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[EVIL QUEEN]
Mirror mirror on the wall
I'm tortured by some spell
Mirror mirror on the wall
Please save me from this hell

[MIRROR]
Snow and Charming made a wish
Now everything has changed

[EVIL QUEEN]
Oh great you're singing too
This whole thing is deranged

[MIRROR]
A spell as strong as this
Won't be easy to defeat
Your curse might not succeed
With your kingdom singing songs so sweet

[GRUMPY]
It's time to work
Let's go
Not a thing to make me bristle
With a heigh, heigh, heigh
And a ho, ho, ho
I'll mine that mine and whistle

[GEPETTO]
He's really not a toy
There's a lifetime to enjoy
The happy things
He's got no strings
Cause he's a-my real boy

[GRANNY]
La, la
Princess on her way
La, la
Though I'm old and gray
Happy times are here to stay

[SNOW WHITE & CHARMING]
Since we found a lucky break
Now let our song show the powerful magic
We can make!

[EVIL QUEEN, spoken]
Enough!
So, the Charmings think their love is strong enough to defeat me?
Well, there's one thing they don't know

Mirror, mirror could not be clearer
That love is a waste of time
I'm here to tell you with love's magic spell
You cannot match the power of mine
Once I loved and once I learned
Love is weakness
Love will leave you burned

Down with love, down with hope
Don't need blind faith to cope
Or inspiring songs in my heart
Got the magic I need
For my darkest of deeds
Love at times can entrance
But love doesn't stand a chance
Love doesn't stand a chance

Mirror, mirror the time draws nearer
For me to enact my curse
Those happy feelings
That send them reeling
Will soon become the reverse

Down with love, down with hope
Don't need blind faith to cope
Or inspiring songs in my heart
Got the magic I need
For my darkest of deeds
Love at times can entrance
But love doesn't stand a chance
Love doesn't stand a chance

Stole my shot at one true love
That's what she did to me
Now that little bitch will wish
She never ever knew me!

Down with love, down with dreams
Down with goodness' schemes
Gonna rip the song
Right from their hearts
Got the magic I need
For my darkest of deeds
Watch my curse kill romance oh,
Love doesn't stand a chance
No, no, love doesn't stand a chance!

This is my third tribute (here's the second) to one of my all-time favorite TV series - "Once Upon a Time", a story about a modern city where everyone actually is a fairytale character, with a lot of twists, cliffhangers, magic and drama. I'm still hoping to build tributes to some other characters as well, but it takes a lot of time.

Also this is the third and final tribute to the musical episode, in which Snow White's wish upon a star accidentally made everyone in the Enchanted Forest to sing. Actually this is my personal favorite song from the episode, though I think "Wicked always wins" is better (because it sounds just like innocent "I want" song from good girl's POV at some prom musical, but the lyrics are about cruel revenge over Witch's sister). Lana Parrilla's voice is so EPIC here! True Evil Queen! All hail the Queen!

So, let me introduce you my favorite character from the series - Regina Mills, mayor of Storybrooke and The Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest! :D I'm absolutely a fan of all of her versions of herself - I rooted for her when she was a villainess (well, I'm not a fan of Snow and Prince Charming, I respect them as Emma's parents and overall good people, but for me they are like walking boring love stories cliché), and I equally rooted for her when she joined the heroes and took a long path to redeem herself.

SPOILER ALERT!

I'm absolutely delighted that her happy ending was to be crowned as The Good Queen of the United Realms, and to find a chosen family of her friends (her adopted son Henry, Emma, Snow White, her sister Zelena, etc). Someone would say what about Robin Hood? Well, I'm not a fan of him, but okay, whatever makes my Queen happy. Yes, I was sad for her, when he died, because she was heartbroken, but I'm glad in the end he didn't became the plot "solution" to her problem, because her problem was that she hated herself, and she needed to accept herself, which she finally did, but that's the story for another time.

Well, speaking of endings... I'm thinking a lot about how the 7th season is literally a reboot of 1st season, with a story of the child who went to their another parent's house to ask that parent to come with them to break a Dark Curse cast upon city, with that parent agreeing to come with the child to that city and so meeting the parent who's actually raising that child. Both seasons have a scene where the child is under a sleeping curse and the another parent is trying to break the curse with True Love's kiss. On the other note, both season's Dark Curses are broken by True Love's kiss between a parent and a child from the 1st season, with it being from the another parent to the child in the 1st season and from the (now grown-up) child to the raising parent in the 7th season. Which shows that the two-parents-and-child story from the 1st season was written in the stars as well as the two-parents-and-child story from the 7th season, though it's a two different families and the first one is not entirely blood related. So, if the 7th season parallels 1st season, then little Henry (the child) is Lucy, Emma (the another parent) is adult Henry and Regina (the raising parent) is Jacinda aka Cinderella. It's simple logic. Just saying. :)

Okay, back to the song. For the context, it's a flashback from the past, where then-evil Queen is plotting to take the revenge on her stepdaughter Snow White, because when Snow was a kid she ratted (with good intentions) young Regina's plan to run away with her boyfriend Daniel (stable's boy) to Regina's mother Cora, and Cora killed Daniel in front of Regina, so Regina had to marry King Leopold instead (as Cora plotted), and that's why she started to hate Snow, who is also his daughter from his first wife. In this episode Snow made a wish upon a star to help her unborn daughter Emma to have a chance of a happy ending, the wish was granted by a Blue Fairy, and because of that wish everyone in the Enchanted Forest started to sing instead of speaking, and Snow and Charming thought that they can defeat the Evil Queen with the power of the song. So the Queen realised she have to do something, or her Dark Curse (the one which will send everyone to Storybrooke later and make them forget who they are) might not succeed, so she decided to steal the songs from everyone's heart (which she did with the help of the box she found in her vault, which was actually placed here by Zelena, who wanted to take revenge on Regina by making her to achieve her goal and then Zelena would appear to ruin it with revealing that actually it was Zelena who did it). Sounds evil, but actually by doing so she kind of SAVED everyone in the future, because the power of the song was never meant to defeat her, Blue Fairy needed Queen to steal the whole kingdom's power of the song so Blue could place it in Emma's heart to help Emma win the Final Battle against the very powerful villain in the distant future. That's what I call great writing!

I enjoy the song, because it's such a mood (yeah, I was supposed to post it on the day it was taken but I was too tired so I couldn't finish writing the description in time). :D

Speaking of the picture, Queen's clothes in the episode were dark gold, but Lego never released anything even remotely close. In some episodes her clothes were dark red and I wanted to use that red skirt as coat's tail like the one in the musical episode, so I made the entire outfit red. Yes, a year later I've finally decided which scenes I want to use for another tributes (just a few more and that would be a wrap on the project unless one day I would find time and ideas for more characters: I decided that I better skip the characters I'm not a fan of, so I could use that time to watch another TV series and possibly make tributes to it), so I suppose to recreate Evil Queen's iconic black dress look for another picture, so she would look more recognizable.

You can watch the full scene here:

The Queen Sings + Love Doesn't Stand a Chance - Once Upon A Time (Season 6, Episode 20 "The Song in Your Hearts" aka The Musical Episode)
The Evil Queen's Song "Love Doesn't Stand A Chance" - official karaoke HD version, but without the beginning with The Mirror and others

Also don't miss her musical battle with the Charmings, where she sings a reprise of that song, and that's even more epic:

Charmings vs Evil Queen - Once Upon A Time (Season 6, Episode 20 "The Song in Your Hearts" aka The Musical Episode)

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