Dr. Whale is tasked with mending Hook’s wounds and performing surgery on the stranger whose car crashed upon entering Storybrooke.Download Video Once Upon a Time In The Name Of The Brother 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.But some of the townspeople fear that the stranger may have seen magic -- which could expose their true identities to the world -- and think that leaving him to die would be the best solution. Meanwhile, as Mr. Gold tries to reunite with a despondent Belle, Cora attempts to reunite with daughter Regina; and in the land that was, Victor desperately wants to prove to his disapproving father that he can, indeed, bring back the dead.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.
Love is back at the centre of the story here, and when it works it really works, but when it doesn’t it really doesn’t. Snow kissing Charming with all the dwarves creepily watching does not work. Regina’s sappy nonsensical monologue about killing her mum because love is weakness does not work. Emma stopping Cora from taking her heart with the magical power of love definitely does not work.
On the other hand, there’s some real depth to some of these relationships if you can look past the cheesy one-liners and the wonky logic. It turns out that the root of a lot of Cora’s psychosis is that she wants Regina to need her. That’s love twisted into something selfish.
This nicely parallels Regina’s relationship with Henry. She is prepared to prevent Emma from returning home because she wants Henry to need her. In a fabulous ending, Regina’s unselfishness comes back to bite her when Henry goes off to dinner with Emma and friends, leaving Regina alone. It’s moments like that, when the show acknowledges that love is hard, that shine far more brightly than the Snow and Charming happily-ever-after stuff.
Speaking of which, am I the only one who thinks Aurora and Mulan should forget about Philip and get their own happily ever after on? There’s some serious chemistry there.
On the flip side, we’ve got some great evil-doer action in this episode. Cora as the Queen of Hearts was a perfect choice. Hook is super pissed at Emma for ditching him in the giant’s castle, and his piratey charm all but disappears as he confronts her for her betrayal. Rumple, who seemed to be leaning marginally toward the good side lately, goes into full-frontal bad guy mode with a scheme that could potentially kill Snow and Emma (where’s Belle during all this?).
Once Upon a Time already shows much potential with a great pilot episode. It really got to the point without giving everything away. It basically tells the background information behind the story seen in the shows fictional town of Storybrooke. It does this in just the right way so that the viewer won't get confused or bored from just hearing the talk of fairy-tales from the side of a little boy.
It's simply about Emma Swan and the destiny she's unaware of. Before she was born a prophecy was foretold that an evil curse would befall all of the inhabitants a fairy-tale kingdom sending them to a world where they no longer remember who they are or the happiness they once knew. In the prophecy it is foretold that Emma would be the one to return and save them from the dreaded curse.
Now while there are many other characters in the story it is meant to revolve around Emma and the issues she must face in order to overcome the curse. The story shows much promise already and with no doubt it is sure to progress as the show continues. Morrison (Emma), Goodwin (Snow White), and Parrilla (Evil Queen) have already hit all of the right notes in just the first episode, Parrilla I loved mainly because she makes a very worthy villain in the show.