I’m back again with my Once Upon A Time parallels to Byler/Stranger Things. Specifically Byler.
Season 2 episode 22. The world is about to end. Emma is trying to convince Hook to be on their side to save the world and to help their plan.
Not only does Emma say, “you, me, we understand each other”, she also says that the plan “may be crazy, and it may be stupid, but we’re doing it anyway.”
Need I also mention that Emma and Hook end up together?
Did anyone else notice that the song that is playing in S3 Ep.11 when we are shown Emma and Henry’s new life in New York is the same song that is playing when we are first introduced to Neal in New York in S2
FAVOURITE PARALLELS TRIBUTE VID- REGINA’S TRUE LOVES’ DYING IN HER ARMS
Song: ‘A Thousand Years’ by Christina Perri
(Argh! For some reason, the video isn’t staying perfectly in time with the music now that I’ve uploaded it onto here. That’s annoying. But anyways, I hope you like this, I worked my ass off making it.)
This is one of the saddest parallels ever and the only reason it’s my favourite is because it’s a perfect example of how far Regina has come.
We all know that her first love, Daniel, was one of the many catalysts in Regina becoming the Evil Queen (more specifically, his death was). And then having Robin, her soulmate, being brought into her life years later she not only becomes a better person, but grows to believe in the possibility of love again.
It’s really a beautiful full-circle story:
Daniel’s love breaks her, and she becomes the Evil Queen. But Robin’s love puts her back together again, and she becomes Regina. The Good Queen.
The most heartbreaking part of this is that both men die because they love Regina.
Daniel loved and died for her so that she could grow into the woman Robin fell in love with and sacrificed himself for.
There's no logical explanation for how much i love characters being "the" something.
Like, even when it's just a title or nickname people gave them, like "the Mist Warrior" or something - it just sounds really cool. Also, it comes with a reputation, it means their actions made them famous for a specific thing. These characters are always interesting.
But it's even more interesting when it's something that's passed on, when there's always exactly one person (or creature) with that name in the world.
Like the Dark One. Or the Distortion.
These aren't just titles, they come with being a specific thing. When you become that thing, you're still the person you were before to some extent, but you also become a completely different being. It might be the power that corrupts you, or just your new nature forcing you to be a certain way. Either way, you will probably become almost unrecognizable to the people who knew you before that, even if your (currently visible) physical form hasn't changed. Because to some extent, you are now also that thing, a thing that was so many people before you, which obviously also impacts you.
Who even are you then? Are you the person or the creature?