While Regina continues to try and stop using her magic in an attempt to win back Henry’s affections, she begins seeing what she believes is a ghost from her past; and when Mary Margaret and Emma discover a lone survivor from an ogre massacre, Emma begins to question whether or not he’s telling the truth.Download Video Once Upon a Time The Doctor Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Once Upon a Time Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Regina finds herself failing at learning the dark arts from a dark master because something from her past is preventing her from using her magic for evil.From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis comes a bold new imagining of the world, where fairy tales and the modern-day are about to collide. And they all lived happily ever after - or so everyone was led to believe. Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She's a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who's been on her own ever since she was abandoned as a baby.
But when the son she gave up years ago finds her, everything starts to change. Henry is now 10 years old and in desperate need of Emma's help. He believes that Emma actually comes from an alternate world and is Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter. According to his book of fairytales, they sent her away to protect her from the Evil Queen's curse, which trapped the fairytale world forever, frozen in time, and brought them into our modern world.
Of course Emma doesn't believe a word, but when she brings Henry back to Storybrooke, she finds herself drawn to this unusual boy and his strange New England town. Concerned for Henry, she decides to stay for a while, but she soon suspects that Storybrooke is more than it seems.
It's a place where magic has been forgotten, but is still powerfully close... where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don't remember who they once were. Emma will have to accept her destiny and fight for everything that once was.
Accompanying them is Prince Philip (Julian Morris), one of the few Disney princes to be granted a first name back in Walt’s day. It’s he who slays the wraith when it bursts into the fairy tale world and he who is subsequently marked for death. This is unfortunate, since not much energy is put into fleshing his character out more – but this is also Once Upon A Time, written by the creators of Lost, so he may live on in flashbacks as the season progresses.
The Mulan/Aurora pairing is slightly drab and two-dimensional until the final moments of the episode. The soulless, lifeless, Philip is laying on his bier, mourned by the two women who love him when Mulan decides Aurora deserves the medallion containing Philip’s soul, along with a few other tidbits she and the late prince neglected to pass along.
While Aurora believes she has been asleep for a less than a year, in fact it has been twenty-eight years. Mulan explains the curse Regina (Lana Parrilla) cast has affected all the land save their small corner of it. No one is sure why this is, but they are aware that they’ve spent the last twenty-eight years in stasis and have only recently been freed. The land that did survive, however, is rife with danger and Mulan urges Aurora to come with her to their last remaining safe haven.
Per the precedent set during the first season, every Once Upon A Time episode has a “fairy tale” plot and one set in the modern world. This season’s opener begins in world so modern it feels like a different show. That is, of course, until the phone drops, the music stops, and a carrier pigeon delivers a postcard from Storybrooke bearing one word, “Broken.”
Great cast and a very promising pilot. It captures the essence of a classic fairy tale and incorporates it with a modern setting where the real and the imaginary merges.
To be sure, it does not have a dark atmosphere and if you're looking for one, this is not the show. But I think there are a lot of dark and gory shows out there, so this one looks fresh and deserves a try by anyone who likes fairy tales and fantasy.
The cast is great. It is clear that there is much effort in that section. I believe I watched Ginnifer Goodwin for the first time and I knew that Jennifer Morrison was in the show, so when I see Goodwin I though she was Morrison. This might be due to my ignorance about the actress, but given the story, the resemblance makes some sense. I don't know whether this is intentional though.
But when the son she gave up years ago finds her, everything starts to change. Henry is now 10 years old and in desperate need of Emma's help. He believes that Emma actually comes from an alternate world and is Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter. According to his book of fairytales, they sent her away to protect her from the Evil Queen's curse, which trapped the fairytale world forever, frozen in time, and brought them into our modern world.
Of course Emma doesn't believe a word, but when she brings Henry back to Storybrooke, she finds herself drawn to this unusual boy and his strange New England town. Concerned for Henry, she decides to stay for a while, but she soon suspects that Storybrooke is more than it seems.
It's a place where magic has been forgotten, but is still powerfully close... where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don't remember who they once were. Emma will have to accept her destiny and fight for everything that once was.
Accompanying them is Prince Philip (Julian Morris), one of the few Disney princes to be granted a first name back in Walt’s day. It’s he who slays the wraith when it bursts into the fairy tale world and he who is subsequently marked for death. This is unfortunate, since not much energy is put into fleshing his character out more – but this is also Once Upon A Time, written by the creators of Lost, so he may live on in flashbacks as the season progresses.
The Mulan/Aurora pairing is slightly drab and two-dimensional until the final moments of the episode. The soulless, lifeless, Philip is laying on his bier, mourned by the two women who love him when Mulan decides Aurora deserves the medallion containing Philip’s soul, along with a few other tidbits she and the late prince neglected to pass along.
While Aurora believes she has been asleep for a less than a year, in fact it has been twenty-eight years. Mulan explains the curse Regina (Lana Parrilla) cast has affected all the land save their small corner of it. No one is sure why this is, but they are aware that they’ve spent the last twenty-eight years in stasis and have only recently been freed. The land that did survive, however, is rife with danger and Mulan urges Aurora to come with her to their last remaining safe haven.
Per the precedent set during the first season, every Once Upon A Time episode has a “fairy tale” plot and one set in the modern world. This season’s opener begins in world so modern it feels like a different show. That is, of course, until the phone drops, the music stops, and a carrier pigeon delivers a postcard from Storybrooke bearing one word, “Broken.”
Great cast and a very promising pilot. It captures the essence of a classic fairy tale and incorporates it with a modern setting where the real and the imaginary merges.
To be sure, it does not have a dark atmosphere and if you're looking for one, this is not the show. But I think there are a lot of dark and gory shows out there, so this one looks fresh and deserves a try by anyone who likes fairy tales and fantasy.
The cast is great. It is clear that there is much effort in that section. I believe I watched Ginnifer Goodwin for the first time and I knew that Jennifer Morrison was in the show, so when I see Goodwin I though she was Morrison. This might be due to my ignorance about the actress, but given the story, the resemblance makes some sense. I don't know whether this is intentional though.