Episode Discussion 1x12: Skin Deep

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Episode Discussion 1x12: Skin Deep

After Mr. Gold's house is robbed, Emma keeps a close eye on him when it looks like he wants to track down the criminal and dole out some vigilante justice as payback, and Valentine's Day finds Mary Margaret, Ruby and Ashley having a girls' night out. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Belle agrees to a fateful deal to give up her freedom in order to save her town from the horrors of the Ogre war.

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[zippytheavenger.livejournal.com]

My thoughts, they are many:

-GAME OF THORNS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This makes me want to come up with flower-based puns for the whole ASoIaF series. A Clash of Kingsleaf! A Storm of Sunflowers! A Feast for Chrysanthemums! A Dance with Snapdragons!
-I want to party with Ruby.
-I do not want to party with Mary Margaret and Ashleigh, cause they are mopey as hell. And did you notice when MM winced after sipping her martini? Who in the hell can't handle a martini? That's just pitiful.
-I absolutely love how Belle flat out admitted that she went with Skinny because she was just jumping at the chance to play the hero.
-Gaaah, fucking Disney references. I guess I'm just going to have to try and stomach them as best as I can. But if the mermaid is named Ariel and has red hair and a little crab sidekick, I'm going to start chucking bricks at somebody.
-That said, I do like the scene where Belle is freaking out over the teacup and Skinny just stares at her like, "It's just a cup, chill your tits."
-I don't know about this retcon of Beauty and the Beast. It is pretty much that exact same story I've read a hundred times in period romance novels (yeah I read romance novels shut up) where the Magic Hoo-Ha goes to work for Mighty Wang as his governess or housekeeper or some shit and they have sexual tension for 500 pages. You know, Jane Eyre, but stupid.
-As is my wont, I must gush a minute about Skinny's costumes. LOVE the new coat, LOVE the gold shirt/red waistcoat combo, slighty iffy about the black leather pants. Some madman put leather pants on Rumpelstiltskin. What.
-I laughed so hard at the beginning when Gaston was all, " YOU CAN'T HAVE HER SHE IS ENGAGED TO ME" and Skinny is all, "lol housework"
-I want to go live in Casa Rumpelstiltskin. It'll be awesome, we'll quip and banter and I bet he parties twice as hard as Ruby. My life will be fabulous.
- Skinny's evil laugh sounds like someone wearing golf cleats dancing in a bucket of rubber duckies...in a good way!
-I think it's pretty neat how Belle's attempt to 'cure' Skinny blew up in her face. The whole 'I love him, so I can change him!' element of a lot of romances irks the living hell out of me. In real life a bad guy is very unlikely to turn into a good guy no matter what a special snowflake you are or how much you wuv him. Here Belle makes that fatal mistake of assuming that Skinny even wants to change, and that it's up to her to do it, and as a result Skinny goes on a rampage and everything turns to shit. That's what happens when you assume things, Belle.
-Watching Skinny&Gold go completely bananas with the screaming and the raging and the hitting with sticks...was pretty much the highlight of my week.
-A close second was Emma being so amused at having Gold behind bars, and carrying on pretty much like a kid taunting a zoo animal. Please let there be many, many more scenes of them bantering in the Sheriff's office.
-I liked Mary Margaret laying down the law on David and telling him to go home to his wife. You go, Mary Margaret. I still won't ever drink with you.
-"I've got my truck, let's go for a ride before my break ends." You know he meant that literally. lol, this show.
-Mermaid?! Yes! Soon! Please! DON'T FUCK IT UP.
-We've already had our Emma/Regina fight, now I wanna see Gold fight Regina. Come on, she totally has it coming.
-Wasn't it nice of the people at the asylum to provide Belle with lipstick?

[sweetkitten0417.livejournal.com]

Just had to say... I freakin LOVE everything you said. You have a great sense of humor and I was thinking a lot of the same things through the episode. LOL you call him Skinny haha. YES I would totally love to live in his castle too, that would be.... amazing. Also the whole Jail/Emma-Gold-banter was the BEST, I want more of THOSE scenes. Also I liked how he said when he asks her for a favor it will be much more then a sandwich. I was chuckling, and the whole "bring me back a cone?" I really don't want to wait another week for the next episode!!

[zippytheavenger.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, 'Rumpelstiltskin' is a lot to type over and over, and I just can't call him 'Rump'. That would be silly.

There is not NEARLY enough Emma/Gold interaction, in my humble opinion. They fascinate me so. I like seeing the way he behaves with her, because (up until this episode) with the exception of his origin story we'd never actually seen him in a situation of which he was not in complete control. He's always either swindling someone, manipulating them, threatening them, or just straight-up trolling them for shits and giggles...except when he goes up against Emma and she matches him one-for-one.

She totally brought him that ice cream. I will go to my grave believing this.

[sweetkitten0417.livejournal.com]

Yeah Rump sounds silly.... and yes she brought him that ice cream cone. :)

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Now if Emma were really on the ball, she could tell him that the ice cream counted as his favor, and they were even. :-)

[imzadi-gumdrop.livejournal.com]

OMG This totally! I used to be frightened of the favor and dissapointed in Emma for making the deal (aren't there laws against baby selling anyway?) but now I'm not worried at all. You know he's gonna have to cash it in to get Belle anyway.

[imzadi-gumdrop.livejournal.com]

OMG I love your reviewing style. I also love that you call him Skinny, cause I can't spell Rumplewatever :P And he is skinny anyway lol.

The Gaston thing was great though it bugged me that she didn't cut the rose enough and it looked wilted in the vase. That was my lipstick moment lol. Though I suppose that could've been on purpose.

The last Skinny/Belle scene was annoying with them dancing around the subject and almost purposely screwing it up but then the writers used to work for lost so...

I feel bad for Belle, I know how evil psych drugs can be. And though I don't want her dead or anything Queen lady does have a world of hurt coming.

I hope it doesn't take Skinny too long to figure it all out. I mean clearly she ain't on your side man, get a clue and know she's lying every time she opens her mouth.

Casa Rumpelstiltskin was awesome. So much rather be his housekeeper then Gaston's wife any day. I thought the falling of the ladder thing was sweet, although sappy, but I'm a die-hard shipper so I like it that way lol. And Skinny's "It's just a cup" was brilliant. Though I can understand her worry as he could have lost it. He is a little (lot?) unstable. Though it can clearly be something they have in common in the future. Again, poor Belle

Skinny will be a powerful ally in the war on Queenie. Imho this ep changes everything!

And Prince Charming is an ass, Snow is an idiot, and I wash my hands of both of them.

[zippytheavenger.livejournal.com]

That 'falling off the ladder' bit was twee, but in a cute way, I think. At least they didn't have him catch her and fall down as well, so she'd be on top of him and they'd be all "ooh, you guys, look at all this sexual tension that we have".

[goddessastra.livejournal.com]

wow...great minds think alike...not the same exact thoughts but similar train tracks going the same direction...

XD