Re: Mulan Spoiler

Jame Chung said: “There’s this evil spirit that’s moving and my character ends up bonding with Sleeping Beauty.

I agree that “evil spirit” could potentially be Maleficent. Recall how Regina has the power to disappear into thin air and travel to and from locations within FTL (1×1) and turn into animals like a mouse (which we saw in 1×2). If Maleficent has the same power, she could appear like a spirit, potentially. We already know that Maleficent can turn into a dragon. I really hope the actress who plays her will make guest appearance in S2. It already sounds like she might, based on the spoiler from Comic Con that Eddy and Adam “didn’t see a body” in the finale. Sounds like there’s a lot of potential to play with.

Phee wrote: Though, given that Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a spindle, it’d be surprising if our resident king of the spinning wheel isn’t involved in that story too.

I’m inferring you mean Rumpelstiltskin! I would love to see his tale woven into the classic Sleeping Beauty storyline here! Perhaps Maleficient curses Sleeping Beauty, but she pricks her finger on Rumpel’s spinning wheel.

I’m really interested to see how they choose to tell the Sleeping Beauty story, and how it’ll be woven into the timeline. Regina and Maleficent’s conversation suggests it all happened around the time Regina met Snow and Leopold.

I agree that the convo between Regina and Maleficent suggested the Sleeping Beauty story took place in the past. It’s not clear how far in the past though. Remember all those spoilers we saw about Mulan’s village? Jamie Chung has at least one scene with Prince Charming and Snow White, since they were filming together. So, Mulan is involved in their storyline, too. Perhaps Prince Phillip, Prince Charming, Mulan, and Snow White are all in on helping save Sleeping Beauty. Perhaps this storyline occurs after Prince Charming and Snow White are engaged and “taking back the kingdom” and before Regina unleashed the dark curse. Just a thought.

Unless it was just the falling asleep instead of dying that happened back then, and Phillip doesn’t wake her up until after that conversation between Maleficent and Regina happened?

I think that is a very real possibility. Perhaps Sleeping Beauty was in a coma state for a good amount of time, and then it happens Prince Phillip forms an alliance with Mulan later.

Would Mulan and Phillip being buddies confirm that she’s from FTL, and not some other realm?

I wonder about this, too. Perhaps Mulan is from a far-off kingdom, similarly to how Belle’s village was remote and foreign. It could also be that Jefferson’s hat doesn’t just go to different worlds, but also to different realms within the same world.