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Episode Title of Once Upon a Time Episode 7.04 Revealed

Screenwriter Adam Horowitz has taken to social media once again to give us a title spoiler for season 7 of Once Upon a Time.

Season 7 Episode 4 will be titled “Beauty.”

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Once Upon A Time returns Friday, October 6 on ABC.

Take a Closer Look at Medusa’s Powers in New Inhumans Sneak Peek

The SDCC trailer for Marvel’s Inhumans gave us our first look at Medusa’s (Serinda Swan) powers, and fans seemed overall satisfied with what it looked like.

Now, Marvel has given us a sneak peek which showcases Medusa’s beautiful hair in action.

The clip features Maximus (Iwan Rheon) completely failing at seducing Medusa and it ends with her wrapping her hair around him and looking very angry.

Check it out:

REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 105

The fifth episode of “Once Upon A Time in Wonderland”, “Heart of Stone”, begins in the exact moment episode 103 left off, with Will and Anastasia ready to jump off to Wonderland. It is in that moment that Anastasia’s mother shows up and tries to talk her out of it. As cruel as she might have been, she was right because Will and Ana didn’t think things through. When this episode aired there was a lot of rumors (none officially confirmed) that Anastasia’s mother was Lady Tremaine, making Anastasia one of the wicked stepsisters, which sounds right since this has the name of one of the two (the other being named Drizella). But in season 6 of “Once Upon A Time”, we met Lady Tremaine and also both stepsisters, which would normally cut off the rumors, but knowing what we know now about season 7, maybe she was actually a Lady Tremaine and maybe Anastasia is indeed one of the wicked stepsisters. This would take thing into a whole new level of confusing, but it is possible.

After ignoring Anastasia’s mother, this couple makes the jump and enters Wonderland where they realize that things are far from being what they imagined they would be. With just a wagon to call home and the food they manage to steal or gather, they realize that they can’t live only on love. Despaired as they are, Will and Ana sneak into the palace to steal food, but it becomes obvious that Anastasia wants something more. This is most easily seen after they get caught and kicked out. We see that Will stole some bread and is very happy about that, but Anastasia doesn’t even care about it. Realizing that going to Wonderland was a mistake and that her mother was right, Anastasia wants to go back home, but not empty handed. After she sneaks back into the castle, she meets the king once again. That is the moment the king realized he found his Queen, because Anastasia has ambition or, as he put it, “the desire to be more” than what she is. But this story is not yet finished. There will be someone that will push these two characters, making them the people we see in present day.

Instead of continuing the villain team-up, this episode showed something even more interesting: the team-up between a villain and a hero. In a team-up like this, the villain usually thinks he/she has the upper-hand, and this time it is no different. The Red Queen is aware that Jafar is simply using her to get what he wants. While he still doesn’t have it, she is sure she doesn’t have to worry much about him, but the problem lies on the fact that Jafar won’t need the Queen forever, and he will turn on her once he has what he needs. To protect herself from him, she needs a powerful magic dust, and to obtain that she needs Alice’s help. As a reward for her help, the Queen says she will tell Alice where Cyrus is. They go to a ravine, and while on the road, there was something the Red Queen said that I thought was really interesting “We both want something we don’t have, Alice. It’s just a matter of what we’re willing to do to get it”. This is definitely one of the things that distinguish a villain from a hero. Obviously everyone wants (at least one) something, and we all try to get it the best way we can. But that is of course subjective. It is exactly what we are willing to do to get what we want that makes us who we are. And in this episode we find out what Alice is willing to do to get what she wants. She will go to great length to find Cyrus, but she won’t kill someone to do it. This is one of the things that makes her a hero.

But heroes and villains aren’t so black and white, and I think, in her own way, Anastasia is a hero too. She hides behind an evil she created, but deep down, she is good, and we start to see that in this episode. She didn’t want the magic dust for herself, she wanted it to reverse the spell Jafar put on Will. “We are all heroes in our own tales”, but Anastasia is a hero in some other people’s tales too (at least she is one on mine).

Meanwhile, Jafar is planning other ways to force Alice to make a wish, and he kidnaps the Rabbit for help. In the end of the episode we see that they are now going to find someone Alice cares about.

After reversing the spell Jafar placed on his tower with the magic dust she was able to obtain, Alice is now coming for Cyrus, but Cyrus is also coming for Alice too, since he broke out of his cage. I am sure they will find each other soon.

This was, as usual, a nice episode, but not as nice as the last, so I will give a 7.9/10.

I will be back soon with my next review that will answer a question we have been wondering since the beginning of the show: “Who’s Alice”.

Emma Booth Joins Cast of Once Upon a Time in Recurring Role

Australian actress and model Emma Booth has joined the cast of Once Upon a Time season 7.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Booth joined in a recurring capacity and will play a witch whose true identity will be revealed later in the season.

Adam Horowitz has already confirmed that she won’t be reincarnating the show’s previous Wicked Witch played by Rebecca Mader.

The seventh season of Once Upon a Time premieres October 6 on ABC.

REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 104

Things are starting to make more and more sense and Jafar is one step closer to getting what he wants on episode 104 “The Serpent”.

This episode starts with a flashback, and in it we see young Jafar finding a woman everyone was afraid of, to be his teacher. It is because of flashbacks like this that they are so important in the Once Upon A Time universe. There are some things that could always, of course, be explained in the present, but it would probably feel more rushed and it wouldn’t be as easy to understand, and this is one of those cases. In this episode we finally know more of Jafar’s plans, and what he needs to do it. To change the laws of magic, Jafar needs 3 genies and to perform that spell it takes 2 sorcerers. Jafar already has 2 genies, which he and Amara were able to catch, so now he only needs Cyrus. Maybe it would be to imagine that something had happened to Amara along the way, and the two sorcerers now are Jafar and the Red Queen but, as I said before, Jafar is only using the Queen to get what he wants. She thinks they are going to change the laws of magic together, but she has no idea what is to come.

We also see some symbology of the serpent. “When they need to, they change their skin, and are reborn”. And that is exactly what Jafar does. But turned out he had done that already, before we all thought he did. Jafar was playing Amara just so that he could learn everything she knew. We also learned, with a little twist in the end of the episode, that the staff Jafar carries with him all the time is actually Amara’s magical essence. She was the one who made him aware of the genie spell. And as everyone has an endgame, we will find out, in episodes to come, not only exactly what Jafar wants to do when he is able to change the laws of magic, but also why Amara also wanted to perform this spell.

In present day, we continue to see conflicts of interest inside the villain team. Now that Jafar knows Alice has help, he wants Will eliminated and wants Anastasia to do it. The Red Queen is hoping to set the matter aside by simply putting Will behind bars, but Jafar wants him completely gone and wants everyone to see it, so that they don’t follow his example of helping Alice. A public execution is prepared and Anastasia is probably hoping very badly that Alice shows up to save him. I have to say that the people of Wonderland are definitely having too much of a good time in a public execution, which can totally relate to the original story in which the Red Queen is obsessed with cutting people’s heads off.

Meanwhile, after Alice and the Knave split up to run from collectors, who are working for the Caterpillar, Alice makes a new friend who is actually an old friend of Will’s: Elisabeth, also known as Lizard. This could possibly be another connection to the original animated movie Alice in Wonderland. There we see Bill who was literally a lizard, unlike Elisabeth who is a person. This character isn’t that much important in the movie, but then again she isn’t also here in the show, although we will see her once again. They find out the Knave of Hearts is to be executed and they manage to save him.

Bill, the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Trying to escape from the royal maze, Alice and Will stumble upon Jafar and the Red Queen. Jafar threatens to kill Will and even starts chocking him, which forces Alice to make her first wish: “I wish that if the Knave of Hearts dies, then I die”. This was totally a smart wish. Jafar can hurt Alice, but he can’t kill her since he needs her alive to make the rest of the wishes, otherwise he can’t use the genie. So, Alice doesn’t have to wish to save her own life. But Jafar would gladly kill Will, and now he can’t. It was also smart since she didn’t wish that only Jafar couldn’t kill Will (like a guy did in a flashback), no one can, or else she dies too. Jafar tried to force Alice to make a second wish by saying he would rip her arms and legs off, but she didn’t, which makes Jafar aware that she cares more for others than herself, and so going after the people she loves is exactly what Jafar is going to do. But wishes comes with a price and Alice paid it when Jafar turned Will to stone, saying if she wants her friend back, she will have to wish it.

Confrontations between good and evil started to take place, Jafar is starting to get what he wants and Cyrus is closer to being free. This was definitely a great episode and so I am giving it an 8.2/10.

I will be back soon with my next review of episode 105, “Heart of Stone” where we will find out how Will and Anastasia were separated and how she became Queen.

Once Upon a Time Season 7, Episode 3 Cryptic Title Revealed

Adam Horowitz has taken to Twitter once again to announce a Once Upon a Time season 7 title, this time we have episode 3.

The episode will be called “The Garden of Forking Paths.”

Huh?!

In the past, the episode titles in the show usually drop hints about what the episode will be about, and this is certainly no exception.

Fans have already speculated that the title refers to Cinderella’s decision in the garden to either stay home or go to the ball, therefore is just a way of saying the episode is going to revolve around Cinderella.

“The Garden of Forking Paths” is actually the title of a short story by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges about a Chinese spy for the German Empire during WWI.

In the story, Borges says that the “Garden of Forking Paths” is the name of a Chinese novel, which would represent Time.

Have you come up with any theories?

Once Upon A Time returns Friday, October 6 on ABC.

Once Upon A Time Showrunners Explain New Curse

The times they are a-changin’ on ABC’s Once Upon A Time. The series will feature a massive time jump and a brand new location for its upcoming seventh season. But not only will our favorite characters survive the time jump and new location… they will also have to deal with a brand new curse which will be much harder to break free from.

The new curse is set by the series’ new villain Lady Tremaine (played by Gabrielle Anwar). “As often is the case on Once Upon A Time, there’s more than meets the eye to what we know about the character. Lady Tremaine doesn’t like Cinderella very much and she’s got an agenda. But there is something broiling beneath that’s personal and painful that is driving all of this,” says executive producer Adam Horowitz to EW.

“She’s somebody who wants to get to the top and will use any means necessary. So why it’s important for her to be royal, why it’s important for her to crush everyone else, is the story of the year. In true Once Upon A Time fashion, evil isn’t born, it’s made, and we’ll see that with her as well,” added executive producer Edward Kitsis.

As expected, the new curse has created a Storybrooke-esque town called Hyperion Heights in Seattle, Washington (aka the Land Without Magic). But don’t consider this town Storybrooke 2.0. Lady Tremaine has thrown in a twist. “We’re going to see in Hyperion Heights that the role Lady Tremaine has taken is very similar in terms of getting to the top, in terms of being a developer, who is this character who is trying to push out the fairy tale characters who are living in Hyperion Heights, gentrifying the neighborhood and bringing other people in,” says executive producer David H. Goodman.

Horowitz: “We’re in a city now. Hyperion Heights is part of Seattle the way Brooklyn is part of New York. It’s more densely populated and it’s filled with fairy tale characters and non-fairy tale characters and that’s another interaction and vibe that we didn’t really have in Storybrooke, where it was all the cursed people.”

And the Tremaine twist is: “Lady Tremaine learned the lesson that Regina didn’t, which is don’t keep them all together where one day they can find themselves, push them the hell out! You push them the hell out and you gentrify the neighborhood and you bring in a cold press juicer and they can’t afford it anymore, then you won’t worry about the Pied Piper finding, you know, Alice,” added Kitsis.

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Goodman: “[Lady Tremaine] is sort of Regina-prime and she’s trying to figure out a way to scatter these fairy tale characters to the wind so they can’t be together, because as we’ve always seen, when these characters get together, they always figure out how to beat the bad guy. Not giving anything away what the curse is, but she’s learning and standing on the backs of these other curses that have come before her to be as effective a villain as possible.”

But wait… Lady Tremaine has the power. Lady Tremaine is separating the fairy tale characters. So is it official that she cast the new curse?

Kitsis: “We said very clearly in the pilot of Once Upon A Time that Regina cast the curse. What you’ll see this season is we don’t necessarily say that in the premiere.”

So, who cast the new curse?

Once Upon A Time returns Friday, October 6 at 8pm/7c on ABC.

H/T: EW

Premiere Date Set for Scandal‘s Final Season

ABC has (finally) unveiled its premiere plan for the 2017-18 TV season. So that means the season premiere of Scandal‘s swan song has been set!

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The Shondaland TGIT block will start with a two-hour season premiere for Grey’s Anatomy, followed by How To Get Away With Murder on September 28, with Scandal joining the lineup the following week for its slightly abbreviated final season.

So that means Scandal‘s 18 episode final season will premiere on October 5, 2017.

H/T: TVLine

REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 103

Once Upon A Time in Wonderland’s episode 103, “Forget Me Not”, continued two important and major messages from Once Upon A Time. In the flashbacks we meet (or merely see for OUAT fans) Robin Hood and we find out that Will Scarlet was once a member of the Merry Men. In these scenes we could see that Robin was already the thief that steals from the rich to give to the poor. Will convinces him to go to the Forbidden Fortress (Maleficent’s castle) to steal a chest of gold. It is a shame we didn’t get to see Kristin Bauer (The actress who plays Maleficent on the main show), but it is nice we got to hear her voice on the scene where the Merry Man were celebrating the theft. This scene makes Robin aware that Will stole something other than gold, he stole a magic mirror. And here is where he warns Will: “All magic comes with a price”, and unfortunately, Will will have to pay it later in the season.

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Aside from this, we see, also in flashbacks, that “Evil isn’t born, it’s made” (a message that will also be looming over for the next 2 episodes). We meet Anastasia and after the scene that Will talks to her but we don’t see her face, I felt like it wasn’t hard to guess who she was. I don’t think it was exactly obvious, but it wasn’t that difficult to figure it out. Anastasia, and Will’s lost love, is the Red Queen. We see that then she was nice and sweet. In the end of the episode they use the mirror Will stole and open a portal, ready to go to Wonderland. Before I continue, I would like to address this matter. Many people say that the writers made it, at first, super hard to travel between worlds and it became more and easy throughout the seasons. That may be true sometimes, but this isn’t the case, since this mirror (like some other portals we see throughout the show) was made to take people to one specific land (Wonderland in this case). Will and Anastasia could not have used that looking glass to go anywhere else.

Back to the present now, I found in this episode a lot easter eggs to other stories/movies. When the Red Queen is looking for monsters that are fearful enough to force Alice to make a wish, she mentions two that might have been a little overlooked and/or ignored, but not by me. First she mentions the Mome Rath which is taken from the original animated film of Alice in Wonderland, but only the name. She says that it is a very dangerous creature with teeth like needles that cut through almost anything, but in the movie they are harmless flower-like creatures (as you can see in the image below). The Queen also mentions the Sarlacc. This one was taken from Star Wars and in these films, this monster is very alike what Anastasia said: a creature able to digest someone through the course of a thousand years. But the creature that Jafar and the Red Queen pick is the Bandersnatch. This one was featured in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) and it is also alike the one we meet here, expect for the fact that in the films it looks more like a dog, while in this show it is more like a boar.

Mome Raths in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Still with other movies mythology, we meet Grendel which can be a reference to the movie Beowulf, although in this show this beast is made more human. Here, Grendel is an ogre-like man who is stuck in the past and can’t move on from his wife’s death. It is explained that he stole the “Forget Me Knot”, a knot that allows people to see into the past, from the Red Queen and she was the one who gave him that horrible appearance. Grendel helps Alice and Will when the Bandersnatch comes after them and together they manage to kill it, since Cyrus had tricked Jafar and the Queen to thinking it would force Alice to make a wish, when he knew she wouldn’t because he had taught her a lot about these creatures.

With the knot in their hands, Alice and Will finally find out that the Rabbit was the one who knew where Cyrus’ bottle was, and that he is working for the Red Queen.

Aside from Wonderland, we also are shown Underland, a place “ruled” by the Caterpillar and filled with thieves and hunters, that is to say, Will’s enemies. Jafar visits this place short after he kills Grendel, to find out more about Alice’s Knave.

This episode was cool and, as I said before, this show is getting better and better. I really don’t know why so many Oncers didn’t watch it, since it is very truthful to the main show. I will give it a 7.8/10.

Stay tuned for my next review of episode 104 “The Serpent”.

Watch Henry Leave Storybrooke and Meet Cinderella in New ‘Once Upon a Time’ Sneak Peek

Remember when we told you about fans at Comic-Con getting to watch the first two scenes of Once Upon a Time season 7?

Well, that footage has been released.

The clip shows young Henry saying goodbye to Regina as he leaves home, and then adult Henry crashing into Cinderella’s carriage,

Check it out:

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