S1E7: "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

[Jade]

Talk about the last episode before the winter break here!

[Jade]

Okay, more random thoughts...

I cannot get enough of Graham's accent. Why has he been criminally underused to this point? I cannot resist a hot accent. I do have a bit of a hard time feeling for him in this scene, with his regret as regards Emma. Maybe if we'd actually SEEN the two of them together for any significant period before. But since we haven't, I'm left wondering why he's so upset to have been caught by her.

Snow and the Queen comforting each other? Mind...blown. But Lana's really rocking that huge collar look. Some women would be dwarfed by that look, but she actually isn't overpowered by it. She must have really good posture. Oh, the Queen is playing her! Well...fair enough. Mind no longer blown.

Interesting, though, that the Evil Queen's hatred of Snow doesn't come from the King's death, as was somewhat assumed.

Huntsman crying over a dead deer? If this is the guy with no heart, then I think the Queen misjudged.

What was with the wolf's red eye? Was his eye bloody? Was mine? What the heck? Oh, it's supposed to be that way. "Blood red" and "black as night" I'm pretty sure are from the fairy tale, right?

Regina's hair looks too good for me to believe that Graham is any good in bed. Sorry, but that's how it is. If your hair can be brushed after without an hour's worth of work, you're just not doing it right.

[Jade]

Back to thoughts!

Way to assume about the flowers, Emm...oh, they're from Dr. Whale? Well done throwing them away. And I notice Mary didn't rescue the flowers right aw...ONE NIGHT STAND??? Mental image scarring!

I totally thought Mary was about to call Emma a w****. Instead of that there's a wall.

"That wall of yours may keep out pain, but it may also keep out love..."? Okay, since when did Mary Margaret start channeling my mother from the past few months? And they can both bite me.

Mr. Gold "gardening" in a suit cracked my s*** UP! That said...you're a sheriff and you see a guy "gardening" with a shovel and gloves in a SUIT. How are you NOT INTENSELY SUSPICIOUS THAT HE'S SECRETLY A MASS MURDERING SOCIOPATH!?!?!?

Aw, I like the wolf. Now I don't want anything bad to happen to Graham. Not because I care about his love life with Emma or Regina. But just because it would make the wolf sad. Yes, that's how I roll.

[Jade]

The Queen has a heart collection? Sweetie...take up scrapbooking or something.

that helmet he's wearing is just silly looking. I do like that Snow is smart enough to realize what's going on. Even before she had to become "street smart" so to speak to avoid getting killed, she was no dummy.

Emma's aim blows.

Regina telling Emma she's incapable of feeling anything is the height of irony. But I wonder...well, I guess I'll wait before I speculate on whether Regina was trying to save Graham (if he dies) by warning Emma off. Thinking that perhaps if she could stop him from remembering he wouldn't have to die. But that's assuming that 1) he is the one who dies, and 2) Regina kills him.

The Huntsman doesn't rock the Emo Tears of Man Pain like Jensen Ackles does. Mmmm...Emo Tears of Man Pain.

"You kissed my mom???" Possibly the first line of Henry's that cracked me up. Just because his delivery was so full of disgust, that kids feel when they think about their parents kissing.

Please tell me there's no picture of the Queen ripping out the Huntsman's heart. Or that's the most disgustingly graphic fairy tale book ever.

The Queen has a VAULT of hearts?!? SERIOUSLY, TAKE UP SCRAPBOOKING!!!

When the little kid who thinks you're secretly a fairy tale character is the only one who's making any sense, you're having a seriously jacked up day.

"Feel that. That is your heart. And then go take a drug test, Crazy McBatSh**Hottie."

How slow were the Sheriff and Emma running around that corner to get to the front of the vault? I mean, the wolf was barely loping along, and they sort of half-stumble almost around the corner and look around in shock that the wolf was gone. They were moving so slow that the wolf could have avoided them if he'd crawled away. And maybe taken a nap along the way.

[Jade]

Last of the random thoughts:

I can't decide if it's pathetic or just makes me sad that I ramble to myself during episodes. It likely is pathetic.

What is with the silly curls on the Queen's forehead? They're incredibly distracting. They're clearly intentional. But why? Why would you do this?

"It's not me, it's you." Harsh. But kinda made me laugh. "I'd rather have nothing than settle for less." Word. I don't mean in the sense of this particular show, but I feel like more people should embrace that realization.

Regina's gotta stop playing the victim card. It doesn't suit her. Even when it's just playacting, it doesn't suit her to act like she's a victim. She's definitely a woman in charge of her own destiny. I don't want to hear her saying, "Why are you being so mean to me, Emma?" ever again. I want to hear, "You're standing in my way? Prepare to be DESTROYED. I will come down on you so hard, you'll think it's god's own justice raining down on you. And when I've finally taken everything away from you and you're begging me to kill you just so the pain of your loneliness ends...I MAY show mercy and do what you ask. Then again, I probably won't because the sound of your tears may just amuse me that much."

Yeah, I wondered why they didn't try to move the casket. Do I watch too much Buffy or something?

Was that supposed to be a heart in her hand, that she ripped out of the Huntsman's chest? Or a piece of the Triforce? That was a little silly looking.

While it sucks that the Sheriff is going to die (obviously, at this point), I imagine it would be distracting to kiss someone and keep having flashes. Nobody mention "Dreams Echoed" here as I'm trying to make a point.

Okay, so...why did they introduce the Sheriff, only to write him out like this? They didn't do ANYTHING with his romance with Emma until this episode. Was it just to show that Regina is evil and bitter? We already knew that.

I didn't come down one way or another on the Regina/Graham ship - in either universe - until this episode. The fact that she ripped out his heart and told him that he had to do everything she said or she'd kill him by squeezing his heart and then said, "Take him to my bedchamber!" Yeah...I'm going to come down firmly on the fact that there was coercion going on there.

So I guess the main question is...how will the Sheriff's life - what we saw of it - and now his death drive the story moving forward? What impact will it have on the future? I can't imagine it was just a waste of time.

And when all is said and done, I'm rather sorry to see him go. Or to hear no more of him, really, because I could listen to that accent all DAY. And no more of his naked chest or...

Man, this is a cruel, cruel show. I disapprove.

[blackbird]

Ugh seriously these episodes just killed me. It tore out my heart and put in it in a vault… just kidding..…

First David goes back to Katherine and now they do an entire 59 minutes of building up a character and getting me to like him and then they kill him.

I knew they were going to kill him, it was kind of obvious, but I was still irrationally holding out hope that maybe he wouldn’t need a heart to live. I’m aware of the impossibility of this, but I’m still the girl who thinks that Jack might not die this time around when I turn on Titanic. I obviously have problems….

So Mary Margaret and Dr. Whale had a one night stand *sigh* I was hoping they weren’t going to do this, but if they are let’s make him less smarmy. The flowers were a nice start, but I am still suspicious of you Dr. Whale. He seems to be in conspiracy with the Queen (maybe she’s got his heart too)

I’m dying to know what secret Snow White didn’t keep of the Queen is...

As for why Graham didn’t seem suspicious of Mr. Gold gardening in a suit…Graham never seemed that good of a Sheriff to me. Tracker and hunter sure, but sheriff…not his forte.

A vault filled with hearts…that’s not a cry for help at all. I don’t think keeping the heart of a man and basically forcing him to choose sex with you or death isn’t a cry for help either.

As for the killing of Graham I just don’t see the point of getting me to like him as much as I did in this episode. I mean a man raised by wolves and cries when he kills animals, and has some issues that could have been explore and developed…that’s interesting.
Plus I admit I was ready to ship Emma/Graham during this episode, even though I knew he was going to die, I liked where there relationship could have headed. They have the whole abandoned by their parent’s, they both now hate Regina…

I missed seeing Prince Charming this episode, and was happy that Rumpelstiltskin didn’t make a deal with anybody this episode, although Graham made a deal with the Queen. This fairytale world just really needs to stop making deals.

For those of you who would like to see why they killed off the huntsmen here is a link to an article where they talk to the executive producers

blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/12/once-upon-a-time-eps-talk-sheriff-graham-rumpelstiltskins-backstory-and-more.html

(Is posting a link like this allowed, sorry if it isn’t?)

I don’t necessarily think even after their explanation that the death of Graham was necessary, but maybe I’m still a little bitter that they made me like him and then killed him. I get a sacrifice needs to happen, but I think they could’ve chosen someone else. Seems cruel.

Also like Jade I will miss the accent and shirtlessness very much.

[anmei]

I could listen to Graham all day and all NIGHT! Curse the Queen!

[shalimarfox80]

So is Graham really not coming back?

[Jade]

They said he may show up in flashbacks. Though I'm wondering if he really would. What else do they have to tell of his story?

I wonder how things would have played out if they'd managed to get the permission for him to be Robin Hood. Would they have let him live/stick around longer, if so? That would have been awesome.

[defyingravity]

I really thought at one point he was both The Huntsman and The Wolf (perhaps a werewolf )

I knew it was going to happen, but I am starting to feel slighted - we got some really good Grahamina and Gremma moments last night, I wanted more.

So in my little AU-verse, Regina just "didn't have the heart" to carry out the act - and no I don't mean literally.