ONCE050: Final season-two theories

September 27, 2012 by 7 Comments
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The last overall predictions and theories about what will happen in Once Upon a Time’s second season.

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ONCE050: Final season two theories

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Here is the first one: Will the new episode start with Storybrooke or the flashback?
Also here are some things I want to see:

  1. Of course we will see the rest of the final battle against Regina and George. We need to find out what James means by the line that she is no longer a queen.
  2. Will Emma get a true love and if so whom? a) Henry’s father (whoever he is just no) b) Graham (he is dead so I don’t believe that they will bring him back) c. August (if and when he comes back he is my choice) d. Jefferson (believe it or not I have read some fics where Jefferson and emma are paired together and they creep me out)
  3. I want to see more of Story Brooke’s “kids” surely there could be more than Henry, grace, and Hansel and Gretel. Also: it could be that Henry and gretel or hansel and Grace. then it could be HG and HG. lols.

Future fairy tales: Robin Hood, the Pied Piper, whichever form the book they have published, possibly the three little pigs or the gingerbread man.

Since the Greek myths are real (e.g. Midas and Gold) then the greek gods are real. Therefore I want to see them interacting. Also possibly gods of other long forgotten faiths like the norse gods.

As to other worlds: we need to see Neverland Wonderland (obviously) did we see the chocolate factory door? the door to Narnia?

(i do not want Narnia though because I do not want them to taint Aslan)

I am planning a premiere watching party with a few of my university friends, and I hope that whatever parties the chatroom is planning go well.

Tim aka AugustWBooth in chat

 

Greetings, Daniel (Not the Stable Boy Daniel,the OTHER one), Jenny, Jeremy, and Dan!

I am known across the web as The Storybrooke Observer. I have been catching up on your BRILLIANT/FANTASTIC podcast ALL summer long and am finally caught up! If any of your listeners also listen to The Fringe Podcast hosted by Clint and Darrell you may remember me as The RAGGEDY Observer. Now, for my ONCE theories & Observations:

Regina’s Dream

Is her dream more prophetic than nightmare? Now that everyone remembers who they are maybe they will want revenge (ie, Mother Superior telling Regina to hide at the end of  S1 Finale, World Without Magic)?

Doctor WHO?

I believe Dr. Whale is Peter Pan. Why? He has a childlike face, he was chasing all the Storybrooke women last season (Wendy anyone?), and the perfect curse for the Boy who never grows up is to grow up and become a doctor responsible for an entire town full of fairytale characters!

The Fate of August

You guys have said Dead is Dead. But, I ask you, is wood, wood? We have seen the blue fairy turn Pinocchio from wood to a real boy due to his sacrifice last season so now that MAGIC is in Storybrooke could history repeat itself?

Magic is Coming!

Will magic have a new set of rules in OUR World since OUR World is the World without Magic and will there be limitations?

The Prodigal Father

Is Henry (Jr.) ‘s father a fairytale character (Baelfire for instance?) and will he be making an appearance in Storybrooke this year?

There is More Than One of Everything

Will Emma travel down the rabbit hole (or Jefferson’s Hat) and venture into Oz or Wonderland? I think all those nods to OZ we got last year may be paid off this year, what do you guys think??

Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey

You guys have seemed a bit against time travel being used in Once Upon a Time. I, for one, am mystified by this as I believe it would fit perfectly within the worlds of the show. What is more magical and fairy-talish than time travel and parallel worlds?

Thanks for the marvelous podcast guys and here’s hoping for many, many, many, more!

The Storybrooke Observer

 

Hi Daniel!

Here are some of my theories for Season 2! …

Now that the Dark Curse has been broken, here are a few theories I have about Season 2:

  1. Snow, James, and Emma are finally reunited as a family!! I think Emma could have some resentment towards her parents for giving her up, but eventually forgive them as time goes on. Emma has never had a real family before so it will be interesting to see what happens. I don’t think Henry realized in Season 1 that Mary Margaret/Snow and James/David are his grandparents. I think he will get to know them and they’ll become close.
  2. My next theory involves Regina. With the curse broken and magic now coming to Storybrooke, Regina most likely already has a plan B to get her happy ending back. Based on Regina’s evil grin at the end of “A Land Without Magic” upon seeing the purple cloud engulf Storybrooke, she knows all is not lost.
  3. My last theory involves Rumple and Belle. Now that they have been reunited, admitted their love for each other, Rumple and Belle will finally have a future together. Rumple promised Belle he’d protect her in the finale so in Season 2, we could see him go back to his old Dark One ways. This will probably mean Rumple seeking revenge on Regina since she lied to him about Belle being dead, when Belle was really alive and well.

Thanks for reading my e-mail and hope to hear from you soon!

Thanks,
OnceFanErin

 

Hey Daniel & Once Podcast Crew,

This is obisgirl. I’m back from my two week vacation and I actually had an interesting OUAT dream while I was away. I dreamt that Dr. Whale had two identities in fairytale land: he was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I don’t know if Adam & Eddie ever plan to bring on monsters but it would certainly be an interesting twist to his character.

4 days now until Magic!!

obisgirl

 

Will we see a “pre-Emma time” this season? Like see Mr. Gold trying to get a baby for Regina or how Mary got the book?

I would love seeing that to fill in a couple of holes in the timeline.

Love your podcast! You guys are funny and insightful. And I’ll try to get sleep after catching up.

~kimmibear5

Guest1 called in live to share that he thinks there will be a third villain in season two.

Mary Fairy called in with a clever idea that Dr. Whale could be from the lesser-known fairy tale of the Crystal Ball.

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  • Anon

    Dead may not be dead. Lake Nostros. I think that it could bring back Daniel. (The older one frm like 70 years ago)

    • http://DanielJLewis.net/about Daniel J. Lewis

      “Bring him back? Oh, but he’s dead. Magic can do many things, but not that.” —Rumplestiltskin in “The Shepherd”

      • 17jeda

        But isn’t magic unpredictable here?

        • http://DanielJLewis.net/about Daniel J. Lewis

          Yes. But I think that means it just works differently, not that it can do things it couldn’t do before.

          NO RESURRECTIONS! :P

          • 17jeda

            well I do agree with you, just thought i’d add one of your favorite things to mention during ep 50 :D

  • http://twitter.com/queen_frostine Diana

    Regarding the discussion of the future magic of Regina, I doubt Gold/Rumple would have been able to rig things so that she either doesn’t have magic here or has defective magic. If the cloud that rolled over Storybrooke was magic itself (something Gold suggested when Belle asked him what he had done), I doubt its entrance was something either Gold or Regina could fine tune or control. That’s just too big, and would make Gold too omnipotent of a character. Magic seems like it’d be too wild of a force to enter a new environment in a way a single person could dictate.

    I may end up being wrong, but I suspect that when Gold brought magic to our world, he JUST brought the force of magic to our world and not a return of anyone’s powers. Everyone will be back to square one and forced to relearn magic. If characters like Gold have any advantage over anyone else, I think it’ll be the centuries of experience that he has behind him that could aid him in adapting to the magic of our world. In that scenario, he would hardly need to directly handicap Regina. In Fairytale Land the Evil Queen had magic, but apparently not so much that she didn’t need help from people like Maleficent, Rumplestiltskin or even Jefferson when she had a big task to perform. Given that Regina stopped in to see Rumple for help dealing with a mermaid in Skin Deep, I’m betting that she’s never performed a curse that wasn’t given to her by someone else. That shows a deficit in either knowledge, power or experience, and I think those are the things that will end up holding her back as she tries to regain her power in our world.

    Also I’m not a fan at all of the idea of characters of science fiction (like Frankenstein or Mr. Hyde) being on Once. I know if it happened the writers could spin these things as products of magic rather than science, but I have a much harder time meshing SciFi with the Medieval looking Enchanted Forest than I do moving characters of mythology into a world of Fairy Tales. Midas and the Siren worked because kings with magic powers and evil mer-creatures are shared elements between myth and fairytales and can thus be easily moved into a Fairytale setting. But Frankenstein and Jekyll/Hyde were more stories about Romantic/Victorian era Britain and the emerging spirit of scientific exploration of the time than they were about monsters. I have as much trouble seeing Frankenstein in the Enchanted Forest as I would Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. To make it happen, you’d have to remove too much of the heart and soul of the original stories and I’d rather not see that when there are so many fairytales, legends, and storybook tales that have yet to be used.

    • http://DanielJLewis.net/about Daniel J. Lewis

      Really good point, Diana, on bringing “sci-fi” into Once Upon a Time. I hadn’t thought of it in that way.

      Maybe Dr. Whale is another Greek god.