David and Mary Margaret must really love each other,
because they have been going to the diner at the same time, every day, in order
to run into each other, even though that time is near the crack of dawn. You
just know Mary Margaret has to get up an extra hour to do her makeup and pick
out her outfit. This sounds awful, unless they are morning people. If they are,
that’s further proof that they are meant for each other. Emma kindly points out
to Mary that she is stalking a married man. Mary then runs into Catherine
at a drugstore where Catherine is buying a pregnancy test! Uh oh!
Later, Mary Margaret finds a lost dove separated from his
flock. She brings the dove to the pet shelter, where David works. The vet tells
her that if the dove doesn’t find its flock before the flock moves on, it
will be depressed forever. Mary goes into the woods to look for the flock so
that she can release the dove into the flock before a storm hits Storybrooke.
She almost falls off a cliff and David, who was following her, saves her. He
wanted to make sure she didn’t get caught in the storm. When the storm hits,
they break into an empty cabin. They tell each other that they still have
feelings for each other. Then Mary’s conscience gets in her way, and she
tells David that his wife might be preggers.
The thing is, David only has memories of his feelings for
Catherine (which were planted by Regina) and real feelings for Mary. When David
goes home, Catherine tells him that she is not pregnant and convinces him to go
to marital counseling with Dr. Hopper. David decides to go to Granny’s at a
different time so that he can avoid Mary. The trouble is, Mary has the same
plan and they still end up running into each other. David tells Mary that his
wife isn’t pregnant. Weirdly, this changes everything and they start kissing on
the side of the road….right where Regina can see them. And she does see them.
We understand that pregnancy might strengthen a man’s commitment, but it
shouldn’t be the deciding factor, either way. We don’t know how we feel about
David and Mary right now. Mostly we just hate Regina for putting them in this
position, which is good, since she's the villain.
Henry goes up to the stranger who came to town last week
and talks to him. Regina wants to know his story, so she asks Emma to check the guy out. Emma refuses until Regina says that the stranger was
talking to Henry. Emma finds the stranger at Granny’s where he secures a drink
with Emma at a future date in exchange for showing her what is in the box he is
hauling around. Inside the box is a typewriter, because he’s a writer. Does
that mean he will have the power to alter Storybrooke or the fairytale world?
Will he be able to re-write parts of the story or help the town inhabitants
discover things about themselves? We know there is a reason he’s a writer and
we can’t wait to see how it is used.
In the Magical Kingdom, Snow White can’t get Prince James
off her mind, even though he is marrying Princess Abigail soon. She is hiding
out, alone, in the woods, and even though Red Riding Hood sometimes visits,
Snow is going a little crazy from all the solitude. Red Riding Hood tells Snow
that Snow could go to Rumpelstiltskin to take care of her love problem. Rumpy
takes a piece of Snow’s hair as his price for a potion that would make her
forget the prince. We’re pretty sure this is going to come back and bite Snow
later… Before Snow can drink the potion, James sends her a message that says
something like, “Come to the castle and stop my wedding and I’ll know you love
me and I won’t marry the princess.” We don’t remember the exact words. Sue us.
As a Taylor Swift song about stopping a wedding ensconces
itself into our heads, Snow rushes to the castle, but a guard throws her into
the castle dungeons for trespassing. There, she meets Grumpy and Grumpy’s
brother, Stealthy, breaks them both out of jail. In the escape, Stealthy dies.
Not stealthy ENOUGH, eh? Apparently there's a reason he wasn't in the Disney version of this story ... Snow saves Grumpy’s life. He gets away and Snow is
taken to see the king. The king tells Snow that Snow is going to need to break
up with James. If Snow doesn’t tell James that she doesn’t love him, the king
will just kill James. Then James will be some sort of martyr and the kingdom
will be saved anyway. The king doesn’t want James marrying Abigail and then
pining over Snow. That would kill the marriage and Abigail would go tell her
daddy that it was the prince’s fault.
Snow obeys the king and James is upset. Snow leaves the
castle and meets the seven dwarfs who offer her a place to stay. They are her
new family. Grumpy convinces Snow not to take Rumpy’s potion, but to endure the pain of lost love instead.
The next day, Grumpy rushes to Snow and tells her that James called the wedding
off anyway. He is coming for Snow. Unfortunately, Snow doesn’t know what Grumpy
is talking about. She took Rumpy’s potion. Like in that sappy-looking upcoming
movie, The Vow (that we are totally going to see and love), James is going to
have to make Snow fall in love with him all over again. Since they seem to love
each other on sight, that probably won’t be too hard.
We thought the Storybrooke plotline was a little
ridiculous. Saving doves doesn’t interest us. Neither do cheaters and false pregnancy
tests. The fairy tale world part, however, was worth watching and nicely romantic.
We’re excited about the stranger. Despite ourselves, we are excited that David
and Mary seem to be unabashedly together, for now. At least until Regina ruins
it. It’s time for a Ruby/Red Riding Hood backstory, no?
Episode grade: B
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