Once Upon a Time, Season 7 is a blatant, unnecessary reboot.
Season 1: Fairytale characters are living in our world, in the town of Storybrooke, with wiped memories and new identities.
Season 7: Fairytale characters are living in our world, in the town of Hyperion Heights, with wiped memories and new identities.
Season 1: The Evil Queen Regina has orchestrated the whole thing in order to get revenge on her stepdaughter, Snow White.
Season 7: The Evil Lady Tremaine has orchestrated the whole thing in order to get revenge on her stepdaughter, Cinderella.
Season 1: 10-year old Henry Mills tracks down his birth mother, who happens to be Snow White's daughter, the only one who can break the curse.
Season 7: 10-year old Lucy tracks down her birth father, Henry Mills, who happens to be Cinderella's long-lost husband, the only one who can break the curse.
Yawn. And they're fresh out of fairytale characters. The only new ones who show up are Mother Nature and Baron Samedi, Hansel and Gretel, and Captain Ahab. I don't remember Mother Nature actually being a character in any story, and Baron Samedi is a Haitian voodoo god.
Season 7: Fairytale characters are living in our world, in the town of Hyperion Heights, with wiped memories and new identities.
It's also a beefcake-limited season. The main characters are Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, the wicked stepsisters, Lucy, Regina...men mostly relegated to recurring and guest roles. I could only find 7 respectable hunks.
1. Andrew J. West (top photo) as the adult Henry Mills, who has forgotten that fairytale worlds exist. He published a bestselling novel about them, but insists that it is pure fiction. Oh, and he's Cinderella's husband and Lucy's father.
2. Jeff Pierre (second photo) as Prince Naveen from "The Frog Prince," who is cursed by Baron Samedi but doesn't really turn into a frog.
3. Nathan Parsons as Hansel, who, after the candy house thing, ends up in Oz, and then in Hyperion Heights, where he becomes a serial killer.
4. Liam Hall as the Prince, who dates Cinderella before she marries Henry. He doesn't have a first name because in the fairytale he's called Prince Charming, but that name is taken.
5. Kevin Ryan as Robert, who is working for Baron Samedi because his lover has been turned into a frog.
6. Dan Payne as Ivo, Hansel and Gretel's father.
7. Chad Rook as Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick, who owns a magic fish hook that Captain Hook needs to....well, who knows?
I don't see how you can watch this whimsical stuff, but you must remember Dena Dietrich as Mother Nature in all those Chiffon commercials:
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I do remember the "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" commercials. Also Mother Nature appeared occasionally in Casper's Enchanted Forest in the Harvey comics. She looked exactly like Richie Rich's mother, leading us to wonder if the Enchanted Forest was one of Richie's elaborate playgrounds, with robot ghosts and witches who had somehow become sentient.
Delete"Once Upon a Time" is played as deadly serious, not whimsical at all. It strains the suspension of disbelief occasionally, but once you're ok with Henry being the adopted son of the Evil Queen (who was dating Robin Hood), the biological son of the Snow White's daughter (who was dating Captain Hook), the grandson of Rumpelstiltskin (who married Belle from "Beauty and the Beast), the great-grandson of Peter Pan, the nephew of the Wicked Witch of the West (who was dating Hades), and the husband of Cinderella, everything falls into place.
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