#7x10 the eighth witch

[dinneratgrannys]

I just had to see your face one last time. No, no, not the last. We'll always know each other, even if we don't.

[queenofglassbeliever]

The royal sisters of the Magical Kingdom.

[likehandlingroses]

OUAT Rewatch 7x10 - The Eighth Witch

I would do anything to save you, no matter how crazy. So, Lucy, if that means there's some other world where I really am your dad, then I believe it, Lucy. I believe.

[wicked-storybrooke]

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

Okay, but I LOVE Wish Hook!  He’s totally got the heroic heart of our Killian.    I was so proud of him when he gave the white elephant to Ella so she could remember Lucy!  He gave up his chance to be with his daughter so that another parent could be with hers.  *cries uncontrollably*  

I love him!

[abovethemists]

OUAT meets Brooklyn 99 - Part 8/???

[captainswanoncerlife]

OUAT 7X10 THOUGHTS

A lot happened in this episode. It was mostly enjoyable, but suffered a lot with the pacing. I was surprised that the show jumped over Henriella’s relationship, but hopefully they’ll go back and revisit the time before Lucy was born. I wasn’t surprised at the 8 year time jump, it was the easiest explanation for things. The characters on this show apparently don’t age. Gothel and her Coven of 8 is the creepiest thing this show has done. I really liked that the episode had Henriella being parents to Lucy and that Lucy wanted a sword. Regina was the one who cast the curse and she did it because Gothel and Drizella poisoned Henry and he would have died. But apparently you only need the blood of a witch who cast a dark curse to enact another which took care of the heart of the thing you love most problem. That was kind of a weak explanation in my opinion. 

I am fairly certain that the curse had a time travel element to it since the set-up looked like a time travel spell and because Hyperion Heights is in 2017 and according to Robin’s age it’s been 25 years since she was born. But Robin grew up in what I think is the New Enchanted Forest, so maybe it hasn’t been 25 years? Idk, the timeline’s always going to be confusing. Speaking of Robin, I loved her introduction. I also loved that Zelena’s farm is called Emerald Acres Farm. Regina’s line about not being there to discuss timelines was very meta. I really want to know how Zelena got her magic back since her loosing it was a pretty big deal in Season 6. 

Killian went to Rumple, who turned himself into Imp Rumple (I think) for help with the curse and he gave him a white elephant figurine that would allow him to be with Alice under the curse and then Alice was there and they couldn’t be near each other because of the curse and it was so sad. But Alice had a letter to Robin addressed to “my love” and Killian believes that his daughter and her loves’s True Love will prevail, which gave me all sorts of feelings and Alice and Robin hadn’t had a scene yet. But then they did. And it was so cute and heartbreaking and they paralleled Captain Swan and clung to each other and I probably love them. Scratch that. I do love them.

The episode showed when the Season 6 finale flash forwards took place when Henry took Lucy to what he said was the oldest part of this realm and called it the Original Enchanted Forest. So it seems that the curse affected both the new Enchanted Forest and the Original Enchanted Forest or was that just the oldest part of the New Enchanted Forest? What blasted through the doors in the Season 6 finale was Gothel and her Coven of 8 Witches. Wish Killian giving Ella the white elephant so that she could be with Lucy was so heroic and so Killian-like and I loved it. 

Kelly’s introduction was pretty awesome. I loved that she was a spin instructor and that she called her pupils monkeys. Also she’s engaged. The glimpse shown of her wedding dress was pretty, but it wasn’t to my liking. Regina trying to wake Zelena up by telling her about the curse when she thought her memory potion didn’t work was absolutely hilarious. I really enjoyed Regina and Zelena’s interactions in this episode. I really loved the fact that as soon as he heard what happened to Lucy, Henry rushed back to her. I also loved that Jacinda took comfort in him when he arrived. She must have been waiting hours to cry. I really wish the TLK Henry gave Lucy would have worked, but both parties in a TLK have to believe in True Love and Lucy doesn’t believe anymore. But Henry does, the Heart of the Truest Believer is back. This was the first time that both parties having to believe in True Love was brought up, but I’m certain this has always been the case for TLK’s (that and you have to remember the other person). Also, Emma Swan reference! The heroes are stuck in a vey bad place with the curse. If they break it, Henry dies, but if they don’t Lucy does. Rumple seems to think that Anastasia’s the Guardian and she could be, but I don’t think she is. I think that Alice is, or maybe Wish Killian. Whoever the Guardian is, he/she is apparently able to wake Lucy without breaking the curse or something like that.  

[enixamyram]

15th December 2017 first aired “The Eighth Witch”

Otherwise known as the first time Once Upon A Time introduced us to the beautiful romance that is Alice Jones and Robin Mills.

[justanoutlawfic]

Regina casting the curse by killing the one she loves the most vs. Regina casting the curse to save the one she loves the most...both named Henry.

[woodelf68]

OUAT 7x10, The Eighth Witch

This episode feels even more disjointed than usual. I have no idea when or what is happening most of the time. 

I have to admit that I enjoyed Zelena as the manic exercise class instructor Kelly (green, hahaha)! ‘Fly, my pretties!’ lol. 

Excellent casting on Robin, she looks just like her dad.  

It’s nice to see that Henry and family weren’t living rough in the woods all those years, since so far we’d only seen him in the resistance camp, and then there with Lucy before the curse hit. And now any old person can chop down a tree and create a magic wardrobe to another land? It took skilled woodworker Gepetto to do so before. 

Not seeing any reason why Anastasia should be the Guardian; she’s just been a teenaged girl suspended one breath away from death up till now, no one special. WHY DOES SHE HAVE MAGIC ALL OF A SUDDEN, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?

 Imp!Rumpel…okay, he still looked human in the EF2 last time we saw him with Regina. Did he deliberately allow the mantle of the DO to take over his appearance here, for maximum effect? Or had he taken up (possibly dark?) magic again since we saw him last, and this is the result? Viewers shouldn’t have to be doing all the work of figuring things out, ffs. I want to be told a story, not play an interactive mystery game.  

Since when is poisoning the thing witches do best? The Evil Queen’s the only one that I can think of who’s known for that. And why does Ivy want to cast this curse? Refresh my memory. 

HOOK GIVING JACINDA THE ELEPHANT THAT WOULD HAVE KEPT HIM AND ALICE TOGETHER. SO MANY FEELS. *CRIES* THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT GOING TO COLLEGE, HENRY MILLS. LOOK AT ALL THE DESTRUCTION YOU’VE WROUGHT. 

I must say Ivy being betrayed and tipped down into the pit with her mother was extremely satisfying. 

The daggers flying through the air and sticking in the cabinet door was pretty cool, especially followed by the humour of Ana’s “I think it’s in there”. 

Obviously they’re meant to correspond to the eight arms of the sigil that looks like a Solomon’s Seal, but ‘eight’ just sounds like a weird “needed” number for a coven. Three, seven, and nine (3x3) are usually the magically significant numbers. Could have been 9 if there had been one witch for each arm plus one more in charge. 

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME 7.10, The Eighth Witch

[queenofglassbeliever]

Eudora & Tiana's kingdom - Aurelianum (headcanon name)

"It's a beauty beyond words, princess."

[parrillanews]

390 HQ Regina Mills Screencaps - 7x10 “The Eighth Witch” in the Gallery.

[wicked-storybrooke]

[fandom-oracle]

Questions we still need answers to!

-> How many versions of the supposedly endangered magical closet trees are there? -> Why is Rumpel appearing as the Dark One again? -> How did Rumpel and Alice’s friendship develop? -> What is Gothel’s endgame? -> Is Anastasia the Guardian? 

Feel free to add more

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

So apparently at least 9 years have gone past in the Enchanted Forest.  Amazing how everyone looks exactly the same nearly a decade later.  (Regina and Hook even have the exact same hair styles).

Good genes, I guess, lol.