There aren’t enough words for me to explain how excited I am for the new episode of Once Upon A Time. Skin Deep will be focusing on the tale of Beauty and the Beast and features LOST’s Emilie de Ravin as Belle. Or in this case, Beauty? Here are some sneak peeks of the episode (airing Sunday on ABC) where you can see the debut of Rumply as the Beast. He’s spinning on his wheel! Emilie needs to work on her accent though. I wasn’t aware Belle was Australian.
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The good news? Once Upon A Time will be taking on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. The bad news? We have to wait to see the epic episode until the show returns on February 12th. LOST’s Emilie de Ravin will be guest starring as Belle. As for the Beast? Look and see:
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Have a seat on your magic carpet everyone and get ready to learn about Sidney’s time as the Genie of the lamp! We’re also about to learn just how The Evil Queen got out of her marriage to Snow’s father. Get ready Genie. You aint never had a friend like her.
The Genie’s lamp is discovered by Snow’s father. He is so happy in his own life that he uses his wishes to grant the Genie’s freedom. His second wish is to transfer his last wish over to the Genie. Wow. What a nice guy. He leaves to stay with the King in his kingdom where he meets The Queen. Trapped in an unhappy marriage she’s willing to kill herself to escape it. When the King suspects that the Queen has been unfaithful to him, her father begs the Genie to help set her free. He offers to kill the King for her. He succeeds and happily goes to be with the Queen forever. Unfortunately, she’s about to rain on his parade. She set him up for the murder and was using him the whole time. Bitch is EVIL. He refuses to let her get away and uses his last wish to be with her forever. Fine print? He’s now trapped in a mirror.
Sidney goes to Emma wanting help revealing Regina’s corrupt ways. Emma doesn’t agree until Sidney tells her Regina hired him to follow her and Henry. She knew about Henry’s play castle all along and knowingly tore it down to hurt him. Oh yeah. She tore it down. And also? Henry’s book is now missing. They bug Regina’s office and find out that she’ll be paying off Rumply in a secret place in the woods for an unknown reason. While driving there, Emma’s brakes go out.
They realize she’s been using city money to build something in the woods and go to a town meeting to expose her. She reveals that she’s building a playground for the children to play safely thus, making Emma look like an idiot. Who didn’t see that one coming? And can I just say, that is the lamest playground I have ever seen. For 50 grand they could get some swings or a jungle gym or something sheesh. It is then revealed that Sidney has been working for Regina all along and is now lying to Emma. He is the one who cut her brakes. Gasp. Jerk!
In other news, Mary and David are now carrying on their affair with romantic picnics in the woods. I can’t say I’m thrilled with this development. Cheating isn’t very romantic even if they’re meant to be together. He should break it off with his wife first. As for the whereabouts of Henry’s book? It is now in the hands of the Mysterious Stranger.
Is someone else finally ready to stand up to Regina? On tonight’s Once Upon A Time, one of Regina’s loyal followers has had enough of her dictatorship. Find out who in these great sneak peeks of tonight’s episode: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree.
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David and Mary are still struggling with their feelings for each other. Neither wants to admit it to the other but their love is eternal. Mary goes to the diner at 7:15 every morning no matter what because she knows that David is always there at that time. Little does she know, that’s the only reason he goes there. Unfortunately for her, her hopes just got shoved way back down to the ground. While in the store shopping for jumbo Apollo bars, she bumps into David’s wife and her new pregnancy test.
Snow is trying to forget Charming in Fairy Tale world as well. She goes to Rumply for a potion to cure her heartbreak. In return, he asks for a piece of her hair. Hmm. What is he up to with that? Charming’s evil father is forcing him to forget about Snow and put on a happy face and marry for the good of his kingdom. I’ve always hated you Charles Widmore. Charming sends Snow a letter telling her to come see him before the wedding if she still cares about him. She races over but is caught by the King’s guards and thrown in a cell with Grumpy.
In Storybrooke, Mary finds a pigeon separated from his flock. She makes it her mission to return it to its friends so he’s not lonely for the rest of his life. She refuses any help from David and ends up caught in a rainstorm dangling off the edge of a cliff. David is there to save the day and pulls her to safety. They dry off in an empty cabin and both confess they still have feelings for each other. But David is married so it’s tough noogies. Then Mary lets slip that she saw his wife with a pregnancy test. Oops. David learns that his wife isn’t pregnant and Mary and David kiss. Yay! Get a divorce already will you?
Stealthy, the 8th dwarf, appears to let Grumpy and Snow out of their cells so they can run to freedom. Stealthy is killed and Snow sacrifices herself for Grumpy. The King threatens to kill Charming if Snow doesn’t go and break his heart. She does as she’s told and leaves to go live with the 7 remaining dwarfs. Grumpy refuses to let her take the potion to rid her of her pain. When Charming calls off his wedding, Grumpy goes to tell Snow of the news only to discover she had taken the potion anyway.
Regina is disturbed when she doesn’t recognize the mysterious new stranger that has come to town and is even more disturbed when she sees him talking to Henry. She demands that Emma look into him for her. Emma discovers that he’s a big, bad, writer. And his mystery box is filled with nothing but a typewriter. Who is he? Did he write Henry’s book?