Think Lovely Thoughts
| "Think Lovely Thoughts" | |
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| Once Upon a Time episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | David Solomon |
| Written by | David H. Goodman & Robert Hull |
| Production code | 308 |
| Original air date | November 17, 2013 |
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"Think Lovely Thoughts" is the eighth episode of the third season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, and the show's 52nd episode overall.
In this episode, the group races to Skull Rock in order to save Henry (Jared S. Gilmore) from Peter Pan (Robbie Kay), who plans to harness immortality by taking Henry's heart. Meanwhile, a young Rumpelstiltskin (Wyatt Oleff) and his scheming father Malcolm (Stephen Lord) make their way to Neverland, which soon becomes a life-altering journey for both of them.
The episode was met with positive reviews from critics; however, the episode saw a significant drop in ratings, with 6.66 million viewers tuning in.
Skull Rock is featured.
In a local tavern yard, a young boy, who is revealed to be a young Rumplestiltskin, begs a man not to hurt his father Malcolm, who is a 3-card monte cheat. Later on, Malcolm brings Rumplestiltskin to a cabin and asks the women spinning wool to look after him as he attempts to get a real job. Before he goes, he gives his son the corn husk doll as a present. Hours later, the women see that Rumplestiltskin has a huge talent for spinning. While Rumplestiltskin tells them that he believed that Malcolm will come back, the ladies tell him that he returned to the same tavern. The women advise him to take the magic bean and go someplace where his father’s bad reputation won’t follow him. Rumplestiltskin later return to the same tavern, and just as the ladies told him, sees his father playing games again. Rumplstiltskin coaxes Malcolm to go away somewhere and make a fresh start. Malcolm then remembers the phrase “think lovely thoughts,” which he used to comfort himself when he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. So they use the bean to go to a place called Neverland, holding hands.
As they land in Neverland, Malcolm tells his son to imagine a cake, and it appears. He then tells him that in Neverland anyone can fly, but as he attempts to take off, he falls to the ground because he is now a grown-up. Malcolm remembers needing Pixie Dust, but Rumplestiltskin is too scared to climb up the tall trees that have the pixie dust flowers, so Malcolm tells him to wait and he’ll get enough for both. He climbs up and sprinkles some dust on himself, saying “I want to fly,” but just then the shadow comes and mocks him, telling him he doesn’t belong. On the ground, Rumplestiltskin later weeps, thinking his father has met with an accident after one of his shoes falls from the tree, but then his father climbs down to comfort him, telling him that Neverland is only for children. Unfortunately, as Rumplestiltskin suggests they go somewhere else, Malcolm says he knows he would just go back to his old ways if he did. The shadow then comes to take Rumplestiltskin, believing it is the only way the father can believe he’s a young man. As the shadow takes Rumplestiltskin away he witnesses a green spell coming over Malcolm, who suddenly turns into the infamous Peter Pan, a name that Rumplestiltskin had given his lost doll. After he returned to stay with the women he tells them of what had happen, as the women believe that he would be better off without a father.
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