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Once Upon a Time 1x14 “Dreamy” Review

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I’m going to straight up be honest with everyone and tell you all that I really don’t like this episode. It had potential because Amy Acker was in it (Nova/Astrid) and I loved her as Fred from Angel, but this episode was not only horrible, but it changed up previous canon about Grumpy and dwarves in general and I just didn’t like it at all.

Summary: The annual Miner’s Day Festival is coming up. Mary Margaret and Leroy attempt to get people to buy candles so the nuns don’t lose their convent, but no one wants to buy anything from the town harlot and town drunk. In the EF, a newly born dwarf falls for a clumsy fairy.

Opening: The seven dwarves.

New Characters:

Dreamy (Grumpy)/Leroy: Oh, boy! Where to even start with this. Dwarves are apparently hatched from eggs and the ones all born from the same clutch are considered brothers who live and work together. And when they are given their axes it determines their names (which can change over time). The dwarf we’ve known as Grumpy in previous episodes hatches early due to some fairy dust that managed to only fall onto his egg, and he apparently had a vision of the fairy that dusted his egg, and because of this, the axe names him Dreamy, because his head seems to be in the clouds. A year later, Dreamy meets Nova, when she’s having trouble collecting her fairy dust and then almost loses it. Dreamy plays hero and saves it. Nova tells him her dream of becoming a fairy godmother and he tells ‘you can do anything as long as you can dream it.’ They embark on a very timid romance, as dwarves don’t fall in love (as we’re told repeatedly), and fairies aren’t supposed to fall in love either. Dreamy has to have the fact that he’s in love told to him by Belle, who just happens to be stopping by the tavern he and his brothers frequent. Belle also has to spell out to Dreamy that Nova wanted him to come see the fireflies with her, and wasn’t just talking about her love for them. Dreamy rushes to see Nova and he talks about getting a boat to see the world. Once the fireflies appear, Nova kissed Dreamy and they make plans to run off together. I’m sure that would work out well. Stealthy (aw, Stealthy) catches Dreamy trying to leave and wakes up their brothers. They don’t understand why he’s leaving, because dwarves can’t fall in love. Blue Fairy comes to visit and basically guilts Dreamy into breaking up with Nova by saying she’s ruining her potential if she runs off with him. When Dreamy meets up with Nova she has found a boat for them but Dreamy tells her it’s not love, just a dream. Nova is pleading with him, telling him she loves him. Dreamy tells her dwarves can’t love. That was way harsh, Dreamy. He then goes to the mines and breaks his axe with his angst. He gets a new axe that now names him Grumpy.

Leroy, meanwhile, is the town grump and drunk. Mary Margaret tries to get him to help her sell candles for the nuns, but he says the town hates the two of them so there’s no use trying. But his heart is warmed when he meets Astrid the nun, after she accidently dusts him with glitter. He gets her fairy lights running (not a euphemism). He tells her he’s always wanted to sail, she tells him ‘you can do anything as long as you can dream it.’ It seems to be love at first sight for Leroy, and Astrid seems pretty smitten, considering she thinks she’s a nun. So Leroy volunteers to help sell candles after he hears Mother Superior tell Astrid she spent their whole budget on helium and now the nuns won’t be able to pay rent. If the convent closes it will be closed and they will be reassigned, and then Leroy would never get to see Astrid again. Leroy pledges to sell all $5000 worth of candles. But of course, no one wants to buy candles from Leroy or Mary Margaret. They attempt to sell door to door (Leroy says maybe people will buy candles just to make them go away), but still no one is buying. If this is such a ‘tradition’, should it matter who is selling the candle? Would the townspeople really be so petty about Mary Margaret and Leroy that they wouldn’t help out the nuns? Leroy, so smitten with Astrid, lies and tells her that he sold all the candles. Mary Margaret is furious, but then realizes that Leroy likes Astrid. She comments on how he couldn’t have picked someone less available. He retorts about her going after a married guy (to be fair, the married guy did leave his wife eventually, it’s doubtful the nun will leave her devotion to God). Leroy vows to get the money. He attempts to sell his boat to Gold (well, says he can have the boat as long as he puts what he would pay him towards the nuns rent),but Gold hates the nuns so he won’t help Leroy out. Astrid comes by with a pie and discovers all the candles on Leroy’s boat. He goes to drink with Mary Margaret who reminds him he can’t have a relationship with a nun. Leroy tells her that Astrid was the first person to ever believe in him. He just wanted a good memory with Astrid and drinking won’t help the pain, only one thing will. It looks as though Leroy is going to jump off the roof but he tells Mary Margaret he would never do that because he might hurt someone. He finds a convenient axe and hits the transformer, effectively cutting the lights in the town and making everyone have to buy candles.

So we basically have two sides of the coin with Dreamy (Grumpy)/Leroy and Nova/Astrid. Dreamy cannot ‘love’ because he is a dwarf and they cannot love and Astrid is a nun so she cannot love.

Nova/Astrid: Nova is a clumsy fairy who dreams of becoming a fairy godmother. She is tasked with bringing the year’s supply of fairy dust to the Blue Fairy. Considering how accident prone she is, I find this an odd task for her, but okay. Blue let’s her know that she’ll get to do it on her own next year and Nova is disappointed because she was hoping to be a fairy godmother. And then Blue laughs right in her face. I mean, I know Nova isn’t the best fairy around, but that’s rude Blue. And then Blue calls Nova a dreamer, which makes it all the more fortuitous that she not only accidently creates Dreamy, but later falls for him. When Nova meets Dreamy a year later he helps her when she almost makes a mess with the fairy dust and then when it almost goes into the incinerator because of her clumsiness. Look, I get being adorkable, that’s how Amy Acker’s character was on Angel, but she is really over the top here. No other fairy that we’ve met is like this. They seem to be all business, and yet here is Nova who doesn’t seem to have a clue. I get why Dreamy likes her, because they are very similar, and he’s never seen a girl before, except in his dreams, but their relationship makes very little sense. Nova tells Dreamy about the fireflies, but he doesn’t get that she’s inviting him to come with her to see them. So, of course she’s thrilled when he does show up. Nova is sad looking over the town where the fireflies will be because she wants to be part of the world and not over it. Dreamy is in the same situation but under the world in the mines. So that means they should run away together. Nova says she’ll meet him after she delivers the fairy dust. And somehow Blue finds out about all this which ends with Nova getting her heart broken because Dreamy says he can never love her since dwarves can’t fall in love. Amy Acker was excellent in this part. She finally gets to live in the world by falling in love and her heart gets broken because of it. Poor Nova.

All the fairies have become nuns in Storybrooke. Interesting route to go there. I guess it makes sense because the fairies would have had their own community and they curse needed for them to all stick together. Astrid is one of the nuns, who is just as accident prone and clueless as Nova was and also seems to have a soft spot for Leroy after he gets the fairy lights working. She tells him he can do anything. She has inadvertently ordered too much helium for the Miner’s Day Festival and depleted their budget so now they can’t pay rent. By the end, Leroy has gotten the money and Astrid is happy and it looks like we’ll have a good friendship going until the curse breaks. Maybe she’ll be able to forgive him for breaking her heart then.

Character Observations:

Mary Margaret: Okay, I get that she had an affair with David and essentially broke up their sham of a marriage, but Mary Margaret has been nothing but an upstanding citizen of Storybrooke for as long as anyone can remember. Would the denizens of Storybrooke really turn on her that easily. And why is no one mad at David for his part of the affair? Stupid double standards. So Mary Margaret is trying to find volunteers for the Miner’s Day Festival because half her volunteers quit due to her affair. What? Would people really quit volunteering due to the volunteer coordinator having an affair? Is this what it’s like living in a small town where everyone knows your business? This whole thing is insane. She made a mistake getting involved with a married man, but he did leave his wife so as to not continue the affair, so give them both some credit. Argh! Leroy calls Mary Margaret the Town Harlot. Seriously? With the way Ruby dresses, Mary Margaret is the Town Harlot? With the way Whale flirts with anyone on two legs, Mary Margaret is the Town Harlot? Give me a break. So Mary Margaret is basically trying to get these candles sold and the only one in town who will help her is Leroy, who is also despised because he is the town drunk. Very judgy, this town. In the end, the town has to buy candles from them, despite the fact that Leroy kind of forced them to because he cut the power. And since they sell out, Granny lights Mary Margaret’s candle as a way of making amends for judging her last week and it seems the rest of the town forgives her too. And all is right with Mary Margaret again.

Blue Fairy: I don’t really have much to say about her except that she is a terrible leader. She laughs at Nova when she expresses interest in becoming a fairy godmother. And she later tells Dreamy to break things off with Nova because he’s limiting her at becoming something great. How about Nova makes up her own mind about what she wants to do with her life?

Emma: She is looking into Kathryn’s disappearance. Her theory of Kathryn’s car breaking down and hitching a ride to Boston or a bus station is nixxed when Kathryn’s suitcase is still in the trunk of the car. She believes David is innocent of any foul play because of her superpower, but she begins to doubt him when she sees the phone records Sidney brings her. She eventually has to bring David in for questioning and puts him in the back of the sheriff’s car in front of the whole town.

David: Seems to be oblivious to anything going on with Kathryn. Swears they haven’t talked since she left and is surprised when she is deemed missing and he could possibly be a suspect. Dumb, dumb David.

Belle: We get a glimpse of her at the tavern Dreamy is drinking at. She basically tells him that what he’s feeling toward Nova is love and to hold onto it. She says it’s the most wonderful and amazing thing, it’s hope, it fuels our dreams. And that it doesn’t last forever. This is obviously not too long after she left Rumplestiltskin’s but before she returns home or Regina gets her (still not sure which one happens, only that Belle is captive in SB).

Questions:

Why is Kathryn starting law school in February or March? It was Valentine’s Day a few episodes ago so we know it’s around this time, plus the cool weather (even though it looks like fall and not winter). Wouldn’t law school either start in September or January?

Why does Gold (Rumplestiltskin) hate the nuns (fairies) so much?

Why is Emma still believing everything Sidney tells her after the whole playground debacle?

How did Blue know about Dreamy and Nova’s plans? Is she all knowing? Nova never said anything to her that we know of.

Did Regina doctor the phone records to make it look like he and Kathryn had that 8 minute phone conversation?

Why did Emma have to bring David to the station in her car? Could he not have come in on his own accord?

What happened to Grumpy’s story about being in love with a woman who looked like a fairy but left him and he ended up in jail for buying a stolen diamond in 7:15 AM? This episode doesn’t jive with that story and Grumpy doesn’t seem the type to make up a story for sympathy.

Observations:

Dwarves are hatched from eggs, fully clothed and with a full beard.

Dwarves don’t fall in love.

The pick axe determines the dwarves name.

It looks like Belle has just been let go by Rumplestiltskin at this point and is drowning her sorrows about him choosing his power over her at the tavern.

All the fairies are nuns.

The couple Mary Margaret and Leroy try to sell candles to are reminiscent of the nursery rhyme ‘Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean’

Once Upon a Time Firsts:

Gold/Rumplestiltskin’s hatred of the nuns/fairies

Names:

Nova means new.

Astrid means beautiful and beloved.

I did not like this episode. The whole Dreamy/Nova storyline was very convoluted and the treatment of Mary Margaret just made me very angry.

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