Into The Woods Review & News!

Once Upon A Time Season 4 Announcement

I've decided that from this point forward my blog will not only feature just Once Upon A Time Season 4 Reviews, but now I will expand to other films and series. This doesn't mean that the Once Upon A Time reviews are over but, I will put them off for a while.

Review

If you really like musicals this movie must be on your radar. When I saw this movie the first thing I expected was, a mix of a Tim Burton movie meets Les Miserables. What I also expected was a movie that was kind of vintage and also a bit of an innocent fairytale, but still with a dark feel to it. 

I was almost right.

When I saw this movie I was surprised because, one, I never thought this would be a musical. Two, I never imagined that Anna Kendrick sang that well or sang at all. Three, Meryl Streep was great in this roll, I really loved it. Four, I never thought that this movie would end the way it did, and my last, I think this movie is a bit sinister not in its story line, but in the way Disney turned it to; I feel this movie has too many deaths to be a Disney movie, I think this movie should be more directed to the older crowd.

Personally I liked how the movie tells different stories at the same time, but yet somehow they end up being one whole story, and the way the songs tell the stories, they are not boring at all, they are truly entertaining. In the instant I saw the movie; I already had my selection of favorite songs. It’s that good. For example in the beginning of the movie, there is a prologue that lasts like 14 minutes, that song is one of my favorites.

 These are my favorites:

        1.  Prologue: Into The Woods
    2. Giants in The Sky
    3. On The Steps Of The Palace

 I recommend this movie to musical enthusiasts, if you’re not into musicals; this movie is not really for you. 

Once Upon A Time 3rd Episode For Season 4

Once Upon A Time 3rd Episode For Season 4

"Rocky Road"

The third episode starts with, Robin Hood, his son and his wife, Miriam walking around Storybrooke, they are showing Miriam around, because as I mention before, she comes from the past. Then suddenly Robin’s kid asked if he could have ice cream, they both agreed, and so, they walked towards the ice cream shop. When they got there, they were greeted by Ingrid, the person in charge of the store, robin and his son, asked for rocky road, as Miriam wasn't from this world, she had the least bit of an idea on what to ask for, and so Ingrid was kind enough to offer her a simple vanilla ice-cream cone, as she added some sprinkles to it, it was seen how Ingrid waved her hand over the cone and some translucent shimmer appeared. What could this be?

As Miriam and Robin Hood entered a municipal meeting that snow white and prince charming had planned, out of nowhere Miriam started to feel dizzy and lost sight, and then of course she fainted. Everybody got scared at that moment. Then, Robin had no one else to go to, and so he went looking for Regina in hopes that she could be of any help. When robin got to her, he asked if there was something she could do to reverse the curse; she sadly said no, there was nothing she could do.

Later on when Regina left to see Miriam, Elsa walked in with Emma, Regina blamed Elsa for what was happening to Miriam, for the curse was lifted with ice magic which Elsa possessed. Elsa told them this wasn't her magic and so they seek the Dark One for his help. He was able to help and turned a lock of Miriam’s hair into snowflakes that lead to the owner’s magic source. Elsa and Hook took the journey and followed the snowflakes.

Eventually the snowflakes lead them to the Snow Queen A.K.A Ingrid. Elsa saw her and she was astounded with what she saw, she saw someone just like her, this made her feel happy and interested.

This episode also tells us how The Snow Queen came to be. It turns out The Snow Queen was released years ago from the same Urn Elsa escaped. Prince Hans, Elsa’s and Anna’s nemesis, released her in hope the urn would dispose of Elsa, and make him the ruler of Arendele. After the snow queen was released, Elsa was grateful for her help, because the Snow Queen froze Hans and saved her. After a while Elsa and Ingrid caught up on their lives, and Elsa found out that The Snow Queen is or was , Elsa’s mother’s sister, that makes  The Snow Queen  Elsa’s and Anna’s Aunt.

Once Upon A Time 2nd Episode For Season 4

Once Upon A Time 2nd Episode For Season 4

 - "White Out"-

 Elsa with anger and anguish builds an ice wall and she says that no one will leave the town until her sister, Anna is found. When the wall is built, some light posts are tumbled and the electricity is gone in town. That’s when Emma approaches the town border and sees this wall; she notices a human shadow among the wall and approaches it to investigate it. That’s where Emma meets Elsa. Elsa gets scared and traps Emma and herself in an ice cave. While in the ice cave Emma tries to bond with Elsa. Elsa warns Emma that if Anna isn't found, the whole town would get FROZEN, and then Emma starts showing signs of hypothermia, and started to die. Then Emma’s father (Prince Charming or David) communicated with Elsa and he also was warned, then he went looking for help to Rumpelstiltskin's store and he saw a picture of Ana’s necklace, then he remembered that Ana got branded by Bo Peep and so Bo Peep’s staff can locate her.

When David got to the cave, he told Elsa that they could find Ana with Bo Peep’s staff but they need her to use her magic and drill through the cave to save Emma. But there was an issue; Elsa did not trust in her powers enough to drill through, and so David spoke to her and she gained a bit of confidence. Elsa was able to drill through, Emma was saved. After all of this, the energy got restored in town, and Elsa used Bo Peep’s staff to locate Ana, sadly the staff only released Ana’s Heart Beat, but still Elsa trusted that Ana was Safe and alive. after all the present issues were solved, Emma and Elsa went to the town line to destroy the wall, as Elsa used her magic to destroy nothing was happening, then they asked themselves "why is the wall still up, there is no reason for this to stay frozen?" the Elsa said "I'm the only one with this power, I should be able to undo it". They were wrong. 

Once Upon A Time 1st Episode From Season 4

Once Upon A Time 1st Episode From Season 4 

Brief Recap From Last Season's Finale Episode

The first episode for this season is all about picking up where they left off last season. For a brief recap, Emma and Hook return from the past, and they bring a young lady from the Enchanted Forest, which turns out to be Robin Hood’s wife, Miriam, who at the present  time she should be dead. To this point, Robin Hood is seeing Regina (The Evil Queen); when Robin Hood sees Miriam, he is surprised to see her because he thought she was dead, which she was, so when Robin sees Miriam, his mind gets all mixed up because he has a code where he fulfills all his vows and never breaks them, and as he and Miriam were married, he made a vow to her to be by her side till death do them part.

But before all this happened no one noticed that an urn had been brought from the past and so that’s where Elsa comes into the picture, she was put in that urn long time ago, and she has no clue how it happened.

In the first episode, Elsa is revealed and she wonders around Storybrooke. Later, Elsa loses control of her powers and as she was fearful of the present world, she accidently makes a Snow monster which terrorizes the town; finally Regina saves Miriam from the snow monster and demonstrates that she is hero and no longer a Villain. Then Elsa keeps wondering around Storybrooke and finds Anna’s necklace, but she was looking for something greater. She was looking for her sister, Anna.

Elsa In Storybrooke                                               

Angular Momentum

Angular Momentum

Last week on our physics class we had a really good time. Who knew physics could be fun? This happen on Friday and it was an interesting experience. Mr. Popoff, our physics teacher, brought some items from the Lab Room, which would demonstrate angular momentum. He brought a spinning pad, or table, but it’s more like a pad; he also brought a bike wheel with handles on each side, and finally one of my favorite items ever, a gyroscope. I've always liked the gyroscopes, because they look very fancy and elegant, but the type of gyroscope Mr. Popoff brought was a scientific one, it was still cool. For the first item, he presented the spinning pad; he stepped on to it with two weights on his hands and asked one of us students to spin him around. The way he spun was simple, at first he was spun with his arms stretched and as the student let go of him, he coiled his arms and he spun faster. The reason I think he spun faster when he coiled his arms, is that when his arms were stretched, the mass was distributed on the edges of the radius and so he spun slowly because of this. When he spun with his hand on his side, he spun faster, maybe because all the mass was in the center of the pad. Later he grabbed the bike wheel; he spun it and then placed it on the rope, and so the wheel remained on the rope spinning and did not fall for a couple of seconds. Then he grabbed the gyroscope, reeled a piece of thread in it and then he reeled it out with speed and the gyroscope spun on a small pedestal and did not fall, later Mr. Popoff told us to carry it and place it on the piece of thread, we did as told and incredibly it continue to spin and did not fall for a while. It was cool. The reason why both the bike and the gyroscope did not fall was because both conserved their own vertical angular momentum.

Introducing Leo's ONCE UPON A TIME Experience

Introducing Leo's ONCE UPON A TIME Experience

• Once Upon A Time is an ABC Channel Original series which is basically like a collage of all fairy tale stories like: Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Mulan, Sleeping Beauty and most recently The Snow Queen (FROZEN). This school year I’m planning to give this blog a twist for a while. Now instead of being “Leo’s Day By Day Experience”, this will now be “Leo’s Once Upon A Time Experience”.
• Every week I’ll be posting reviews and hypothesis about each Once Upon A Time’s episode for this Season. What I find so exciting about this season is the fact that they involved FROZEN. I don’t really know if it’s the excitement of actually having FROZEN in the series, or the fact that this season is much more exciting in the aspect of Drama and that entire sort. I quite love the roll that The Snow Queen plays because she’s kind of a silent/creepy villain which is quite attractive, to my personal opinion.
• The plan that The Snow Queen is trying to accomplish is really somewhat creepy, I mean who would have a sick and twisted mind to actually kill most of a town to make a perfect family; take that for twisted. 
• This week I’ll make a review about the first and second episode for this 4^th Season. I truthfully recommend this series, it’s really awesome in all aspects, I mean once you think you know what the character’s story is, you watch one of Once Upon A Time’s episodes, and you could really get surprised on watching how the series twists the stories and connects characters with each other.

Chemistry

Chemistry Demonstration Class

This week and last week we've been taught by our teacher Mr. Popoff, all about crystallization, saturated solutions, unsaturated solutions,Henry law and many more i’ll soon be defining and describing. Last week we were asked to bring a Coca Cola® can to class, we were not told why, we were just asked to bring them.  This Monday we had our Chemistry class, the class was basically like a demonstration on what crystallization really is, crystallization is the formation of solid crystals precipitating from a solution,melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas. In our latest chemistry class we had Laboratory project that taught us how to make crystallization happen with destilated water and ammonium chloride, basically this was done in a test tube with certain amount of ammonium chloride, destilated water in it, heat bathed on a beaker full of water.

We also were explained on what a solution equilibrium is, which is when the concentration of the solute is the same throughout a system. We also were demonstrated physically what a saturated and an unsaturated  solution looks like; Saturated solution are solutions which the maximum amount of solvent have been dissolved. Any more solute added will sit as crystals on the bottom of the test tube or container, and unsaturated solution are solutions in which the solute concentration is lower than its equilibrium solubility. We were also cleverly explained what a Super saturated solution is, its basically a solution where there are more particles or solutes than solvent in a solution.

The coke experiment was actually really cool. We had about seven or less coke cans, ones were room temperature and ones were icy cold, we were trying to see which one of those based on their temperature, would burst more, it turned out to be the icy cold cans.