*****SPOILERS*****
This very illuminating sixth episode of the new season opens with Emma, Snow, Aurora, Mulan, and Hook surveying the strange-looking beanstalk that must be climbed to reach the top and the compass necessary to make a portal for Snow and Emma to use to go home. The scene immediately switches to that of a younger Emma of eleven years earlier stealing a car (which looks an awful lot like the car she has now), and she discovers that someone else is in the car—a guy named Neal, who, as it turns out, was in the midst of stealing the car himself. Both Emma and Neal recognize a kindred spirit when they see one...
(Need to catch up? Don't miss H&H's recaps of the Season 2 premiere (2.01), episode 2.02, episode 2.03, episode 2.04, and last week's episode 2.05.)
Meanwhile, back in the present the four intrepid ladies debate who will use the other magic cuff to accompany Hook on the climb up the daunting beanstalk. Emma insists that she will be the one making the trip, and the others relent. Mulan provides Emma with a power made of poppies that will knock-out the giant protecting the compass. On their climb, Hook asks Emma if she has ever been in love, and she says “no.”
[Is she being honest, or will her story play out like Pinocchio?...]
Stephanie Laurens
Urban fantasy readers get treated to a wide variety of supernatural beings in an array of predicaments, the stakes of which may range from the safety of a particular city or area to the destruction of the world. It seems as though there are as many ways to save the world as there are ways to destroy it, and urban fantasy characters each employ an approach that works best for them. In addition to differing methods used to get the job done, the authors’ use of tone in depicting their characters’ thoughts and actions also vary, particularly in regards to humor.
