One Rocky Road

This week I will be reviewing the show Once Upon A Time and its current season which features Elsa and Anna from the movie Frozen. If you are not familiar with the show please direct your full attention to the following paragraph that briefly recaps season one, please direct your attention to the heading Season 1. . Since the show started in 2011 there has been a huge following of fans who refer to themselves as "Oncers". The oncer fandom comes from the title of the show's title but they just add an S. The Once Upon A Time fandom is huge and they have created "ships" a.k.a people who they think will or should get together, "Ships" can also be formed with existing couples. Currently in season 4 there are 4 ships and they would be Snowing (Snow White and Prince Charming), Captain Swan (Captain Hook and Emma Swan), Rumbelle (Rumpelstiltskin and Belle) and lastly OutlawQueen (Regina (the evil queen) and Robin Hood). Captain Swan has been "shipped" since seasons 2-3 when Emma and Hook first met in the enchanted forest.


Season 1

On her 28th birthday a women named Emma Swan receives a unexpected guest outside her door claiming to her son she had given up for adoption 10 year ago, with a fairy tale book in hand her son tells her of a town in Maine called Storybrooke that is occupied with characters from his book and that she is the child of Prince Charming and Snow White and also the only person who could break the curse that had been cast on the town and the people in it.




Fast forward 3 seasons that involved new characters, unexpected trips to Neverland, new relationships and death we have arrived at our destination season 4 of Once Upon A Time episode 3


Since the show started in 2011, this season has been my favourite so far because of 5 main reason the first reason is that there were so many Frozen (2013 film) references in the show from quotes to characters. In the show they captured Elsa and Anna's personalities perfectly as well as their costumes. The episode Rocky Road is my favorite so far because in this episode Emma, Hook, David (prince charming) and Elsa go on the hunt for the Snow Queen who has framed Elsa for cursing Maid Marian (Robin Hoods) wife, during the flashbacks you get a closer look at Elsa and Kristoffs relationship that has developed since

 (! SPOILER ALERT!) Anna and Kristoff have become engaged, during the flash back it was revealed that Hans and his brothers planned to start a war with Arendalle but Elsa and Kristoff go on a mission to stop them before they can attack her kingdom, While heading to the camp where Hans and his brothers are there is a reference to when Kristoff and Anna (in the movie) use the rope to climb down the mountain where Elsa had built her ice castle. My favourite part of the flashback was when Kristoff said the following quote "She's going to be fine. I've seen Anna fight wolves and snow monsters and that idiot from the South Isles." The second reason I loved this episode was because Hans was finally frozen not by Elsa but the Snow Queen! when that happened I have to say I did a little happy dance inside. The third reason why I loved this episode was because while Hook and Elsa were on the hunt for the Snow Queen we were finally able to see Hook use modern day technology and were able to laugh at how he only knew how to call Emma ... Kind of like how my grandma can only figure out how to call my dads cellphone when she's trying to call me. The fourth reason why I loved this episode was because we're were able to see The Knave of Hearts make his way into Storybrooke and see who he is and his backstory, it was cool being able to see how the creators Adam and Eddy bring him over because fans would know him as the Knave of Hearts from Once Upon A Time In Wonderland and not just Will. The finale reason why I loved this episode was because of Regina she chose to be selfless and save Robin’s wife's Marian from the curse by removing her heart before the ice curse could freeze it. Don't get me wrong I loved all the CaptainSwan moments  (Emma and Hook) as well as when Emma saved Hook from being killed but this episode really showed how much Regina cares for Robin and wanting him to be happy even if it means he would chose to be with Marian, and it shows how selfless she has become since the show started in 2011.