Regina is accused of murdering one of the town's most beloved fairytale characters but only Emma senses that she may be innocent.Download Video Once Upon a Time The Cricket Game 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, back in the Fairytale Land that was, after capturing the Evil Queen, Snow White and Prince Charming set about planning her public execution in order to rid the land of her murderous tyranny.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 the missing daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. 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.
One new element in this episode is Emma’s struggle with the idea that she is a pawn to Rumple. In the end he says that she did everything herself because she is a product of true love, but that argument isn’t particularly convincing. Doesn’t that just mean she’s a pawn to true love?
And how the heck could Rumple know that in twenty-eight years Emma was going to get transported to the Enchanted Forest and trapped in his cell with Snow who would happen to know how to use his magic stalker note to open the bars? Something’s fishy there, and it’s not the squid ink.
This episode wraps things up so nicely that it could be a season finale instead of a mid-season one, up until the very last minute when we see Cora and Hook approaching Storybrooke on a ship. With that and strong suggestions from the preview that Regina will make a grand return to evilness in the future, there’s plenty of conflict to go around. Plus, it sounds like we’ll finally find out what happened to Bae!
The show has a promising premise , but that's about it. There's plenty of miscasts, overacting, and bad scripts to be found. After a few episodes, certain characters like the mayor and Emma really gets on your nerves with their grating personalities.
Everyone seems to spend too much time arguing and plotting soap opera style. I wish the plot has better pacing and more depth. Poor Robert Carlyle, he deserves so much better. It's like seeing Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West. I wonder how big of a budget this show has?
The scenery, costumes, and special effects all seem to be on the cheap side. It just makes the fantasy elements of the series feel underwhelming.
He believes that Emma actually comes from an alternate world and is the missing daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. 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.
One new element in this episode is Emma’s struggle with the idea that she is a pawn to Rumple. In the end he says that she did everything herself because she is a product of true love, but that argument isn’t particularly convincing. Doesn’t that just mean she’s a pawn to true love?
And how the heck could Rumple know that in twenty-eight years Emma was going to get transported to the Enchanted Forest and trapped in his cell with Snow who would happen to know how to use his magic stalker note to open the bars? Something’s fishy there, and it’s not the squid ink.
This episode wraps things up so nicely that it could be a season finale instead of a mid-season one, up until the very last minute when we see Cora and Hook approaching Storybrooke on a ship. With that and strong suggestions from the preview that Regina will make a grand return to evilness in the future, there’s plenty of conflict to go around. Plus, it sounds like we’ll finally find out what happened to Bae!
The show has a promising premise , but that's about it. There's plenty of miscasts, overacting, and bad scripts to be found. After a few episodes, certain characters like the mayor and Emma really gets on your nerves with their grating personalities.
Everyone seems to spend too much time arguing and plotting soap opera style. I wish the plot has better pacing and more depth. Poor Robert Carlyle, he deserves so much better. It's like seeing Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West. I wonder how big of a budget this show has?
The scenery, costumes, and special effects all seem to be on the cheap side. It just makes the fantasy elements of the series feel underwhelming.