#Bobby was a goner from the moment she walked up to that scene and he put that rooster in her arms

[thefrsers]

BATHENA FAVORITE MOMENTS: Their First Meeting

[hausofmamadas]

DINARRÓN | Or should I say Dinarellaron …

✷✷✷ (For any and all Dinarrón content, refer to disclaimer in these posts) ✷✷✷

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From Narcos: Mexico, Season 2, episode 2 - Alea Iacta Est

Aka that one time all three Arellano siblings eyed Barróncito like the prime rib he is went heart eyes for Barrón.

And who can blame them? Even los Arellanos are not exempt from popping the occasional catching the occasional workplace boner crush.

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Already. I mean cmooon, given this entrance with that little shy-boy chin bop, wtf did we think was gonna happen??? They were all gonna look at him and be like, “nah?” Sksksksks no they were all fucking goners, right off the bat, like no match to the silent-but-deadly magnetism our boy is droppin here.

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Oh okay, and then this little walk he does down the stairs. Like in all seriousness (i’ve talked about this with Món/Manuel Masalva before) there’s something about his physicality, like it’s all over that legendary S3 scene at Christine too. And idk if it was the directors, or the writers, or just Bobby Soto plain being like, “So, imma walk down these steps in the sexiest way possible, hope that’s cool with you guys” no te preocupes, chulito, it’s v cool with us but like his whole physicality is just undeniably h o ttttt.

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OKAY YOU MOTHERFUCKINGXDJDKSKDJDNDNSJ GOONS. This is it. This is the first time Dina lays her gotdamn beautiful brown eyes on gotdamn beautiful Barrón. And what praytell does she look like? Tell me what she looks like????? I’ll give you a hint …….

SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE SIZING THIS BOY UP LIKE HE A SLICE OF PECAN PIE WITH A FAT SCOOP OF VANILLA ICE CREAM ON TOP. SHE SEES THAT SWEET SNACK SURPRISE AND SHE KNOWS OKAY

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And just join me, for a moment, in overanalyzing this shot bc it’s not just Dina who’s enamored. Juuuust after Barrón leans back, before Mon shakes his hand. Take in that image right there and tell me they don’t ALL look like they wanna climb him like a jungle gym. They straight look like Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed from the Lion King, bout to bust out into showtunes before making a meal of the kid sksksks. And lbr, he and Panchito were in prison for a min so his look might be “aaaah, memories.” Cuz they never really tell us like what is it that made him such a faaan of Barrón in the first place. And gorl was pushin real hard for the rest of the fam to like him, just sayin.

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There’s no logical Dinarrón reason for me to include this except that the way Ramon walks here rivals aforementioned Barrón stairwalk in terms of pure sexness sksksks like godddd he looks good🥴 OH EXCEPT, the way Barrón follows Mon to confront Chapo and Cochi. Already the work ethic. Mans means business strollin behind, already all-in with the backup even tho he just got there.

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And then we have over here Dina also surveying the scene, making sure no one pulls ANY shit, ready at a moment’s notice to fucking cut you no but like literally sksksks she will actually cut you with the champagne bottle she cracked over that putamadre’s head. SO BASICALLY, Dina and Barrón are literally doing the same damn thing, providing the saaame damn function, in case things pop off in this convo between Mon, Cochi and Chapo which I did gif and desperately wanted to include but couldnt bc of Tumblr’s stupid 10 image limit 😤😤🙄🙄

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And here, I’d like to welcome you to our next edition of Inside the Actors- no Scene overAnalysis with Your Local Space Witch, Kaybron. Wherein I will transform, before your very eyes, into the It’s Always Sunny Pepe Silva meme.

First off, Dina adorably rubbing Moncito’s head like, “yes, good job with fam protec against that scareee Chapo and scareee Cochi, big strong, prad of u.”

Second, just after the adorable sibling head rub, Barrón proceeds to PUT HIS HANDS ON PANCHITA’S SHOULDERS like a “cmon buddy it’ll be okay” gesture or “echoes of our secret prison love affair” gesture I’m not sure cause they’re bestest good frands and he don’t want his bestest good frand to be mad at his own party. SO BASICALLY Dina and Barrón YET AGAIN fulfill the same function as the resident comforting watchdogs, at the Same. Damn. Time.

And lastly, but most importantly…. And it’s crucial that you’re here with me, in this moment, because….. there is, for a millisecond …. it’s literally blink and miss it …. but there is A Look. Right after adorb sib head rub, Dina throws a look Barrón’s way and he fucking looks at her back while he’s walking by steering Panchito with adorable shoulder rub. THERES A LOOK. ITS FUCKING THERE.

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AND👏🏼FUCKING👏🏼THEN👏🏼 this pinshe tonteria.

The other Arellano sisters exiting the frame to reveal BOTH OF THEM IN THE MIDDLE mad-dogging tf out of the Sinaloa camp, THE SAME gotdamn expression on their faces, RIGHT next to each other……….

*foaming at the mouth, flips table over* LIKE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING. IM SUPPOSED TO FUCKING THINK THEY ARENT DESTINED FOR EACH OTHER? RLY? LITERALLY SHOVING THE NARRATIVE SYMMETRY IN MY FACE BRANCATO?? AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BE REASONABLE??

Phew. *wipes sweat from forehead, gathers up red string, crumpled paper, and tacks*

And with that, your Honor, The People rest.

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[cosmic-day]

So, the Expanse finale made me very happy. It wasn’t perfect – there are a few shows of recent years which to me have had god-tier finales (Black Sails, The Leftovers, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, The Good Place) and if it wasn’t quite in that league, it’s partly because it felt like more of a pause than a true finale, with one problem resolved but the larger threat still very much out there. All the same, if we never get any more Expanse, I will be satisfied with this ending. More, spoilery thoughts below the cut:

Firstly, as everyone and their (strange) dog has said: there didn’t seem much point in the sub plot on Laconia unless they hope to get to tell this story later (or unless they just want everyone to read the books, which fair enough). I enjoyed the Laconia story, it was suitably creepy and reinforced the irony of the solar system tearing itself apart while a much greater threat awaits. But it was a bit of a weird choice to set up something that goes nowhere in the end.

As far as the main action is concerned, I loved how they resolved Marco’s storyline – disintegrated, defeated, wiped from existence. And I loved that it was Naomi who came up with the solution to defeat him, and I loved that – once again – it was an engineering solution, because the show doesn’t just see Naomi’s job as a line in a character bio, it’s integral to the way she thinks. Allowing Filip to escape, and Naomi never discovering that, the final speech where Naomi unknowingly explains why that doesn’t matter, was stunning and a perfect resolution. (And Dominique Tipper played all of that brilliantly, especially that harrowing and apparently improvised scream).

Also, how rare is it to see a fictional mother prioritise her own health and well being, and the welfare of others, over her child’s? Naomi loved Filip, did everything she could to save him, but when that became impossible, she not only walked away but chose her new family, and the greater good, over him. I’m struggling to think of another fictional example.

I was torn, in the lead up to the finale, between whether Naomi or Drummer should be the ultimate cause of Marco’s downfall. They both deserved it. In the end it was the right choice for it to be Naomi. I do wish Drummer had played a more integral role though – the Avasarala/Drummer scene in “Why We Fight” was iconic and will be one of those images which define the show for years, but ultimately her contribution to the fight didn’t make much difference. But she does end the show in a position of power. I do wish she had just taken it, rather than it being gifted to her by Holden. On the other hand, I did enjoy that one final moment of James “I just want a nap” Holden being horrified as he realises he's about to be landed with yet more unwanted power.

In the end, though, this is about the Rocinante and her crew, and the show left them all alive and in a good place (thankfully – I was sure Bobbie and Clarissa were goners there for a minute). The tensions between the crew in the early episodes were necessary, considering everything, but it was a joy to see the new, extended Roci crew come together as a family in the end.

I really liked how they handled Clarissa this season. I was not a fan of hers before, I admit, but this was a redemption arc done right for me – no big sacrifice, no demands for forgiveness, just Clarissa keeping her head down and doing the necessary, dirty work. And of course Naomi would respond to that. Not only is it, as she admits, what she wanted for Filip, but it’s also what she did herself after escaping from Marco the first time. So their reconciliation felt both real and earned.

For the record, though, Naomi had every right to be angry with Amos for bringing Clarissa on board without even consulting her, and I continue to be frustrated with those corners of fandom who seem to think Naomi isn’t allowed to have feelings.

Speaking of Naomi and Amos, I have always loved their relationship, and my first reaction to their  moment of reconciliation was to wish for a little more. On reflection, I think what that scene was trying to say was that they no longer need each other as much, because of the growth on both sides, and that’s a beautiful place to leave them. And Amos being to Clarissa what Naomi was to him was a really powerful end for Amos.

If I had one other minor complaint, it is that I really wanted one final scene between Amos, Holden and Naomi – the surviving, original crew. But the show ended with the Roci still flying, heading out into the black, with her family together and happy. I can’t ask more than that. Good hunting, Rocinante. I’m going to miss you.

[lokilickedme]

(Okay, I’m going to do this in probably 3 parts because it’s long)

So The Department sorta happened because I wanted to get back into a regular weekly-updating online fic because, frankly, two reasons:

1) I’m worn out/exhausted/a bit burned out from working on novels and very little of anything else for the last year and a half, and

2) I crave/need the instant validation of the comment section at AO3, which you don’t get when you write a book :/

So I called a break, put away my manuscripts for a couple months, and am just indulging in some fun writing for a little while.  And since I wanted something new (sorry WIPs, your time will come again) this is what we ended up with.

I don’t remember exactly what made me go with the police department premise.  The potential for assholery and rampant egomania, most likely?  Well, you know I love that shit when it hides something slightly more noble underneath...and I think I wanted a big ensemble cast because I just adore the dynamics that can occur in groups of disparate personalities who have known each other for a long time.  That way they interact when they know each others’ secrets and there’s that one person new to the group who isn’t in on any of the jokes?  Good stuff right there.

I do remember that the first ideas for this story came to me during the Professor Jeff’s Super Science Show at the library (yeah your guess is as good as mine on that but it happens literally every time).  But if I’m being honest, I’d say it probably had more to do with Benny Hill than anything.  I have this bad habit of sitting on the couch with my laptop on my knees, headphones on, head back, inventing scenes in my head that go along with whatever music I’m listening to.  I’ve got this one insane playlist full of goofy tunes my 7-year old has requested for staging Thomas The Tank Engine crash scenes (don’t ask) and on this particular night that’s what I was listening to because why not.  On that playlist is a 30-minute loop of the Benny Hill Theme.  And all I could see in my head was a foot chase on ice and snow between a female officer, an out of shape Chief of police, a giraffe-legged office assistant, and a probably methed-up wannabe criminal who didn’t actually do anything major but was running anyway because he was bored.  It struck me funny and I toyed with the idea of sticking it into something I already had started, because I do love me some chaotic slapstick.

So the next day I’m driving the boys home from the Super Science Show and I’ve been playing around with it in my head again, and it’s taking shape into something that I know I’m going to have to work with.  We pass the Pupuseria Virolena Salvadoran restaurant downtown, and I start laughing because I’m suddenly hearing David Tennant trying to say that in his Scottish accent.

On the spot I named him Hawk and made him Captain.  And now we have one of our characters, and by the time we pull up in our driveway ten minutes later I’ve got stuff needing to be written down right now.

(the rest is under the cut for length)

Chapter 1 - Prologue - Your Boatload of Bad Decisions Has Left The Harbor

I was so anxious to get into the story but it needed an introduction, or else Greta being in this podunk town wouldn’t have any weight.  So we’re introduced to our heroine, who isn’t so much a heroine as just a decent if slightly too self confident special division officer who had some bad luck.  It’s not elaborated on yet in the story, though it’s heavily referenced multiple times that she disobeyed an order and made the decision to continue a high speed pursuit that had been called off by her superior officer, the above-mentioned Captain Hawkins, whom Greta has something of a relationship with (yeah they’re screwing, what of it).  And in the wake of that decision, Greta’s partner is killed and she’s brought up on charges, suspended, ordered to counseling, and finally shipped off to a small town in Minnesota so she can keep working while her final fate is decided by an investigative committee back in LA.

The opening chase scene was written from things I learned when I was a kid and my dad did vehicle tweaks for the Fort Worth police department from his auto shop.  The officers used to hang out drinking Cokes and telling stories while dad made (possibly illegal) modifications to their cars.  I was there a lot, sitting under his work bench with my books and pencils, listening to everything and remembering it all.  And I thought it was so damn cool.  So here we are.  What else was I gonna do with that information?  Might as well put it to use if it’s gonna be taking up real estate in my head for all these years.

For the record, I really liked Greta’s partner Joe and hated to kill him - but we needed a catalyst, and the cheerful best friend who sings Italian arias during chases while joyfully blasting out windshields is always gonna be the loser in the goner lottery.  For once the male hero dies to further the female lead’s storyline.

Heh, take that Marvel.

Anyway, sorry Joe.  There will be more about you in later chapters, so...gone but not forgotten.

Chapter 2 - Minnewhatever

This part starts out with the last bit of backstory we need to proceed.  Hawk sending Greta off to Minnesota, a place whose name she never does remember or say correctly.  She doesn’t figure she’s actually going to be there long enough to bother learning it, but Hawk informs her that her exile is likely to last at least a year, and he gives her very little reassurance that she won’t be serving every minute of her sentence.

Greta’s feeling a little betrayed here.  She and Hawk have been sort of a thing for a while, friends and colleagues and lovers, but he’s washing his hands of the entire situation and she’s left angry and a bit bereft.  But she still figures he’ll do something to get her out of it, if she’s patient and behaves herself in the new place.

Fast forward to day one in Weemeetwa.  While drowning her aggravation in a bottle of the good stuff, Greta meets her first new acquaintance and decides to just go with the cranky fuck-it attitude that she’s been harboring since the incident, gets shitfaced, and goes home with the guy.  This might have been a dual-purpose shag; Greta’s still feeling betrayed and abandoned by Hawk, so it’s a screw-you that he’ll never find out about - but that doesn’t stop it from feeling good in a vengeful sort of way.  Plus it’s cold and she’s alone and the guy - Andy, a tall sweet longhaired cutiepie with an Irish accent - is all too willing to buy her a drink and take her home for some cuddles.

In the morning Greta wakes up in a strange place full of groaning regret and ends up giving Andy a ride to the station.  She doesn’t count on seeing him again, so there’s no breath wasted on goodbyes.

Chapter 3 -  A Logging Truck, A Mountain, and A Blonde Walk Into A Bar

Now we meet most of the department.  Creeley, a gruff roughhouser with a rude streak forty miles wide, Sarah, the only other female in the department and possibly the only person alive who can keep the boys under control, Kevin, the quiet dispatch agent with an impressive mountain impersonation skill, and finally (for the moment) Chief, the slightly too good-looking and highly put-upon boss of them all.

I knew I wanted Tom Hiddleston to play Chief Tommy Davis.  This is Kong Skull Island-era Hiddleston crossed with The Night Manager, with a handful of extra pounds around the middle and a frustrated sigh that goes on forever.  He’s meant to be an ex hockey player who was waylaid on his way to the major leagues, so he’s strong and sturdy, but an injury benched him years ago and a career in small-town law enforcement has put him a bit to pasture.  Middle aged, somewhere between 40 and 45.  He’s got some stuff in his past but he’s happy now, for the most part, just living his life watching over the town.

Jason Momoa is Bobby Creeley, for obvious reasons.  I knew I wanted a rowdy, rude, loudmouthed team member that’s always crossing everyone, but who everyone knows will be there no matter what if anything goes down.  He’s instantly Greta’s nemesis from the moment she walks in the door.  Gigantic and shaggy with a permanently amused nature and a fear of literally nothing, he’s simultaneously everyone’s best friend and worst enemy.

Sarah Lancashire has been finding her way into a lot of my fics lately as side characters, so it’s no surprise she ended up here as Sarah Pearl.  Steely, tough, and highly immune to the idiocy around her, Sarah is the worn out voice of common sense that the department is running perilously short on.  She’s also my first and foremost girl crush, and I’ll admit right now that I wrote an AU ending almost immediately that involved Sarah and Greta ending up together.  It would be natural to assume Sarah would fall into the default role of mom to the group, but there’s a whole lot of oh hell nope wrapped around that trope.  She would set them all on fire if anyone would let her have some matches, but Chief made a rule against that a long damn time ago.

Dave Bautista has been hanging around the back door of my muse stable for the longest, just minding his own business and waiting his turn, but I never really had any place to stick him.  Well Drax, your time has come baby.  I chose him to play Kevin Saylor based on his GoTG scene in which he tries to convince the crew he’s invisible.  And that’s Kevin, in a nutshell.  Huge and intimidating but quiet and intensely matter-of-fact in manner, he’s in charge of dispatch and immediately inspires Greta’s hatred of using the radio.

My first (and really only) faceclaim for Greta Morley was Zoe Saldana, but I waffled briefly for a couple of weeks, trying to cater to a few readers who told me they wanted to imagine themselves in the role.  I planned to stick with that, and I tried, I promise I did.  But every time Greta opened her mouth I heard Zoe, and by the time she went on her less than fleet-footed pursuit of Wilson with the longsuffering Andy by her side, she was locked in.  Greta’s harboring some serious regret and raw emotional wounds from her not too distant past, and some time out in the American Midwest should be a much needed recovery sabbatical.  Should be.  But isn’t gonna.

Speaking of Andy...Andrew Hozier-Byrne was and is the only person I ever considered for the role of Andy Burns.  Too tall, too clumsy, too cute, too sweet, just a whole bunch of too everything - he was perfect for the role and I may or may not have written it exclusively for him.  Okay yeah, I wrote it exclusively for him.  Andy’s the local cryptid, nobody really knows a lot about him.  He may or may not be a drug dealer.  He may or may not be officially employed by the police department.  He may or may not be Irish or hypoglycemic or a blackout drunk or as goofy as he seems.  Nobody really knows, and to be honest nobody really cares, because if you need it done Andy can do it...if he can remember you asked him to do it.

So Greta has arrived, for better or for worse.  Cree immediately starts in with the sexist remarks and butchering her name, a favor she returns by embarking on what will become a neverending trail of obliterated mis-renderings of the town’s name.  Creeley and Kevin kick off another of many running gags by arguing over whether or not anyone knew she was coming, and before things can get too stupid, Chief makes his first appearance.

And now things start to get interesting.

To be continued at chapter 4, Randy Andy and The Chief of Weemeetwa

@whatevervivie

[willowdragon]

Woo so here we go... don’t expect anything remotely intelligent in this one since I’m half way through a string of eight night shifts 😂😂

Ooo okay, so first off I’m immediately pissed off by Netflix’s blurb for the pilot ‘When Emma Swan is visited by the 10 year old boy she gave up for adoption long ago, she returns him to his foster mother in a town called Storybrooke’

FOSTER MOTHER?!?!?! 🤬🤬🤬

Okay... cup of tea to calm down... here we go...

The music, Josh looking all swish and handsome on his steed and scenery all immediately make me smile 😍

Ginny is so beautiful in that first scene, the ‘I will always find you’ is as nauseatingly sweet as I remember.

It’s kind of both amusing and worrying that she looked prettier in her coffin than at her own Wedding.

EVIL QUEEEEEENNNNNNN 🤩🤩🤩

I mean, my intention was to go into this rewatch fairly neutral. But damn, from the first second we meet Lana I am a goner. The music, the framing, even the silly walk and drag queen like costume. She’s just every bit as EPIC as I remember. When she said “my gift to you is this happy, happy day” I literally squealed.

Never been a fan of the ‘Charming Sword Throw’ but I appreciate that it’s there to spoon feed to the audience that The Evil Queen has magic, like the silly walk.

TINY HENRY ❤️❤️❤️

(Deep comedy voice) THE RED DRESS 😍

Seriously Jmo looks awesome in that dress. (I just got the lyrics for You’re Welcome in my head. “I know it’s a lot, the hair, the bod!!”)

I’ll give props where props are due. Jmo is brilliant in that scene. Such a good intro to Emma. And did I mention the dress?

I’ve always loved the tiny scene with the candle. I mean it is classic, but watching it again. Emma is so vulnerable and the lighting is lovely. Very beautiful.

Henry is a cheeky little so and so though eh? Just waltzing in! Though I suppose, that’s the least of his grounding offences right about now.

And drinking from the bottle?! Please... you know we are gonna find out later that you were raised better than that young man!! Tut tut

I can imagine all the swirly panicky stomach feelings that Emma is going through right now, poor woman!

(Hey look, I’m not even a third of the way through yet and I’ve already written more than I thought I would!!)

Henry is smart, and confident (a bit rude) and sassy. I like him! (Please remind me how is Regina a horrible, abusive mother again? She raised a pretty awesome boy right there. A little entitled, but hey, he’s 10. I’ll give him a pass for now)

And back to a castle.... wait... is Snow still wearing her wedding dress?!?! No.. really? Maybe they are just a bit short on cash so she had it repurposed.

Bad Snow wig alert!! Dear Lord. Should have picked up on the ‘she poisoned an apple cause she thought I was prettier than her’ lie right then!!

Josh is so swoony 😍😍

And I’m totally bouncing around now because this time around I know what ‘him’ they are talking about!!

“Oh kid, you’ve got problems” “Yep, and you’re gonna fix ‘em” 😂😂

R-R-R-Rumple!!!! Again, right from the second I met him I loved him. Same as Regina.

Snow is just a tad impulsive really huh? Snow No! Snow yesss!

God Bobby is just amazing.

Apparently Emma thinks it’s perfectly normal to have electrical lines explode around you. Whilst next to a large metal thing... in the rain. I’d of been out of there so fricking fast!

Is Red wearing clothes right up to her chin so the Ruby outfit is more shocking? lol

Oh and yay. Blue 🤨🤨

One of the downsides of rewatching this is that I immediately snarl at Geppetto. He’s a dick.

And now we meet the Mayor... not a fan of the dress but I love the hair (and I couldn’t help but notice that when Lana grabs Jared in for a hug he actually does properly hug her back despite the scene calling for him to be all “I found my REAL Mom” hehe I thought that was very cute)

Regina looks so devastated when he’s all mean to her. Bless.

FIRST SWAN QUEEN MOMENT (I realise I’m not doing a great job at this ‘going into this neutral’ malarkey)

(But COME ON. Emma totally looks at Regina like ‘Wow, she’s hot!)

So glad they let Jamie Dornan use his normal accent later on. S’all im gonna say.

Lana really does have such pretty eyes. And Jmo has such gorgeous cheekbones... *sigh*

Hey! I don’t remember Emma calling Henry a sneaky bastard! That must have been cut the first time I watched.

Did we ever get a clear answer to the random wolf thing? I guess I’ll find out as I watch more... 😂😂

Josh is so swoony 😍😍

And seriously... they may be nauseating, but it’s hard to imagine that they weren’t even really together at this point. Such chemistry.

I’ll give them this. Grumpy doesn’t really change from the beginning eh?

And... serious question... was a weird camera filter put on from hitting Storybrooke? The colour looks quite drained. Makes Emma look a bit sick.

Hehehee... second swan queen moment. Depending on who you are, that look from Emma is either ‘Oh shit... it’s Henry’s HOT mom’ or ‘Oh shit... It’s Henry’s mom’ what do you think?

Regina’s ultimate revenge. Cursing Snow into frumpy clothes and school boy hair.

Awesome eyebrows though Ginny.

I liked the searching look from Mary Margaret to Emma. Never noticed that before.

Clever boy?!? He’s not clever, he’s a little bloody thief!!

MM puts her foot in it there huh? But to be fair, not wrong. As the child of someone who was adopted. You do always wonder. Just... maybe... a bit of tact would have been good there.

Happy endings and Hope.

I LOVE the Evil Queens music!!!! Well done music guy.

Oh Snows face when she realises they have to send Emma away alone 😢😢

And now for the BEST scene in the episode. I’d go for maybe one of my top ten fave scenes perhaps ever. Charming fighting to the wardrobe with baby Emma. I love it. He’s so dashing and manly, yet sensitive and... it makes my kinsey scale shift just a little.

Josh is so swoony 😍😍

Henry is a perceptive kid.

Jared and Jmo were brilliant in this scene. It flows really well, which can’t be easy for a tiny actor.

Poor Snow trying to kiss Charming back to her. Bless.

Ahhhh the first appearance of ‘the vein’

The ‘curse vortex’ thing always makes me laugh now because I just see Lana going ‘holy shit, is it meant to be this high?’ Hahaha

‘Somewhere absolutely horrible.... with indoor plumbing and heating. Access to better medical care and electricity...’

Are we sure Lana didn’t know if Regina was awake in the pilot? Cos I’m seeing tiny things that I never noticed before that makes me think she did know...

Pour example, the tiny reaction to Emma saying she made a wish. Watch it, you’ll see what I mean.

Hehehe. I love this scene. I know ‘other’ people don’t particularly like how Regina is with Emma but come on!!! She panicking!! She sooo scared of losing her child. Her terror comes out as anger. Some people are like that and I think in this case, it’s very understandable.

Okaaaay, in the little snippet with Regina holding the book she does look mighty scary.

Josh even looks swoony in a hospital gown ❤️❤️

Oooo and this is supposed to be the moment Rumple ‘woke up’? (I’d forgotten how skinny Bobby was at the start!! 😂😂)

THE KEY HAS A SWAN ON IT!!! How did I not notice that?!?

And when the clock moves and Henry gets that cheeky little grin that so adorable and boom. The end.

Well!!! This has been fun!!! Now I must go to sleep... wasn’t expecting this to take me 2.5 hours haha

Apologies for how long this is!! But what have we learnt? Well, that Josh is swoony. I’ve missed Emma soooo much. Henry is totally a little brat. Lana and Bobby are the best thing since sliced bread. The only time Ginny has decent hair is when she’s in a coffin and that yeah I totally still see Swan Queen right from the pilot. Just like the first time. Ta da!