two things

1. So I have not been watching OUAT lately. Interestingly, it was 2x04 that stopped me in my tracks, a Carlyle-centric episode. I mean, I adore Robert Carlyle and all that, obviously, but then it was, oh, look, there Gold/Rumpel goes again, he's still evil! Which was exactly what I asked for -- I didn't (still don't) want him to have a sudden woobly personality change, and I did want Belle to think better of the whole thing (was quite pleased about that), but suddenly it just seemed so boring, like, we already did this in Season 1, could we have something new, please? Something a little more complex? (It doesn't help that I've been mainlining The Good Wife, which has dialogue and complicated characters and character arcs that are approximately twenty million times as awesome. Or that in SGU they actually fixed a lot of the things that were plaguing me at the start, whereas I dunno, Season 2 of OUAT seems to be more of season 1.) But then apparently there are spoilers that Gold and Regina are going to be featured prominently together for a couple of episodes at least, and, um. I may have to watch that, because Carlyle and Parilla together are, well, magic.

(Also: there has got to be a crack way of crossovering Mr. Gold and Eli Gold, right? I do not know what it is, especially since Carlyle doesn't present as Jewish to me at all, but it must exist.)

(ETA: Oh my gosh, I am totally starting to write this crossover in my head. I HAVE PROBLEMS.)

2. ALL THE YULETIDE FEEEEELINGS. Obviously. I have not gotten a whole lot done this afternoon.