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I’ve started my OUAT rewatch a few days ago, and something Emma said really struck me in terms of how the season pans out.
Once in Storybrooke and after she meets Archie, Emma says something and Henry answers, “I’m not Pinochicco!” And Emma responds, “Yeah, because that would be ridiculous.”
I guess what I’m getting at is that Pinochicco is kind of one of the first people mentioned and Emma totally downplays it, but in fact, that character is the one who ends up making her start to believe and who rescued her. Maybe I’m just over thinking, but I just found the connection from that beginning line to the very end of the season interesting. Does this make any sense? I’m having trouble articulating what I’m trying to say 😆
[adrotate group="5"]I recently started my own rewatch and I had the same reaction to that line. Of course, it may also have been put in to help us understand very early in the show that Henry and Emma have no fairy tale counterparts. There is a lot of foreshadowing in those early episodes. From the very first scene in which Charming arrives at Snow White’s glass coffin and Doc speaks the same words, “You’re too late”, which Mother Superior will say to Emma when she arrives at Henry’s bedside in the finale to the clock ticking to 8:15 in both episodes, I was impressed how tightly interwoven the pilot is with the later episodes.
I missed the first few episodes of the online group rewatch so I don’t know if this was discussed in the chat but there is one scene in the pilot that confused me at the time and still does. When Emma steps out of her car upon first arriving in Storybrooke, there is a short on the power line in the background just as she slams the car door (you can see a picture of it at http://www.onceuponatimespace.com/pilotComment.html ). It was such a noticeable special effects shot I still wonder why they put it in. I don’t think it was ever explained during the season. Did they just add it for a dramatic effect to accompany the door slam or will it turn out to have some significance? I’m guessing it must be there for a reason. What does everyone else think?
It was such a noticeable special effects shot I still wonder why they put it in. I don’t think it was ever explained during the season. Did they just add it for a dramatic effect to accompany the door slam or will it turn out to have some significance? I’m guessing it must be there for a reason. What does everyone else think?
Maybe it was just a visual representation that “sparks” are now going to fly with Emma coming into town?
Maybe it was just a visual representation that “sparks” are now going to fly with Emma coming into town?
Oh! I like that.
I felt like it was the first sign that Emma’s presence has a physical effect on this town. I always liken the curse to something magnetic, designed to respond to Emma, the magnet. So Emma sets foot on Storybrooke soil for the very first time ever and sparks fly.
I thought it made sense that her presence alone would do something when her decision to actually stay starts the clock.
I caught that, too, in our rewatch. I think it was a nice tie in that the writers probably originally planned.
@TimeSpacer wrote:
When Emma steps out of her car upon first arriving in Storybrooke, there is a short on the power line in the background just as she slams the car door (you can see a picture of it at http://www.onceuponatimespace.com/pilotComment.html ). It was such a noticeable special effects shot I still wonder why they put it in. I don’t think it was ever explained during the season. Did they just add it for a dramatic effect to accompany the door slam or will it turn out to have some significance? I’m guessing it must be there for a reason. What does everyone else think?
I think that was them showing that Emma was effecting things. And i think Emma should have magic, so maybe because she was angry it caused that to happen physically. There are a lot of things that Emma does that cause things to happen. Like putting on the badge makes the caves fall in. Emma taking the key from Granny makes the clock move. Emma saying her name in front of Rumpel lets him get his memory back. And i think that even Emma blowing out the candle on her birthday makes Henry be there.
@hjbau wrote:
And i think that even Emma blowing out the candle on her birthday makes Henry be there.
As cool as that would be, I have to argue that Henry showing up just as Emma made that wish is just a coincidence. There’s just no way. Henry had already been on his way to find her, and as we all know there is no magic in this world. (Not yet anyway) 🙂
I know what you are saying because Henry was already on his way, but i disagree that there is completely no magic. Emma clearly causes things to happen. Gold remembers. The clock ticks. The cave falls in. Emma caused those things to happen, so there is no reason that she might not have caused other things to happen as well.
@hjbau wrote:
I know what you are saying because Henry was already on his way, but i disagree that there is completely no magic. Emma clearly causes things to happen. Gold remembers. The clock ticks. The cave falls in. Emma caused those things to happen, so there is no reason that she might not have caused other things to happen as well.
True… but all those things were in Storybrooke, not Boston or wherever Emma was. And I’m pretty sure the only reason those things happened were because Emma was weakening the curse, not necessarily because she was “using magic”. As Regina said, the only magic there was in the things she brought with her from the Enchanted Forest.
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