Don't be Cruela.....baby

The new season of "One Upon a Time" has been very interesting. The current story arch has three villains who are helping the resident bad guy Rumpelstiltskin as he tries to change the story so the villains can get there happy endings. Since this a Disney production they have been using all of the multitude of Disney characters including Belle from Beauty in Beast, the Little Mermaid, the two broads from Frozen and of course Snow White and the Evil Queen. One of the funny and not quite perfect fits is the introduction of Cruella De Ville from 101 Dalmatians as one of the evil female villains.

Now Cruella is not your standard fairy tale character like Cinderella or Snow White so they had to give her a back story to make it plausible. Last night featured her and the back story was a doozy. It seems she was a homicidal little blond girl who poisoned her father. Then poisoned the next two step fathers even though her mother had imprisoned her in the attic like Jane Eyre. She was "rescued" by the "author" who is an integral part of the plot line. It seems that through the ages there has always been someone called the author who wrote in the book of tales and could control the lives of the characters he wrote about in the various realms. These authors throughout the years had include such people as Aesop, Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and a guy named Disney. Neat right?

It all works out in the end as Cruella is murdered by mistake by one of the Heroes who is slowly going over to the dark side. She gets hers but had a whole prime episode to tell her story and for the actress to show off her acting chops. It was very well done mindless entertainment suitable for children of all ages.