To take the relationship from a simmering subtext to blatant main text is completely in line with the show’s mission to redefine fairytales and dole out happy endings like candy. Two ladies uniting in love for their son (and possibly each other yes please) is just a logical as hell next step.

A recap of the 21st episode of the 2nd season of Once Upon a Time, “Second Star To the Right.” Regina is tortured, Snow learns empathy and Baelfire finally gets his episode.

So Regina flees and Snow weeps for the mother figure destroyed and her own innocence violated and it never rings quite true, because this show has, at some point, decided that making Snow White/Mary Margaret anything more than a foil for Regina and a wet blanket for Emma would be intolerable.

Emma doesn’t know her well enough or feel secure enough in their relationship to say “you may wear hats because it helps after you got that haircut that makes your ears look crazy huge but I look pretty okay with some Aquanet and a curling iron so let’s call it a day.”

For a show about happy endings, love finding a way and rainbows and crap Once Upon A Time is developing a nasty habit of crafting villains I like more than the heroes.

A girl watched her lover die in a stable and stopped growing, instead twisting back in on herself and becoming more and more closed off, fragile and terrifying.

It seems almost designed to be the most callous action Snow could possibly take, and it’s one so dark and indefensible in light of whom Snow is that it will be curious to see the reaction of the other “good guys.”

“Brave and true” Snow learns Cora and Regina are in league and sets out to do what everyone has always done to Regina, manipulate her into changing sides. Is it any wonder Regina rejects her outright and calls Snow evil?

Morrison in particular has had her character sidelined all season. Emma’s been there, but she’s been little more than a plot device disallowed to have emotions beyond what a script demands. She hasn’t been organic in quite a while and last night she came roaring back.

A recap of the 13th episode of the 2nd season of Once Upon A Time, “Tiny.” Jorge Garcia returns as a giant with heart and Jack gets Rule 63′d to our joy.