LIBRARY = LOSS OF FREEDOM

[NONNIE]

I was listening to dvmp podcast and they mentioned how the close library actually represent the LOSS OF FREEDOM. The towns people can not leave, can not read, no independent thought... no library which is the bastion of freedom.

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[hjbau]

That is a good point Nonnie. It does feel like that. The loss of information. The loss of the town records about the past. The collection of their history. That would be in a library, but none of that exists for them. I hope that the library comes into the story at some point. I wonder if there is something in there.

[slurpeez108]

The boarded up library reminds me of a totalitarian regime that burns books or blocks internet sites to prevent the spread of knowledge beyond what it wants people to believe in.

[rumplegoldfan]

See, I'm telling ya - it all goes back to the characters being able to think for themselves. Once they begin to think for themselves, they start to have flashbacks of who they really are. And isn't a library full of books a great way for people to start thinking for themselves? You read a book and start to theorize about why a certain character behaves a certain way, then you start to draw parallels about your own life. For the Storybrooke characters they would be reading about things they have never experienced before. It would almost guarentee they would choose to deviate from their Storybrooke course = thinking for themselves.

[King Arthur]

But where are Mary Margaret and David getting there books? MM says to David in Skin Deep "Oh, you got the book".
;(

[slurpeez108]

@ King Arthur: There's always amazon, but maybe they just borrow from each other.

[hjbau]

Maybe there is a bookstore for books, but that would not contain things like newspapers or the history of the town. Stuff like that. And maybe books are more out there now because of Henry being in town and now Emma. We can see that Henry must have effected Mary in some way because she gave Henry the book.

[rumplegoldfan]

You know, Regina didn't know about the book MM gave to Henry. I bet she doesn't know about the book MM recommended to David either. The school obviously has books - and we saw some of them, Regina knocked some off a desk when she went storming out of MM's classroom in the pilot after she accused MM of giving Henry her credit card. I'm guessing as Mayor of Storybrooke Regina has approval rights over school curriculum

[darcyfarrow]

We know that Gold helped build the town; it seems likely he was involved in planning the library. Got to be an interesting story there about who closed the library down and why. Of course, most public libraries are municipal departments, so they exist at the pleasure of the city council...which brings us directly to Regina. As a librarian myself, my second-most burning question (after the one whether Belle and Bae will find Gold) is who was the librarian? I'm looking forward to his or her triumphant return and the reopening of his/her domain.

[hjbau]

I don't think anyone built the town. I think the town just appeared when everyone moved from the fairytale land to the real world.