Skin Deep Questions
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abc_onceuponI have some questions here to ponder for Skin Deep.
1. I'll start with the first question I was wondering about as I watched the episode. Why didn't Gold use his please to get the cup back? He used it to make Regina sit in the same scene so it is not as though he forgot he could do it. As with all magic there is likely price for each please he uses so maybe the price was too high? Or maybe it wasn't worth it since using it would basically out him anyway?
2. Is there any truth to the Queen's tale? Obviously Belle is alive so that part is false but we don't know for certain how much of the rest was true. Personally I vote for completely false and the Queen grabbed Belle as she left Rumpel's castle but then I tend to figure that the Queen is lying all the time.
3. Knowing about Belle and the price for the Curse I'm now wondering if he made the Curse after Belle. Because then it seems like payback.
4. Turning Gaston into a rose: creepy? funny? plain evil? romantic? Some combo of all of them?
5. When Regina was asking Gold for his true name who thinks she didn't know he's Rumpel? It seemed clear to me that what she wanted to know was if he remembered who he is (and get him to admit it) not that she was wondering who he is. Regina remembers everything and knows who everyone was and now we know for certain Gold does too.
6. Connectedly, did anyone else get a chill when he said his name? I was certain he knew even back when I watched the pilot but hearing him say it out loud was still intense. And that smile. Also, I noticed that Regina asked for his name three times before he said it. Nice fairytale callback!
7. The question now is how long Gold has known he is Rumpel? I vote for right from the start since we know he brought Henry to Storybrooke and that was not an accident. But he may not have been fully aware until Emma arrived. After all, 28 years of nothing changing is rather dull. Unless he used the time to make outside deals?
8. True love's kiss. Why didn't it work? It started to but then Rumpel pulled himself together and stopped it with his power firmly in place. It seems to me that it didn't work because he rejected it and not because it wasn't true love. I see him as someone who truly believes he is not worthy of love and no one can love him so this must be a plot or Belle playing the hero saving him. Also, losing his power while the Queen is around seems a VERY dangerous proposition.
9. And the mirrors. Belle thinks he covers them because he doesn't want to look at himself but the level of paranoia he shows after the kiss makes me think he covers them so that the Queen will have a harder time spying on him. And he certainly got a good rant on to the mirror when he uncovered it.
1. I'll start with the first question I was wondering about as I watched the episode. Why didn't Gold use his please to get the cup back? He used it to make Regina sit in the same scene so it is not as though he forgot he could do it. As with all magic there is likely price for each please he uses so maybe the price was too high? Or maybe it wasn't worth it since using it would basically out him anyway?
2. Is there any truth to the Queen's tale? Obviously Belle is alive so that part is false but we don't know for certain how much of the rest was true. Personally I vote for completely false and the Queen grabbed Belle as she left Rumpel's castle but then I tend to figure that the Queen is lying all the time.
3. Knowing about Belle and the price for the Curse I'm now wondering if he made the Curse after Belle. Because then it seems like payback.
4. Turning Gaston into a rose: creepy? funny? plain evil? romantic? Some combo of all of them?
5. When Regina was asking Gold for his true name who thinks she didn't know he's Rumpel? It seemed clear to me that what she wanted to know was if he remembered who he is (and get him to admit it) not that she was wondering who he is. Regina remembers everything and knows who everyone was and now we know for certain Gold does too.
6. Connectedly, did anyone else get a chill when he said his name? I was certain he knew even back when I watched the pilot but hearing him say it out loud was still intense. And that smile. Also, I noticed that Regina asked for his name three times before he said it. Nice fairytale callback!
7. The question now is how long Gold has known he is Rumpel? I vote for right from the start since we know he brought Henry to Storybrooke and that was not an accident. But he may not have been fully aware until Emma arrived. After all, 28 years of nothing changing is rather dull. Unless he used the time to make outside deals?
8. True love's kiss. Why didn't it work? It started to but then Rumpel pulled himself together and stopped it with his power firmly in place. It seems to me that it didn't work because he rejected it and not because it wasn't true love. I see him as someone who truly believes he is not worthy of love and no one can love him so this must be a plot or Belle playing the hero saving him. Also, losing his power while the Queen is around seems a VERY dangerous proposition.
9. And the mirrors. Belle thinks he covers them because he doesn't want to look at himself but the level of paranoia he shows after the kiss makes me think he covers them so that the Queen will have a harder time spying on him. And he certainly got a good rant on to the mirror when he uncovered it.
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Date: 2012-02-16 04:04 am (UTC)