Marvel’s Inhumans Presents Its Royal Family in Latest Promo
How does Medusa’s hair suddenly look so… good?
There is no denying there are a lot of mixed feeling out there about the upcoming Marvel’s Inhumans. Some people hate it already, others are sceptical but willing to give the show a chance, and some others already love it.
Well, we will only have to wait a couple of weeks to find out what the show will actually be like. Meanwhile, Marvel has presented a promo featuring the royal family and main characters.
In it, we couldn’t help but notice Medusa’s hair looks quite different from what we’ve seen before. Is this the definite look we’re going to see on the TV show? Or is this simply a new and improved wig that was only used to film the promo?
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REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 108
Once Upon A Time in Wonderland returns with episode 8, “Home”, and with the winter finale upon us, everyone wants to be the first to find Cyrus.
In flashbacks we saw Alice and Cyrus and learned a few things more about these two. I never get tired of seeing Alice kicking ass, and especially everyone’s face when they find out she can fight, and so it was very amusing watching that first scene. What wasn’t so amusing was seeing her injured. Luckily it was nothing Mrs. Rabbit couldn’t fix, but the Rabbit is right to point out that she may not be this lucky next time. One thing is true however: even though Alice didn’t choose to fall in love with Cyrus, she chose the life she was having, she chose to be with him, and she knew the consequences of that decision. And she would rather die a premature death on Cyrus’ arms than live years and years apart from him. And that is exactly what true love is all about. But even considering all this, it is obviously still nice having a place to call Home, somewhere to go to when things get tough and, with the help of the Caterpillar, Cyrus was able to build it.
And it is to their Home that Alice believed Cyrus was going to. But before getting there, she wanted to make a stop at the Rabbit’s place so that he would help them escape from Wonderland. Unfortunately, the Rabbit isn’t very keen on helping them, since the Red Queen kidnaped his family. With Will’s help (he knows Anastasia better than anyone) they manage to find them, and these 3 head to the Outlands.
Meanwhile, Jafar enlists the help of one of the Queen’s Tweedles to get Cyrus’s bottle. With this, all he needs is for Alice to make her last wish, and he will have everything he ever wanted. But he soon realized that the Queen was much smarter than he thought, and the bottle he was given was fake. So he gets mad as he had never gotten before and destroys the Queen’s castle after taking one of her hairs. The Queen’s castle was definitely a very beautiful and original castle, definitely one fitted to a beautiful queen such as Anastasia.
At the same time, after learning that Cyrus was caught in one of her traps, Anastasia goes to get him. They make a stop to go get the real bottle and, after convincing Cyrus to tell her where he was going to, they also make way to the Outlands. Obviously Anastasia never trusted Jafar, but when he got the fake bottle was probably the moment she realized Jafar didn’t need her for the spell, and that she was simply the means to an end.
Alice was the first getting there and after she couldn’t find Cyrus she started making all sorts of other plans to search for him again. It was a bit weird that she didn’t think that the reason why Cyrus wasn’t there was simply because he hadn’t arrived yet. But it was still nice seeing that Alice didn’t lose hope that she would find him, I think she simply thought they wouldn’t reunite that day, but she was wrong. After 8 episodes apart, Cyrus and Alice were reunited at last, and it was just as beautiful as we had imagined. But the sweet nothings soon came to an end when Alice saw who Cyrus’ travel companion was.
It is finally in this scene that we realized what Anastasia was trying to get: she wanted to travel back in time and stop herself from accepting the King’s offer to become queen, so that she would continue living with Will. She probably thought she didn’t have many chances of getting him back in present day, so a trip to the past was her only option. Anastasia begged everyone to leave Wonderland immediately but anyone trusted her at first, and I definitely don’t blame them after everything she put them through.
Wanting to get rid of the Red Queen, Jafar performs a spell to kill her. Anastasia is able to dodge it, but the lightning strikes Will. Because of the first wish Alice made, they both find themselves dying, and Alice doesn’t want to make a wish because that will take Cyrus back to the bottle and Jafar will have what he wanted from the beginning. But what she didn’t remember was that she had promised Will a wish, and so he wished to “end Alice’s suffering”. As wishes go, this was kind of a smart one, since I don’t think anyone can take back wishes, and so, for Alice to stop suffering, Will would have to stop too. But what no one remembered was that physical suffering isn’t the only kind of pain, and thanks to Will, Cyrus is no longer a genie. But wishes come with a price, and Will payed his by taking Cyrus’ place in the bottle.
This was certainly an amazing episode, and that twist in the end was an incredible one that I definitely did not see coming. I am giving this episode a 9.0/10.
I will be back soon with my review of episode 9 entitled “Nothing to Fear”, where we will find out who Will’s first master will be.
Once Upon a Time Episode 7.05 Title Revealed
Adam Horowitz took to social media once again to announce the title of episode 7.05 of Once Upon a Time.
This time, the screenwriter chose Instagram instead of the usual Tweet, to share that episode 7.05 will be called “Greenbacks.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX08kjSBoj4/
So far, here’s the list of episodes for Once Upon a Time season 7.
Once Upon a Time – 7.01: “Hyperion Heights.”
Once Upon a Time – 7.02: “A Pirate’s Life.”
Once Upon a Time – 7.03: “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
Once Upon a Time – 7.04: “Beauty.”
Once Upon a Time – 7.05: “Greenbacks.”
Once Upon A Time returns Friday, October 6 on ABC.
Marvel’s Inhumans Releases New Featurette
Everyone has mixed feelings about the upcoming Marvel series, Inhumans.
Obviously, we can’t truly judge the show until it airs next month on ABC, but so far, the odds are not in the Inhumans’ favor. The trailers haven’t gotten the best reactions from the public and the early reviews for the show are not very promising either.
But there’s one thing we can’t deny: they are not giving up.
ABC released a new featurette with some BTS shots as well as interviews with executive producer Scott Buck, director of episodes 1 and 2 Roel Reiné and head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb, who seems to compare this show with the MCU.
We have lots of opinions about this trailer, but we’ll let you be the judge:
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Watch David Being the Sweetest in this Once Upon a Time Deleted Scene
In order to promote their Blu-Ray and DVD releases, ABC’s Once Upon a Time has unveiled a brand new deleted scene.
The scene features David (Josh Dallas) and a sleeping Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) as her Prince Charming reveals why he doesn’t use his wish to wake her up.
According to TV Line, when the scene aired, Dallas originally said it was because of the consequences such wish might bring on his lover. However, in this scene, we get to go deeper into David’s decision.
The Blu-Ray and DVD will be available August 15, and will include more deleted scenes as well as BTS clips, featurettes and interviews.
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REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 107
Once Upon A Time in Wonderland is back with episode 7, “Bad Blood”, which made all blood ties between characters become a burden.
In flashbacks leading to maybe a few weeks before what was seen in 104, we meet Jafar’s parents. There is nothing particularly interesting about the mother, but the father is a totally different story: Jafar’s father is the Sultan, making him a bastard to the throne. Jafar goes to the palace hoping to be welcomed with open arms, but his father says he is lucky enough to become a servant. We also saw a scene in which Jafar called the Sultan father (or almost did) in the middle of a business reunion. This scene didn’t seem very realistic, because it can’t be easy calling someone we have never seen before “Father”, and it’s not like they were very close to each other. But I’ll let this one slide. But the Sultan is definitely not as OK with this as I am, and he did not let it slide, in fact he drowned Jafar for it (of course Jafar didn’t actually die, or we wouldn’t be here).
Flashback stories like this is one of the reasons I love Once Upon A Time. The writers develop both heroes and villains the same way. If heroes had a moment in their lives that made them a hero, then villains should have one too. And that makes us understand what drives them to do whatever it is they are trying to do. In this case, Jafar is trying to break the laws of magic, so that he can make his father love him. Of course this is totally a very desperate attempt for love. “What good is love and respect if it has to be stolen?”. This is something Jafar’s father says, and it couldn’t make more sense, but it looks to Jafar that he ran out of options, and force some love into his father is the only chance he has to be loved.
But Jafar’s father wasn’t the only one who popped up in this episode, Alice’s father, Edwin, did too. Jafar kidnapped him and pretended he was him so that he could tell Alice all those things she wanted to hear, but it didn’t take long for Alice to find out the truth. The only disappointment in all this is how Alice and Will made it obvious they knew what was happening. Alice actually gave a good excuse to leave with Will, but talking to each other and occasionally look at a man who has something to hide is definitely not the way to go.
But Jafar was still not done, and so he went to get Alice’s real father and we were able to see a beautiful scene between this father and daughter. Edwin said he blamed Alice for his wife’s death, that he shouldn’t have needed proof to believe his own daughter and finishes by telling Alice that Cyrus escaped. Finally Edwin served a purpose other than always being the one doubting, and embraced his daughter, her belief and her love. I said before that it would have been very hard for anyone to believe what Alice used to say, but of course that Edwin could have been a little bit more understanding and flexible than sending his daughter almost immediately to an asylum.
Tired of listening to all this sentimentalism, Jafar threw Edwin from the cliff in which he was over, and this forced Alice to make her second wish: she wished her father back home. Two down, one to go. But don’t forget that wishes come with a price and, although her father did in fact return home safely, he thinks all the impossible things he saw were nothing but a dream.
It was just a pity that we didn’t get to see much of Will and Anastasia, but this was still a great episode. Of course that for some characters to shine, others have to be sidelined, since there is no time in one episode for everything. But that is exactly why there are still some episodes to go through, and I am giving this one an 8.1/10.
With 6 more episodes before the story comes to an end, things are definitely starting to get more and more intense, and episode 108, “Home”, was the winter finale, thus I promise that there will totally be a few twists and turns. So don’t forget to stick around.
Take a Step Into Once Upon a Time Season 7 With These New Stills + Regina’s New Name
According to Entertainment Weekly, Regina will not be the same person we’ve seen in season 7.
She’s now going to be called Roni, and will have a brand-new personality due to a new curse to hit our favorite transplanted Storybrooke residents.
Lana Parilla revealed she won’t be wearing pantsuits anymore, “I’m in denim and rock T-shirts. When we meet her, this other version of Regina, she’s working in a bar. She’s a bar owner. She’s a little rough around the edges… This version feels really different. She’s no longer in charge. We’ve always seen Regina in charge, and then she redeemed herself, but this Regina is something else. I’m having a blast playing her. We’re all still discovering who she is. It’s refreshing, it’s different.”
Colin O’Donoghue also had some things to reveal about Hook, saying: “when we meet Hook at the start of the season, he is a uniform cop in Seattle. He’s different from any of the other 10 different Hooks that I’ve played. I describe that there’s a sense of loss there in the guy and he just doesn’t know what it is that’s missing. He’s striving in some way to find who he is still, yet the Hook that we meet is trying to be the best uniform cop that he can be and do the right thing, but as is the case on Once Upon a Time, it’s more complicated than that.”
But don’t worry, we won’t be left forever wondering what happened with Emma, the show is expected to reveal what happened with the two in Episode 2.
The show has also unveiled 13 new stills of the upcoming season, which feature a reunion between Henry and Regina as well as Henry and Hook hanging out. Take a look:
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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Might Premiere Mid-November
On early Sunday, ABC Chief Channing Dungey was asked about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s premiere date, and the answer surprised many fans who thought the show wasn’t coming back until January 2018.
“It’s going to come on right after Inhumans, as soon as the eight episodes of Inhumans is done, then S.H.I.E.L.D. will begin,” Dungery said during the Television Critics Association press tour.
Now, Inhumans is set to show its first two episodes on IMAX theatres on September 1, and later premiere on ABC on September 29, which means the season could end on November 10 if there are no breaks. Therefore, the fifth season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. could very well premiere as early as November 17.
However, according to Comic Book Movie, it’s more likely that ABC will actually stick to that January 2018 date, so the show can run uninterruptedly.
Check Out the New Character Posters for Marvel’s Inhumans
Marvel’s Inhumans has certainly not have the best luck so far. The first trailer disappointed a lot of people, Medusa’s powers disappointed a lot of people, Anson Mount as Black Bolt disappointed a lot of people, and the first reviews for the series are not favourable… at all.
However, they’re not giving up. The show was filmed, a lot of money was spent on it, and it’s happening this fall.
Now, nine character posters have been released. The posters feature Black Bolt, Medusa, (Serinda Swan), Maximus (Iwan Rheon), Gorgon, (Eme Ikwuakor), Crystal (Isabelle Cornish), Triton (Mike Moh), Auran (Sonya Balmores), Karnak (Ken Leung), and Louise (Ellen Woglom).
Take a look:
REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 106
The story of Alice’s struggle for love in this new world continues with episode 106 of Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, “Who’s Alice”.
Flashbacks in this episode showed us where Alice went after she lost Cyrus and before she joined Bethlem Royal Hospital (fun fact: this is based on a real asylum in London, the oldest in the world). Alice went home where she found her father’s new family: his new wife, Sarah, and his new daughter, Millie. Of course that her father continues not believing Alice but, let’s be fair, who would? He could obviously try a lot harder to understand what his daughter went through, but his new wife definitely doesn’t help by forcing Alice to meet someone else. It was never to expect that Sarah would try to understand Alice’s situation, that is more Edwin’s job, but it would have definitely been nice to see him stand up to her. I think he wasn’t really a fan of the idea of forcing Alice to marry, and that he was hoping he didn’t have to pick a side between his daughter and his wife, but when it comes to family you can’t not take sides. Realizing that ultimately her father took Sarah’s side, Alice preferred to go to the asylum than marry some dude. I wonder if these parents (specially Sarah) would make the same choices and demands if this whole thing was about Millie instead of Alice. Maybe. But maybe not.
Present day begins after Alice found the location of Jafar’s tower, and now she is headed that way. Right in the first few scenes we see her kick the ass of 2 men, and it was really funny when they found Will and said that Alice attacked them while they were sleeping. We are all like “yeah, right”, including Will. Jafar definitely made an amazing prison: very hard to escape, since we learn that the tower is in a floating island, and also hard to get rescued, since you have to cross the Black Forest to do so. This forest definitely stood up to its name, because everything was literally black. Most people in Wonderland didn’t know this, but the reason why no one returned wasn’t because of this first part, but because of the second: Borogrove. Here we meet the creepiest man ever who apparently goes by the name Carpenter. The reason why very few people leave is because this place makes you want to stay there forever. But not all is lost because Will comes to Alice’s rescue. But even after that, things decline because Alice doesn’t remember anything, so Will makes her remember by using Cyrus’ neckless, proving once again that love is the most powerful magic of all.
Sometimes things are left unexplained, and that sucks real badly, but it is great that they explained why Borogrove didn’t affect Will: because he doesn’t have his heart. I think this makes sense because it makes you want to stay by giving you happiness (not real happiness, but happiness nevertheless), and since he doesn’t have his heart he can’t feel anything, neither real nor fake. It was also nice seeing Alice happy, even if it wasn’t real happiness and it was only for a short while. She is on a quest for love and that will probably only lead to one of the two: heartbreak, or a happy ending (or happy beginning if you prefer). Since happy endings are hard to come by, at least we managed to see her smile, just in case she doesn’t succeed.
At the same time, we see Cyrus also meaning to find Alice, while on the run from Jafar’s guards and the Red Queen. It was nice seeing the Queen here. She has the bottle and if she finds Cyrus, then Jafar can’t continue underestimating her. The writers are definitely well developing her character, and I like her more and more every episode. But her efforts are worthless, because when Cyrus is caught between Anastasia and a cliff, he literally takes a leap of faith.
This episode was nice, but I feel like it was more of a filler episode, because nothing much happened that affected the major storyline. This was a little bit of a step back in the season, so I will give it a 7.6.
I will be back soon with my next review of episode 107, “Bad Blood”, in which blood ties will become a burden.