Posted by Dustin on 11.05.2012 at 6:14 pm

So I’m forgoing any kind of detailed recap with this post because if I don’t take notes while the show is playing, I forget something important; and because I’m so behind in TV post that I want to just get some thoughts up and move on to what else should be airing this week . . . should we have power after this next storm hits us!

On “Once Upon A Time” we learned about Emma’s past and finally met Henry’s dad, Neal. However what we know isn’t exactly what Emma thinks she knows . . . so no wonder she thinks Henry’s dad is a no good rat! Emma and Neal spent years running from town to town doing small time thefts to get by. However Neal’s past caught up to him, he once did a real big heist, and he needed to flee to Canada. However Emma came up with a plan for them both to get some money and head north, but things went very wrong. From Emma’s point of view, Neal set her up to take the fall for the crime he did years ago and then headed to Canada. She went to jail, and learned she was pregnant. That much we knew from an earlier episode. However it seems she thinks Neal screwed her. What we learned was that August/Pinocchio showed up and seems to be who really screwed her. He told Neal about the town he is trying to save, and how Emma plays a vital role in saving it, and yada yada . . . He said Neal had to get out of her life so she could save the town. Neal gave all the money from the crime to August to give to Emma, which he said he would. But then we saw the look in his eye . . . given it was another 10 years before August even showed up in Storybrook and met Emma, something tells me Pinocchio was just a bad bad boy! I do, however, think we can safely assume it was August who sent the card to Neal about the curse being broken, probably out of guilt.

In Fairytale land, Emma basically got the compass they need to find the portal from the giant, but also left Captain Hook chained in his castle. They were getting pretty close, but it seems she doesn’t trust him and doesn’t want to make the same mistake again. Awwwww, how could she leave that hottie Hook like that? Was she right about him though? Was he playing her, or has she been so jaded by her past and the betrayal she thinks was done to her by Neal that she threw away a shot at true love?

Finally it seems there is some shared nightmare going around. Aurora/Beauty who just woke up seems to be experiencing what Snow and others got long ago? Meanwhile in Storybrook it seems Henry is also getting a taste of the dream. The dream seems to be about some big bad dark shadow monster . . . . I have to wonder if they are trying to set up a new evil creature? If so, who?

Onto “666 Park Avenue” . . . I didn’t get to write up last week’s show because, well a hurricane ended up coming in. This week was the fall out from the Doran’s Halloween party and Peter Kramer trying to kill Jane as he thought she was his wife because of her necklace. Henry didn’t seem to believe her story about the killer, especially after the cops told her they found no trace of a dead body anywhere. They suspected psychological problems, and Henry remembered that Jane’s grandma apparently ended up in the psych ward. Later though the lead detective talked to Jane and seemed to be open minded about her story, and then started digging into the Drake’s mysterious past . . . Oh dear, he’s probably gunna die!

Olivia and Gavin learned their own lawyer betrayed them and helped have “their box” stolen from the safe. Gavin learned some Victor Shaw guy is behind it as payback. He wants the Drake, and if he doesn’t get it then he’ll open the box . . . Gavin didn’t think he could control it . . . Is this thing supposed to be Pandora’s box? That’s what I’m thinking. Shaw seemed to be doing this because Gavin took something of his in the past. He also said something about how Gavin won Olivia by nefarious means. It seems Gavin trapped the guy Olivia used to be with in the Drake forever, and then got Olivia for himself. This made me again wonder, is Gavin the bio-dad of his and Olivia’s daughter? Or did he do away with that guy to win her, and maybe their daughter found this information out? Did the daughter even really kill herself?

The end of the show had Gavin calling Shaw’s bluff and leaving him another box to open . . . in which was their lawyer’s decapitated head! Gavin then arranged to get Kandinsky out of prison, which means Shaw’s probably in serious trouble now that Gavin knows who he is. Elsewhere Jane learned that Peter Kramer was one of the men in the mysterious photo she found of the Drake’s basement and that creepy door. She also realized her pendant is also on Kramer’s wife in another photo, and thus the little girl is her crazy grandma . . . Well I think we figured that one out. However why is her grandma trapped in the building as a little girl ghost?