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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

http://abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time-in-wonderland

Seriously.  All that's missing is Horatio, who would probably fit right in with this series.   :awesome_for_real:

What is this shit?

Somehow this show is much more palatable than the original series but still suffers from terrible blue screen and soap opera writing.  The actors all seem to be trying their best however and some bits shine through the haze.

I saw the first two episodes and was not enthused.  It feels a bit like fan faction to me for some reason...

I guess I'll repost here what I said in the other Once Upon a Time thread:

The Knave of Hearts is awesome haha.  He kind of reminds me a bit of Rudy from Misfits, only without all the sex talk.

Yeah, they've kinda gone a little loopy with trying to hybridize the various tales and lores, something you really do see only in fan-fiction stuffs (initial plot of Wonderland: the Queen of Hearts and Jafar [yeah, the Disney Aladdin villain] are executing a plan to get Alice for...something.  This has nothing to do with the Johnny Depp "Wonderland" movie, but they're taking the same route of "Alice has grown up with all these adventures in Wonderland and gets committed to the looney bin" thing).

Still, the wife and I have enjoyed the original OUAT.  Will give this a shot and see what happens.

His sister, the racist who went to jail, was in Misfits.  I liked him in the couple of other things I've seen him in.  I'm not crazy about this show, though, or the other one.  Maybe I've lost my whimsy gene or something.  The new one, however, seems a bit darker than I thought it would be - which is a good thing.  I think the acting in the first one is worse, though.  I don't like Snow White and her husband a bit and Emma is as meh as she was in House.  Love Robert Carlysle, though, but I love him in nearly anything.  My sister watches these so sometimes I see them accidentally.  I think there might be a curse on actors from Lost.  Except for the bloke from Person of Interest, which I like although the first episode this season was weird.  Hope it's not the Lost curse kicking in.

They try to force too much drama.

I wanted to like this, but wow was it bad. I liked the girl cast as Alice, but the rest of the cast aside from Kieth David (Cheshire Cat) was forgettable. And the CGI... It takes a lot of effort to make modern CGI look like early 80's greenscreening. I grabbed the first two episodes, but I'm not seeing much of a reason to watch number two.

My only hope is they elevate the Cheshire Cat to something more than mindless predator antagonist, but I'm not holding my breath.

The Knave is no Mad Hatter (the original premise) and it shows.

I usually try to watch 'too much' television early in the season and then decide whether a show will fall in the 'watch it live', 'watch it on dvr', 'catch up on it sometime' or 'give up' buckets. 

OUAT is now in 'DVR' zone and this show is in 'catch up'.  They're sort of dragging each other down, though.  I think they'd have been better off not making a second series, but instead adding a bunch of episodes to the OUAT series that replaced reruns and had minimal, if any, of the main cast.