@KalliopeKisees wrote:
@ cruel_fortuna. Its actualy the J. R. R. Tolkien symbol to be exact.
When pics of the amulet hit the internets, there was much speculation as to what the symbol was. The closest match anyone found was that it’s the alchemical symbol for arsenic, just upside down: http://epistolaryconnotations.tumblr.com/post/31540430648/omg-you-guys-i-found-it
Also… I swear there are more than one warith in FTL and that several other people were marked.
I’d have to go back and re-watch, but I swear Mulan said there were more. Obviously we only saw one of them in this ep, but I don’t see a reason why there wouldn’t be more of them roaming around.
@JeremyLaughlin wrote:
I’m going to put this out there: as someone else mentioned earlier, things were said in episodes 1 and 2 that I imagine the writers now regret. Regina’s “with a simple kiss” comment to Maleficent makes no sense coming from a woman who had previously (timeline-wise) told Belle that any curse can be broken by true love’s kiss. Now, occasionally, we’ll find reason to have to ignore these comments, but I think they’re largely contained to the first two episodes of the series. Mentioning that Maleficent attacked both the Aurora we see AND her mother may be a cover for this, or it may be simply to account for the fact that the story of “Sleeping Beauty” exists in our storybooks—meaning it must have happened pre-curse in some form—but is also now happening post-curse.
Yeah, I’m generally pretty forgiving of any inconsistency with the first couple of eps.
The Sleeping Beauty story we know: Aurora is cursed by Maleficent, falls asleep for however long after the good fairies tweak the curse, then is woken by Phillip’s kiss, then he slays DragonMaleficent and they live happily ever after.
In the Once story, DragonMaleficent isn’t slain by Phillip in FTL. It was a cool nod to the story we know that they still had her being slain by someone throwing a sword into her chest, but let’s not confuse that with actual FTL historical events. DragonMaleficent being slain was written into the story we have in books/movies in our world, it’s the story we all grew up knowing, even though that’s not how the story actually happened in FTL history. So I think that along with the traditional ending being tossed out, we can also toss out their names, meaning that the REAL, historical Sleeping Beauty story didn’t actually involve two people named Aurora and Phillip.
It’s looking like in the Once version, Maleficent had it out for Aurora’s mother and cursed her. She escaped the curse, most likely by being kissed by Aurora’s father. Maleficent then “soldiered on” not by getting over it, but by focusing her attentions on their daughter next. Maybe she didn’t intend for the sleeping curse to stick with Aurora either, she just thought a bit of history repeating would be fun times. Or maybe she did try the same thing again, and once again, good fairies intervened and made it a breakable sleeping curse instead.
Mulan asks Aurora how she came to be cursed, and she replies, “You’re not the only one who knows about sacrifice,” so there’s gonna be more to this story, and it’s gonna be good stuff.