The green light coming out of that hole certainly does look potentially vortexy (technical term).
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Plus, it also explains why Emma and Snow were missing in the “first” episode, because something happens to them in the actual first episode that causes them to disappear. Charming thinks it has to do with Jefferson, so he chases after him whether it does or not I’m not sure.
I don’t really know if Regina was behind Emma’s and Snow’s disappearance, but it seems likely. I don’t know if they land in Wonderland, but I believe they did because I think Cora is the Queen of Hearts there. I think Wonderland ties in with the “first” episode only because Barbara Hershey and Bailee Madison were nearby. I just hope that Emma and Snow aren’t trapped their for more than one episode.
We had a double ep on TV here tonight, Hat Trick followed by Stable Boy, so I’ve got my Cora = QoH theory on the brain right now. I’m wondering if in 2×02 we’ll see the growing animosity between Regina and YoungSnow, and also between Regina and Cora. Then we’ll see Regina reach her breaking point with her mother and banish her to Wonderland. Cora was the one who was all about the marriage for status and power. Regina wasn’t interested in that stuff. So I’m envisioning Cora being really overbearing, trying to convince Regina to settle into her new role as Queen, and then eventually Regina snaps and is all, “YOU’RE the one who wanted this! So if you wanna be royalty so much, I can help you with that!” Then she sends her off to be trapped in Wonderland where she’ll become Queen of Hearts.
Showing us a bit of Wonderland, would tie in nicely if Jefferson’s realm jumping capabilities are also potentially going to be a plot point early on.
As for where Emma and Snow go, (assuming they do in fact go somewhere), it could be Wonderland, OR it could be Neverland, and maybe when they find a way back to SB, that’s how and when Hook sneaks into town as well by the same means. Perhaps?
First Episode: I think this is the episode that is being filmed now. While it would make sense to be an Emma episode right off the bat, I’m guessing it will be a Snowing episode mostly, because the spoilers about Prince Phillip and Aurora sound a little bit like Snowing’s story. Plus, I’m guessing Mulan being involved will tie in with the take back the kingdom line.
I’m still sticking with this being a Sleeping Beauty ep, and if it is, then it should be set earlier in time than the taking back of the kingdom storyline, because they established that Maleficent was younger when the Sleeping Beauty story went down. In that case, I wouldn’t expect to see Snowing stuff in the FTL flashbacks.
On the one hand, it could be seen as an odd choice for them to not pick up in FTL right where they left off, with a significant storyline about to kick off. But on the other hand, maybe it’d be overwhelming to have focus on Snowing in FTL at the same time as Snowing are coming back together in SB? Their stuff in SB won’t be MM/David, it’ll be Snow/Charming, they’ll in effect be re-establishing the characters we already know in a whole new light, because each of them are now two characters merged into one. It may be easer to keep the focus on that happening in SB, if the FTL storyline doesn’t feature them at all. But the Sleeping Beauty storyline could still be shown to have parallels to what’s happening in SB, because everyone is “waking up” from a curse.
Second Episode: I think this is a Regina episode since I think this is the episode that Barbara Hershey and Bailee Madison are going to be in. I don’t know if they were trying to throw off fans of the show by making it seem like this episode was the first episode or if it had something to do with the availability of someone like Barbara Hershey or Sebastian Stan.
I’m guessing it was more of a scheduling thing.
Third Episode: If the first episode is a Snowing episode, then I think this will be an Emma episode, or vice versa. All I have to go by is the casting call for Lancelot, but based on this,
The casting call described him as “Male, African-American, British accent, late 20s to early 30s. A sword-for-hire, he’s one of the most dangerous men in Fairy Tale Land, because he’s a man with nothing to lose. In his tragic past, he was torn from his true love and banished from the king and country he served. Though he says he now serves only himself and his fee, he can’t help but be guided by his sense of honor, the memory of the man he once was and his true nobility.
I think it might be an Emma-centric episode because she’s similar to Lancelot in that she’s a “gun-for-hire” in some respects, certainly one of the most dangerous women in Storybrooke, and did have nothing to lose at one point. Of course, there’s her tragic past that she has where she was sent away from her world to protect her, which isn’t the same as being banished, but to her low esteem self she probably won’t be really ready to accept that her parents were trying to protect her yet.
Nice parallels between Lancelot and Emma. Hadn’t thought about that.
We haven’t had any info about what ep Lancelot is in yet, have we? But I think ep 3 would make sense. He’s obviously going to be early on if they’ve already cast him, and as far as we know he’s not in 1, 2 or 4. His character sounds like someone they would have recruited in the battle for the kingdom, and going with my theories about the flashbacks for 1 & 2, by 3 they’d be wanting to get back to that storyline. I’m not entirely convinced he’s gonna survive in FTL, but with those similarities to Emma’s character, his deeds in flashbacks could be tied to present day events through Emma, if he doesn’t survive.
Then again, maybe this ep will be Mulan? She possibly helped with the taking back of the kingdom as well, and if there’s some realm jumping talk in eps 1 and 2, and if she came from another realm, (considering there was an Asian looking door in the hat), then they might wanna keep the theme going by introducing her at that point.
Guess we’ll find out soon enough who’ll be in ep 3 once they start shooting it and info leaks out.
Fourth Episode: This has to be a Rumple-centric episode based on casting calls for Beaman, which makes me think that it’s even more likely that Milha has got to be Rumple’s ex and Bae’s mom since this should be a Rumple-centric episode.
Yep, I think we’ll see a backstory with Rumple, Milha and Beaman, which will lead into the Hook storyline.