Once Upon a Time – Season 1, Episode 13: “What Happened to Frederick.”
Episode in a word – UGH! Let’s take a trip to fairytale land. Abigail set to marry Prince Charming to unite the two kingdoms together. Prince charming loved Snow White. Abigail love to Frederick.
Who’s Frederick?
Just some knight turned into gold that saved the life of King Midas (the curse of Midas anything he touches turns to gold). What Abigail needed was magical water from a lake to resurrect Frederick. Many tried but lost their lives. Prince Charming said he was fearless and brave, he would retrieve the magical water. UGH! Charming went to the lake. He filled his leather-drinking pouch with water.
U-G-H-uhmunga!
He could have LEFT. He had the water so why did he stay. Oh yeah, back to the fearless warrior crap. Snow White didn’t love him (she took potion to forget about you). UGH! So he had nothing to lose.
A beautiful woman arose from the center of the lake. She took on the image of Snow White. UGH! That was enough to fool Prince Charming to kiss her. UGH! He dropped his sword. She pulled him down into the bottom of the lake. Some seaweed-vine curled on his leg. He’s trapped about to drown.
UGH!
Woman kissed him at the bottom of the lake. Charming saw knife at the bottom of the lake. Grabbed it. Stabbed her. Cut himself loose from the vine. Went back to Abigail. She poured the magical water over the golden knight. Frederick’s alive again.
That whole fairytale storyline in a word – UGH!
In Storybrooke, something a bit more interesting happened. The mysterious writer whose name we learned was August had Henry’s book. August did something unusual to the pages. He put them in some sort of chemical like what was used to develop photographs. He then hung the pages to dry on the string just like photographs.
August used needle and thread to bind the pages back to the book. What did he do to those pages exactly? He made sure Emma found the book near her car. She returned the book to Henry.
Kathryn (Abigail in fairytale land) decided to leave her husband because he was in love with Mary Margaret. She was headed to Boston to attend law school. No one can leave Storybrooke. Her car made it to the sign “Leaving Storybrooke.” The airbag popped opened. Where was she?
Frederick (don’t know his real life name) was on his way out of town as well. Why? Following his true love and didn’t know it. UGH.
What do you think happened with the book? Do you think Kathryn/Abigail went missing or *poof* disappeared from existence?
Watch Once Upon a Time Sundays 8/7c on ABC.
