with her parents. She's still mad at them, but she needs answers. August tells them about the author being a job and the last author abusing the position to manipulate things, only he doesn't know what the last thing that author did was. So they have no idea that he's responsible for pushing the Charmings along that dark path.
They let him out, and the Charmings recognize him as the Peddler they saw on the road, and he drops a curtain rod on all of them and flees.
But yeah, I'm excited for them to find out about Lily and stuff.
Walking Dead- Ah, that season finale went as I expected. Well, at least things played out in Alexandria the way they did in the comics. As I said last time, I totally didn't remember Rick waving around a gun like a lunatic and raving about how he's in charge now and Michonne having to knock his ass out. But reading how that went, senator Douglas doesn't end up kicking him out, then Jessie's husband goes after him with a knife and accidentally ends up killing Douglas' spouse, so Douglas gives Rick the okay to execute him.
Which is mostly how it goes down. Rick's in holding (and Pete has been moved away to another house away from his family at least), and the others go to visit him, wherein Carol acts all innocent, asking Rick how he got a gun. Not to throw him under the bus, but so she's still in the good graces of the others. Eventually, he tries to cook up a plan where they hold the Douglas' hostage to get in control. Which seems like a bad idea, because will people really accept their leadership if they get it in that way? Oh, and Rick reveals to Michonne only Caryl were in on the plan to secretly arm themselves. He didn't want to get Michonne involved because he wasn't sure she'd go along with it and didn't want to put her in that position. She lets him know her loyalty to him is unwavering, he says jump, she'll say how high.
In any case, cooler minds prevail, and they leave it to the town meeting, where the others are character witnesses for Rick and how they shouldn't kick him out. Anyways, unbeknown to them, a few walkers snuck in because Gabriel didn't close the gate properly after taking a constitutional outside the walls (why?! I mean, because he's gone nuts, but still!) So, Rick singlehandedly kills the Walkers and take a corpse to the meeting as proof as to why he needs to be there- they're soft, and naive, and make stupid mistakes like leaving the gate open that will get them killed. He apologizes for being so heavy handed earlier, but he echoes what his group has been saying about him, he wants to protect them, and will do whatever it takes to do so.
Heh and technically it was one of his people who left the gate open. Then again, it was Deanna's son who left Gabriel at the gate and told Gabriel to close it, not knowing Gabriel is unhinged. Well, not that he intentionally left the gate open, but he's having such a crisis of faith that when John From Cincinnati asks Gabriel if he could get his counsel one day about his brother Aiden having died, Gabriel just secretly seethes about it. Like he's all, "Sure, whatever!" Spencer not recognizing the incredibly angry look Gabriel is giving him the whole time.
But then Drunk Pete shows up, having taken Michonne's sword from her mantle, all, Rick's not one of them. He ends up accidentally slitting Deanna's husband's throat with it, but then the others tackle him down and Deanna tells him to kill Pete which he does. And then Rick looks up and see Morgan there staring back at him, possibly horrified, standing with Daryl and Aaron.
And how is Morgan there? Well, the ep starts with Morgan by himself in a camp, when some guy shows up with a gun intending to rob him. The guy has a W carved into his forehead. He talks about the first settlers putting bounties on wolves, and it was confusing as to whether he was saying he and his people are the wolves, or everyone else is a wolf, and his people are collecting the bounties or what. In any case, Morgan easily kicks the ass of the guy and his friend who tried to backstab him and then locks them in a car, honking the horn to call some zombies to keep them occupied and unable to track him.
Meanwhile, Aaron and Daryl are scouting, following some random in a red poncho. While following him, they happen upon an abandoned canning factory, which ends up being an insanely elaborate trap filled with zombies. They manage to take cover in a car, wherein they realize red poncho was bait that they fell for. They get ready to make their big break when Morgan rescues them.
He asks them for help, and Daryl realizes he has the map from the church with Rick's name on it that said, "The world's going to need a Rick Grimes", and so they take him back to Alexandria.
Back at the factory, the guys who tried to rob and kill Morgan earlier are there at the sprung trap with Red Poncho, and they cut his throat for his failure since their quarry escaped from the trap. But, apparently Aaron dropped a bag, and they find pics of Alexandria, so maybe they might head in that direction next season?
Other stuff, Nicholas leads Glenn outside the walls with the intent to kill him. But since he's some weasel faced loser and Glenn's a survivor, Glenn kicks his ass and acts like he's going to execute him, but he shows he's a better man and spares Nicholas' life, helping him back to town.
As I said earlier, Gabriel's slowly becoming unhinged. During his walk outside, he tries to kill himself by getting a Walker to eat him, but at the last minute he chickens out and decapitates it by grabbing it by the rope around its neck and pulling until the head come off, then using a rock to bash its skull in. And then bashing in the skull of the poor hapless victim in the road that zombie was eating.
Meanwhile, Sasha is also going nuts, lying in a mass grave of walkers she killed. She goes to Gabriel for counsel, but he basically tells her to eff off and again says their group is bad and they got what they deserved and generally just pissing her off that she threatens to shoot him with her rifle.
But Maggie shows up, and talks her down, and even though Maggie knew Gabriel tried to get them kicked out, she takes his hand when he tells her she should have let Sasha kill him, and they end up all praying together.
