Subtext Recap: Once Upon a Time 2.21 – Second Star to the Right

– OR – Emma and Regina Bicker and Stand Near Each Other Looking Sexy **** YADA YADA SPOILERS **** Regardless of the fact that Pan has had more to do in the first two episodes than most of the core cast, I am still liking this team-search for Henry thing. Seriously, Emma and Regina are just…

Nothing says Happy Holidays like a little misery. I’ve been told that I love this next special because it’s so sad most of the way through. It even has a title song with such uplifting lyrics as: “Nestor was a donkey who seldom laughed or played ‘Cause no one ever used him in the stable…

Wow, what an interesting title for something fairy tale-themed. Why does it sound so familiar? Well, since that’s a mystery I shall never solve, I guess on with it. So, as always, I Hulu-ed this episode to go back through scene by scene, so I could analyze for hidden subtext and watch Lana Parrilla’s hair…

So, at some point in the first week of this year, I said to myself, “Hey, just because you haven’t set another goal that you won’t meet for the new year doesn’t mean your first post of 2013 is going to be a Once Upon a Time subtext recap.” Hrm. Anyway – SPOILERS yada yada…

Sometimes you don’t realize how much something has been a part of your life until you end up crying like a baby at a Judds concert. Crying like a baby, that’s Shawna’s descriptor. I thought of it more as hysterical sobbing I thought was never going to let up, but, praise be to all gods, lasted…