Which is exactly the type of cruel torture that Regina wanted to inflict on anyone who would help her nemesis. Regina appears after Eric leaves and relishes that Eric left without even knowing that Ariel truly wanted to be with him.
ONCE UPON A TIME ARIEL MOVIE
In a twist that incorporates the original movie Ariel has paid for her deal with Regina with her ability to speak. While he waits just a little bit longer (is he implying that women are always late? That does seem like something he would say right?), Ariel swims up and ……her voice is gone. Snow forgives her though and tells her one last time to go to him which Ariel does. She mocks Ariel (loved her line about there being “no second chances” which is clearly a reaction to her encounter with Tink) and is all set to leave with a captive Snow when Ariel returns with her dinglehopper and stabs The Evil Queen, letting her and Snow swim off. Ariel springs it on Snow (both the plan and a bracelet that makes her a mermaid) and Regina makes her presence known. She offers her a deal that would give her legs while providing Snow with a fish tail, the escape from Regina that Snow has been wanting, warning however that magic always comes with….well you know. Snow insists Ariel meets him and tells him the truth about her being a mermaid, but Ariel needs to step outside and think things over. She can’t commit, because of the whole “no-legs thing” and he leaves the invite open by telling her where to meet him and when. He tells her that he is leaving to jet set as all privileged young people inevitably do and invites her along (again with the fast-moving friendships). She gets Ariel to approach Eric and he recognizes her from the near-death experience and his dreams and makes some comments about how he can do whatever he wants due to being better than everyone and they dance… pretty steadily on her new legs in my opinion. I mean she just met her and is running her life. Anyway Snow really is pushy with the giving advice to relative strangers.
There, we meet Eric and have probably the saddest diversion from the source tale: it’s not a dinglehopper anymore, it’s a trident. They get her a dress that looks a lot like something you would see a female (or male if they so choose) wearing as Ariel on Halloween, and are off to the ball. Snow, who is all about honesty then and now, encourages her to go and tell him. Since Ariel saved him from his shipwreck, she has wanted to talk to him and be a part….well you know. I guess Eric, who is the prince of a kingdom (I’m assuming the one that Hook was in service to), holds a ball once a year where mermaids can walk on land -in the name of the mythical Ursula- and are invited (we just don’t know our mermaid mythology). I am starting to think that Snow is just one big hippie at this point in her life, just traveling where the wind blows and meeting new folks along the way…like a fairytale Alexander Supertramp.Īriel fills us in on a lot of stuff we wouldn’t know because we have yet to really encounter merfolk, aside from seeing them VERY VERY angry. Instead of giving herself up she jumps, which means she was ready to die before ever letting Regina have the satisfaction of capturing her alive?Īriel (who has a thing for saving people it would seem) rescues her and brings her to shore and the two hit it off right away. Snow is on the run and ends up in a situation Henry found himself in for the season premiere: running through the woods has led straight to a cliff. I mean seriously, they could just always have an episode where Snow runs into new characters that are just waiting to be introduced into the mythology of the show. We opened very quickly with yet another scene from what appears to be an infinite number of days between when Snow went on the run from Regina and when she is fed the poison apple.
Everything came out and we are now going to be dealing with the consequences of so much being brought to light, as well as the recent reversions to treachery on the part of an excitingly scary reprise of two of the most dastardly villains working together. This week a lot of secrets were spilled too as Snow’s somewhat annoying oft-repeated message dominated thematically. However we all had to have known that there would be changes to the mythology we had grown accustomed to… it IS Once Upon A Time after all and twists are the name of the game. Or that we would be off and running so quickly. While it was no secret that Disney’s most amphibious princess was going to be front and center this week on Once Upon A Time (the episode bears her name after all), I don’t think many of us would have thought that we would be thrust into the middle of the story that we all know by heart.
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