Sisters – Once Upon a Time: ‘Lily’ Review

<p>When things get tough&comma; the tough get going – all the way out of town&comma; apparently&period; After <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;psych-once-upon-a-time-sympathy-for-the-de-vil-review&sol;">knocking Cruella down a peg<&sol;a>&comma; Emma and Regina hit the road to get out from under Gold&&num;8217&semi;s thumb in search of Emma&&num;8217&semi;s former bestie&comma; Lily&period; Surprise&comma; surprise&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll admit&comma; I do like me some Savior and Evil Queen together and I&&num;8217&semi;d be happy just watching them drive around having adventures&comma;<em> Supernatural-<&sol;em>style&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alas&comma; my duty here demands that I review the episode you did watch rather than the one you wished you watch&period; Believe it or not&comma; <em>Lily <&sol;em>gives me more answers than I thought I wanted to know – I just wish it had given them a whole lot earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Spoilers Follow<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000934&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Regina-and-Emma-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-82172 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000934&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Regina-and-Emma-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"OUAT S4 'Lily' Regina and Emma BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Regina talking Emma off a ledge are always some of the best parts of <em>Once Upon a Time<&sol;em> and it&&num;8217&semi;s no different for<em> Lily<&sol;em>&period; She obviously has experience in overcoming her Evil Queen schtick&comma; and literally no one else can ever push – err&comma; turn off Emma&&num;8217&semi;s buttons the same way&period; Lana Parrilla can infuse Regina&&num;8217&semi;s words with the weight the character demands every time and made them stick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; the girls&&num;8217&semi; road trip provided a wealth of flashbacks to our Lily and Emma teen soap that we haven&&num;8217&semi;t seen in a season&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ll be honest&comma; though&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s hard to put up with either of them&comma; much less in the teen angst package&period; I get it&colon; she got dealt a crappy card in life &lpar;it&&num;8217&semi;s always the parents&comma; isn&&num;8217&semi;t it&quest;&rpar; but I can&&num;8217&semi; stay I&&num;8217&semi;m moved&period; As important as she&&num;8217&semi;s been&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;d disappointing that the writing do her no service in fleshing her out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Once Upon a Time&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em>s a series with a sort of short-term memory when it comes to picking up on its plots and I can&&num;8217&semi;t help but relate to Lily on the burden of making up for lost time&period; What we did see of The Apprentice here made for some interesting present-to-past connections&comma; though&period; And maybe just how imaginative Regina was with making fairytale purgatories in the first place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000903&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Present-Day-BagoGames&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-82180 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000903&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Present-Day-BagoGames&period;png" alt&equals;"OUAT S4 'Lily' Present Day BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s always a nauseating level of disbelief that fairytale noobs seem to have with Storybrooke the first time around&period; Thank goodness they cut to the chase here with Lily&comma; at least&period; The gal&&num;8217&semi;s been around some  magic&comma; needless to say&comma; and for once I appreciate the show moving its exposition along for a change&period; After all&comma; hasn&&num;8217&semi;t everyone in the world seen Disney flicks already&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For all the angst between them&comma; I have a harder time buying Emma and Lily&&num;8217&semi;s issues coming to a physical head despite the flashbacks&&num;8217&semi; context&period; It shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have triggered anything&comma; much less bringing a gun to a fistfight&period; Tie her up&quest; Sure&period; Threaten to kill her&quest; Nope&period; Even with all the recent discussions about Emma going dark&comma; it was too extreme too quickly&period; She acted like a moody&comma; angst-ridden teenager &&num;8212&semi; which makes sense to some degree because the last time she saw Lily was as a teen but not enough to justify her going crazy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000920&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Regina-and-Robin-BagoGames&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-82175 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05000920&sol;OUAT-S4-Lily-Regina-and-Robin-BagoGames&period;png" alt&equals;"OUAT S4 'Lily' Regina and Robin BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the topic of belief&comma; what the heck was up with Robin&quest; He&&num;8217&semi;s not unfamiliar with the inherent craziness that accompanies legends and myths and he loves and trusts Regina&period; Why wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t he believe her about Zelena being Marian&quest; A level of denial makes sense but not outright disbelief&comma; not when the news came from Regina&period; Then there was the pregnancy twist&period; Come on&period; I swear&comma; this had better be a trick&comma; because Robin&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;is she&comma; or isn&&num;8217&semi;t she&quest;&&num;8221&semi; drama&&num;8217&semi;s all rather eye-roll worthy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m not sure what&&num;8217&semi;s going on between Rumplestiltskin and Belle&period; He was kind to her – more specifically&comma; kind to her and Will – and didn&&num;8217&semi;t seem to want anything in return&period; While I&&num;8217&semi;m all for having a main series antagonist again&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s still something &lpar;or someone&rpar; that ought to keep Rumple in check&period; The gestures don&&num;8217&semi;t have to be grand&comma; only enough to show he still has a weak spot for Belle and it was definitely accomplished here&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Once Upon a Time<&sol;em> still feels like it&&num;8217&semi;s digging up age-old dirt and making do&period; Though far from timely&comma; <em>Lily<&sol;em> gave us another interesting addition to the show&&num;8217&semi;s growing line of disgruntled kids&period; Regina serving as Emma&&num;8217&semi;s life coach kept the primary plot afloat&comma; but overall&comma; Emma&&num;8217&semi;s falling too far too fast for reasons that only seem to be thanks to a pending season finale&period; Until then&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m interested to see what comes of Maleficent&&num;8217&semi;s long-lost progeny and just how Robin and Regina pick up the pieces&comma; sans one Wicked Witch of the West&period; Three&&num;8217&semi;s a crowd&comma; eh&comma; Zelina&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p><em>Once Upon a Time<&sol;em> airs Sunday nights on ABC at 8&sol;7 Central&period; Catch all the latest episodes at <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;abc&period;go&period;com&sol;shows&sol;once-upon-a-time&sol;episode-guide">ABC&period;com<&sol;a> and all the latest reviews here at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com">BagoGames<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;