fairytale addiction
Lately, when I can make the time, I have been watching reruns of "Once Upon a Time". I see more darkness than I had the first time around, and lots of symbolism - though I don't know if that was the writers' intent. "Magic" represents a force greater than ourselves. Most of it reminds me of addictions. We are addicted to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sugar, gambling, sex, pornography . . . the list seems almost endless. You've got your fairytale characters like Rumpelstiltskin and Regina (the evil queen) who have each tried to stop the consumption that has eaten away at them, but hard as they try, they each give into their weaknesses and somehow resort back to who they are. Rumplestiltskin has many names: Crocodile, the Dark One, the Beast . . . Belle sees Rumple the way God wants each of his children to see one another. She constantly believes that there is something locked up deep inside that needs to come out, just as Snow...