Liveblogging Bleeding Through OUAT Episode 18

I’ve been so behind on Once Upon a Time so I’m two episode behind but I’m going to be live blogging about Episode 18, Bleeding Through.

Regina looking flawless as always….and green apples. I love all the symbolism. why is zelena soooo sweet and undercover bitchy? haha I prefer Regina’s snark

omg omg oh god this boy. nooo we are not allowed to put Robin’s precious son in mortal danger EVER. Oh thank god I love Roland so much….oh thank god.

But nooooo NOW REGINA IS GOING TO FEEL BETRAYED and omg she’s growing because she’s not even upset at Robin for literally giving away her heart. Regina has grown so much. Good on you, OUAT writers, good on you.

Regina and Belle…awkward…omg Regina is apologizing. This is such a great episode already. There’s such character growth!!!! omg this has to be Regina-centric episode because i don’t think i’ve even seen emma or snow or charming yet. but anyways, back to the plot, i wonder what spell zelena needs.

Flashback Attack!! I don’t wanna learn more about Cora (Regina’s mom.) I hate her so much…

Whaaat…..!?!? Cora…getting married…again? Before? First? Obviously this is before Regina and Rumple…she seems so happy.

And that prince is soooo…idk…smooth. he looks like gaston…this can’t be good. oh shit this little harlot just went to bed with him. girlllll never do that; you are not officially married yet.

Wait a second ghostly encounters? Summoning shit…this is not going to go right.

Aw Regina’s heart is “battered” I hate Zelena lol and her relationship with her pet monkey is weird…

“the murder weapon and…the murderer” lmfao awkward. Snow, own up to that shit lol

oh god the wind is going crazy, someone is gonna have to get exorcised after this…

flashback!! yooo so this dude really just did ALL OF THAT just to have sex with a barmaid? like that was such an intricate plan. see this is why i told her not to sleep with him…

annnnd yay cora gets the real prince i guess…(leopold, snow white’s dad) except….obviously she doesn’t because obviously he marries Eva…. (snow white’s mom)

aww snow and regina heart to heart. awww snow is trying to be sassy too lol

ohhhhh noooo what is that?!?!? Cora is trapping them into the house.

ewww WHY IS SNOW WHITE’S DAD SO OLD ALREADY!?!?!!? Regina wasn’t even born at this point. Regina eventually marries the dude Cora is crushing on and it’s so gross…..

awwww regina is forgiving everyone. this is beautiful. this is a beautiful thing. i can’t wait till she falls in love with robin…but right now, she’s having mommy issues.

yup thumping and shit upstairs. this is not a healthy environment for snow’s future baby. she is like 8 months pregnant. annnnd here’s cora.

why are emma and hook hanging out? awwww 🙂 they’re so cute they’re hanging out and she’s practicing magic around him and they’re basically already datinggggg. i need him to come clean about his curse though

and belle figured out the plannn!!! even though everyone (as in viewers) already knows the plan because clearly she wants a brain and a heart and courage….because for whatever reason, those are the ingredients to turn back time? (calling it now…)

okay now she’s revealing it anyway. lol she’s telling rumple shit. oh right, she needs the baby. why does she need snow’s baby? omg she’s prob gonna sacrifice him…oh god.

no no rumple, you do not get to become happy about this. nealfire is dead. leave it alone. stay good.

regina is protecting snow from her own mother. that’s so nice of her.

oh god the gardener is back and he’s gonna fuck up everything for Cora, I know it. oh…material blackmail. that’s manageable. OMFG NEVERMIND snow white’s mom is a bitchhhhhh.  (but not really, she honestly grows up to be such a lovely person lol) she’s gonna tell EVERYONEEEEE

why is regina ALWAYS getting bitchslapped. omg this is so rude. snow white is being possessed!!!! oh cora is going to show snow white. ohhhhhhh wait she’s going to ruin snow’s wholesome image of her mom.

and here’s leopold with eva…who is kind of a bitch………goddamn….poor cora. ughhh i hate this because i hate cora but i feel so bad for her.

“i’ll give you a child worth loving, one pure as snow.” ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shittttttttttt poor snow. her name is so tainted by everything now. 😦

yasss belle. she’s so smart and wise and shit.

yooooooo this spell ruins soooo many lives. if zelena is going back to kill eva, that means snow won’t be born, and neither will emma and henry and maybe not even regina. (sidenote: that is so rude to accuse regina of not helping, emma. CLEARLY she has been on your side for like the whole season!!! gosh this is just like the 2nd season when henry was a little shit to regina)

annnnnnd here comes zelena…and rumple….

rumple….i hope you are tricking her. i hope for belle’s sake that you are lying!!!!!! please, for once, be a truly good guy omg. ew don’t kiss her whatttttt

oh jesus thank god. zelena is one effed up person. why is everyone so attracted to rumple? he is so old

regina and snow are bonding and talking and this is so perfect. all of this. this was all so greatttt. listen to her regina. don’t let anything hold you backkkkkk

omgg its a robin hood scene omgggg are you goign to kiss him omg omg omg omg KISS HIM. AHHHHH she is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they’re kissing. she’s holding onto happiness. she’s finally going after shit yessssssssssss regina seize the dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

The End.

This was great. I’m so happy for Regina. Honestly, her growth over the entire series is just so impressive from a writing perspective. I used to hate Regina in the first season and that turned to a touch of pity in the second season to just all around love for her in the third season. I can’t wait for the next episode. 🙂

Wicked is Coming…

Once Upon a Time has come off hiatus and before talking about it, I wanted a few episodes to air so I could maybe get a feeling of what the second half of the season is to bring.

I am not disappointed.

Zelena AKA the Wicked Witch is the new bad bitch in town. Move over Regina (jk, I love Regina)

When all the fairy tales go back to the Enchanted Forest, they try to rebuild their kingdom and move on from the pain of losing Emma and Henry. Only to find out that Regina’s castle has been taken over and there’s a protection spell around it. Zelena appears and reveals that she is Regina’s sister from another mister, something that SHOULD be shocking but given the crazy, headache-inducing family tree that Henry has to deal with is already in effect, it doesn’t actually do much of anything. Regardless, this time it’s interesting because it’s not revenge or anything equally as serious and potentially violent. It’s just…jealousy. Haha, I just got the reference; The Wicked Witch is green with envy. Omg! Anyways, yeah…

HIGHLIGHTS!!! (things I am the most excited about!!!!)

ROBIN HOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In Neverland, there was a flashback involving Tinkerbell trying to help Regina be happy and not evil (way before the curse) and she gives her a way to find her True Love. Regina sees his arm, which has a tattoo, but she is too scared to be happy and give up on her revenge and anger so she leaves before seeing his face and learning his identity. He remains in Fairy Tale Land during Regina’s original curse but he was seen briefly when Mulan joins the band of Merry Men. ANYWAYS!!!! ROBIN HOOD AND REGINA ARE GONNA FALL IN LOOOOOOOVEEEE! lol I just want her to be happy. It’s been QUITE some time so I feel like she deserves it now that she’s redeemed herself.

Roland!!!!!! He’s Robin Hood’s son. I know, isn’t his name adorable!?!?!?!?! He honestly doesn’t have much of a role but he is ADORABLE. SO SO ADORABLE. And knowing he will eventually be Regina’s stepson and Henry’s…adoptive…stepbrother?- is just so great!!!

Emma and Captain Hook are clearly going to fall in love and I’ve only been waiting for this to happen since the moment he appeared on screen. (the middle of season 2)

Emma and Henry: Okay, I love the fact that Henry doesn’t remember anything because he’s older now and we get to see a woman trying to convince her son that he is the grandson of two fairytale characters. I just think it’s a very interesting parallel to the first season. Henry was always…The One. Like, despite him being annoying and bratty and ten years old, he was the only one that knew what the audience knew. We were all Henry because we just wanted Emma to break the curse and we already knew about magic and the fairytale characters’ true identities. But now, suddenly, Henry’s not with us anymore. It’s just going to be very interesting to see how Emma handles him especially now that he’s older.

Snow White and Charming’s baby: Okay this doesn’t seem like it’s that big of a deal but there are just so many directions they could take this. Regardless of whether or not it’s a girl or a boy, it could be kidnapped or lost (as in miscarried/stillborn), it could be taken by another curse, it could be raised and loved as a normal child with conflicts arising with fitting Emma in their lives, etc. It could also just be a baby lol and that would be fine too. Very rarely do we see fairytales after their happily ever after’s and I think that’s why the subject of their second child (and this show in general) is so refreshing.

Zelena: Zelena is interesting because she’s nice. One thing you could say about Regina was that you could always count on her to have her best interests (or Snow’s worst interests) at heart. You could always trust her to be “evil” because she was the only one other than Henry that was aware of the curse. This time though Zelena is the only one aware and she’s being nice to Snow White and Charming and all of the other heroes…almost like she knows they’re going to regain their memories. Almost like she wants them to just so that they’ll have no idea it’s her when they do. She’s sketch. She’s sketch as hell. People who can hide their true feelings are dangerous people indeed. And her motivator- jealousy- is such an interesting emotion because it’s SO unpredictable. It’s just a whim, at least to me. It’s not something that’s life-or-death. She’s going to play this smart; she’s not going to throw her all into something just so she can destroy someone. She’s more calculated than Regina, who honestly just threw her curse on the land and didn’t care what happened as long as Snow White was unhappy.

Once Upon a Time by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz

Zelena Vs. Regina: Omg, I just realized their names rhyme and that kind of annoys me but okay. Here’s the thing; Regina has grown a lot. She has gone from “pure evil” in season 1, to trying to be good and backsliding in season 2, to sacrificing EVERYTHING for the only other person she has loved, and now she has a chance to love again. But she also has a whole new world of problems and pain-inducing circumstances: she has to watch her son as he calls another woman “mom” and she can’t tell him who he really is to her. Her RANDOM half-sister came out of NOWHERE (and that opens a few issues on its own regarding her mother’s relations and private life. I mean…her older sister’s green and she isn’t even from the same world as Regina!) and she wants to destroy her and Regina is going to be tempted to stoop down to her level- to fight “wicked” with “evil.” She even says “I have something new to live for: destroying someone.” I don’t know what’s going to happen. I hope Regina doesn’t die because I finally like her (I vehemently hated her existence in the first season) but I can see them giving her a very heart-wrenching, sacrificial, hero’s end. Either way, there’s so much possible with this and I can’t wait to see what they do with it.