Hey All,
So I know some of you out there remember Karen from her days of reviewing LOST and being 1/3 of The ODI LOST Podcast, while many of you probably have no idea who she is.
Well Karen is probably the biggest, most passionate LOST fan there is I know and that is saying quite a bit knowing the time and efforts I personally put into the show.
Well Karen is back and she really likes the new show Once Upon a Time and if time permits she will begin reviewing the show on a weekly basis. Now before you begin reading the review keep in mind that Karen is VERY detail oriented and she mixes in the details (several images) from the show with it her thoughts, beliefs and theories along the way. Most of her reviews are very long, but always awesome!
Yes, we know a few episodes have already aired and Karen will eventually review episodes 2 and 3 soon, but in the mean time check out her thoughts on the Pilot episode below and let her and us know what you think in the comments. Karen loves to interact with fans/readers so please comment and leave some feedback for her.
Enjoy and join Karen in her new fantasy journey!
NOTE: She is currently posting the OUAT reviews on her LOST Blog Karen's LOST Notebook, but will probably create a separate page for OUAT soon.
When I was a little girl growing up in New York City, I read a lot. I read anything I could get my hands on; comics, sci-fi, mysteries, fantasy and fairy tales. My life growing up was extremely rough and reading was my way of escaping that place. I would read those stories and imagine myself in those worlds- fighting and beating the monsters, discovering gold, solving an ancient mystery and finding my knight in shining armor. Reading gave me a sense of adventure and cultivated my own imagination. Although at times that escapism was a mechanism to cope with life, it is a special gift that I have taken with me in to adulthood.
Fairy tales give us epic stories of adventure, the struggle between good and evil and the battle and fortitude that lies within. They can be moral tales and legends; that many times ask us to believe in the stories as if they are truthful or fact. So, technically a fairy tale is a misleading statement, lie or account or belief.
The thing about being a little girl and reading fairy tales, is that for me, it gave me and taught me to hold on to hope. Even now as a grownup I still hold on to the magic of fairy tales, with it's motifs of dreams and wishes that can come true; more importantly along the way the main character ends up discovering who they really are inside and that they can be heroic, and on to finding their true purpose and place in the world, all the way through their destiny and happy ever after. I have to believe that dreams and wishes can come true and I have to believe in happy endings, after all, at times the real world can be a pretty hostile and horrible place.
I was enthusiastically drawn into this newly written fairy tale mash-up. I was transported back to my own childhood where fairy tales reined important to me, where my creative mind could imagine me not only living in a fairy tale, but fairy tale characters crossing over and living in the "real world".
The show is brilliantly shot and really makes it feel like the fairy tale pages come to life. The colors are spectacular and the imagery is wonderful. The cast is dynamic and assume their enchanted role and their real world role counterparts with richness. I totally adore little Henry. I especially loved following the magical characters with the concept of existing in more than a singular realm.
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