My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9
Genre: Fairy tale, fantasy, life, romance, adventure
Series or set: Once Upon a Time
Number in series: 1st
Primary actors: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Robert Carlyle
Length: 22 episodes, each 45 minutes (about 15 hours)
Based on: Classic fairy tales. All of them.
Time period: Present, fantasy
Rating: TV-PG
Year it came out: 2011
My overall opinion: Look at this, y’all! I finally got to watch Once Upon a Time and can now say, without any reservations, that...I’m addicted. Totally, utterly, completely. Which is rather sad, but also entirely the truth. What can I even say about this show? I don’t know where to start.
I loved every minute spent in the fairy tale land. Figuring out what fairy tale was being retold was always fun, and for the most part, I loved the unique spin taken on each. And then seeing the characters, their similarities and differences, moved forward to present day was fascinating.
The evil queen was very evil and couldn’t have been cast
more perfectly. She had just the right evil smile. Emma, who wasn’t a fairy
tale character really at all, was also well-cast. I greatly enjoyed her as a
person, and I do admire her for the most part. She’s a really neat person. I
loved Mary Margaret aka Snow White - you don’t get many people sweeter than
her. And she managed to be super sweet yet not sickeningly sweet, which I
really appreciated. And then David aka Prince Charming - while I didn’t always
approve of how he handled his real-world relationships, I did all in all like
him. 
Who else was of importance…oh! Henry, of course! A sweet
boy, though not the best of actors, I didn’t think. He did well overall though.
And Ruby aka Red – I really liked her too, strange as that may sound-seem-be.
Her fairy tale was really cool, and she’s so pretty! Mr. Gold aka
Rumplestiltskin - quite alarming, and a truly menacing and mysterious
character. I haven’t yet decided whether or not to feel sorry for him…he seems
good, and then he does something horrid and seems bad. So I don’t know. Really, my only true problem with the show is the CG, which stuck out even to me as being quite bad. Often the use of a green screen is clear from the sloppy edges on the characters, and the animated beasts are also pretty awful. However, if you can ignore this, the show is lovely. And also, I love the music.
So, all in all? I love Once Upon a Time and can’t wait to watch Season 2! I highly recommend it for fantasy lovers, anyone with a lot of time (which I don’t have…yet I still managed to watch this somehow), and anyone who wants to know just how the fairy tales actually happened.
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I LOVE Once Upon a Time! Well...how much I've seen of it. I've watched less than half of the first season, and video clips on YouTube from the rest. But then my dad watched the first episode of season three and he said that he doesn't like the "Amazon" girls who fight, and he thinks that the fairy tales are perverted, etc. etc. :-/
I hope you enjoy what you watch!
Another show that intrigues me, but will have to wait until I have more watching time, aka, until my kids grow up a bit. I love the costumes from the pics and clips I've seen!
Once Upon a Time already shows much potential with a great pilot episode. It really got to the point without giving everything away. It basically tells the background information behind the story seen in the shows fictional town of Storybrooke. It does this in just the right way so that the viewer won't get confused or bored from just hearing the talk of fairy-tales from the side of a little boy.
It's simply about Emma Swan and the destiny she's unaware of. Before she was born a prophecy was foretold that an evil curse would befall all of the inhabitants a fairy-tale kingdom sending them to a world where they no longer remember who they are or the happiness they once knew. In the prophecy it is foretold that Emma would be the one to return and save them from the dreaded curse.
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