tv_talk | Once Upon a Time: Home Base

This is the home base for Once Upon a Time!!!

This wonderful show is currently in its third season.
Season three has been split into two 11 episode mini seasons.
Each with their own story arc.

Part one of season three has already aired.
Part two starts March 9th 2014.
It should air every Sunday for 11 weeks in a row.
Once Upon a Time airs Sundays 8pm EST in the US on ABC

Episodes already aired:
3x01 - 3x11
I started a comment thread here if anyone wants to talk about the first half of the season.
Comment thread for links to OUaT fanworks.

3x12: New York City Serenade [March 9, 2014]
3x13: Witch Hunt [March 16, 2014]
3x14: The Tower [March 23, 2014]
3x15: Quiet Minds [March 30, 2014]
3x16:It's Not Easy Being Green [April 06, 2014]
3x17: The Jolly Roger [April 13, 2014]
3x18: Bleeding Through [April 20, 2014]
3x19: A Curious Thing [April 27, 2014]
3x20: Kansas [May 04, 2014]
3x21: Snow Drifts & 3x22 "There's No Place Like Home" [May 11, 2014]

Upcoming Episodes:

We'll be back in the Fall with season Four!!!

-A new comment will be posted for each new episode.
-Once Upon a Time Primer can be found here...

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I was pretty sure it was going to be Neal when I heard that one of the regulars was going to be killed off. I became more sure with rumors that he stopped filming a while ago and I heard the death was either in 3x15 or 3x16. I didn't want anyone to be killed off really but if it had to be someone I was glad it was him. I was sad for the other characters his death had impact on though.

What drives me really nuts about the choices he made here is that Emma and Henry weren't in danger. He knew that. He had time to find a better way to get to them. He knew that what he was doing was going to be bad, even Belle wanted to stop him when she figured out that cost would be too high and she's in love with Rumple. But no, he had to do it anyway.

Obviously there was another way to cross to the Land without magic...or else Hook wouldn't have been able to get to Emma. I have no idea how he did it but obviously it was possible.

Sometimes I think Neal just spend too many years in Neverland as a teen and just never really grew up. Hook may have spent just as long, if not longer but he was an adult already...

I don't know. Neal's gone now anyways, of course it's because of his actions that a new curse got cast in the first place and for nothing. He got to briefly see Emma and never got to see his son again. I guess I can stop complaining about him now that he's gone though.

Yes, I remember you guessed Neal. I didn't think it'd be him because we already thought he'd died half a season ago (and I'm not looking forward to either having to watch the fallout again, or it having less of an impact on everyone this time because... no reason).

The problem is, I liked that about Neal. That he was kind of an idiot. So it doesn't make me less sad about his death.

I remember loving how unsatisfying his and Rumple's reunion was, how Neal didn't hate him but never seemed to quite forgive him – I love how it wasn't a clear-cut thing, especially in contrast with that false reunion Rumple had with August, which followed a simple script with anger and then forgiveness – but after a certain time I started thinking it's a problem Neal can't move past this. (A problem for him as a person, I mean; I don't think it was a problem in the writing, I liked it.) I mean, getting abandoned by his father like that is not a minor thing, but I couldn't help feeling he forever remains defined by it; so I agree he never quite grows up, but I think it's not just Neverland, but him not being able to get past this defining moment of his childhood. And that's understandable but ends up being a problem when both Rumple and him have such an impact on other people's life, that for him it is all about that one moment, and about who Rumple is to him. Because I think that's part of why he brought Rumple back so thoughtlessly? To him, Rumple is his family, and, like, he and his family – that includes Belle now, but that's it – have rights on him, and the fact that Rumple has been influencing several worlds in a significant way and is dangerously powerful doesn't really weight into it. Because that's something Bae's never liked and cared about anyway.

I really liked those hints, earlier in the season, when Neal wanted to go to Neverland, that he's quite capable of being quite ruthless when it's about getting his son back. But I thought this now, was rather rushed. Like you said, there was no hurry. I guess he was really desperate and not thinking, but still. Why not listen to this random magical candle that you just met and that is just conveniently standing around?
I was cheering for Belle and her reasonableness.

I was sad for the other characters his death had impact on though.
To be honest, that's the main reason I'm sad...

Once Upon a Time: Home Base

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