What I’m Watching: Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time: Season 1, Episode 7 “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” (C+)

Now we’re finally getting some serious links between the real world and the fairy tale world, and they sure are fantastical. Graham’s decision to kiss Emma prompted what can only be described as a “Lost” series finale-style vision, in which he suddenly recalls flashes of his former life. The only problem with this is that he’s kissing his prey’s daughter rather than Snow White herself, but I suppose that can be explained away by the family relation factor. Now, there’s finally someone else who goes to Henry for explanation about what his alter ago is, but unfortunately that same character is presumably dead by episode’s end, thanks to a literal crushing of his heart by Regina. The fairy tale realizations are getting to be considerably cornier, though it’s interesting to learn, if we didn’t already know it, that Snow White’s father was married to the Evil Queen, who killed her husband and then sought to have Snow herself killed by the Huntsman, soon to appear in a film of his own and to be played by Chris Hemsworth opposite Kristen Stewart’s Snow White. There’s not much else going on in this hour, but I suppose it was about time that someone felt Regina’s wrath in a way that proved deadly rather than just her scolding Henry, who barely appeared in this episode. The show is now on hiatus for about a month, and I’m hopeful that it will return with more of a sense of immediate purpose and the revelation of some new links between the fantasy world and the real world.