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@EvilQueen wrote:
i’m skeptical. i’m hoping that the writers surely know how cliche zombies are right now and how it doesn’t quite fit the image of OUaT and FTL – I don’t want this to turn into just another FANTASY show, that is the magic of this series that all the characters are transformations of the characters we THINK we already know and that they show there might be more colors to them than we can imagine. It successfully connects the stories of different characters into one logical timeline and tells a great story with it. Zombies just don’t fit the bill.
I’m expecting that these “zombies” will be bit players, just to serve the plot of this one ep. Maybe the good guys will get to the stash of hearts and set it on fire and then they’ll all drop dead for good and that’s how they’ll escape. I can’t fault K&H for taking the opportunity to have a nod to zombies in an ep. Though they may be professional adult screenwriters, really, they’re always gonna be boys at heart, and zombie movies are probably something they love, so if they had the chance to indulge and have some zombies for a few scenes, they wanted to have some fun with it.
I’m sort of hoping that this must have something to do with ‘what’s dead is dead’, repeated so many times by Rumple (which seems SO IMPORTANT!) and that there is a nice explanation to why all of the sudden they are bringing Frankenstein and zombies up.
Frankenstein seemed really out of place to me when I first heard the theory. SciFi just didn’t seem to fit with Fairytales. But they were already not sticking strictly to fairytales. Alice in Wonderland wasn’t a fairytale. Wizard of Oz isn’t, and people are still hoping for that. And we have Captain Hook going to Neverland, and people are hoping to see Peter Pan. None of that is strictly “fairytale” either, they’re just storybooks. Granted, Frankenstein is a different genre of storybook, but a storybook nonetheless. Adam Horowitz tweeted someone that though he didn’t know it, Frankenstein’s world was indeed magical, so they have plans for how this is gonna play out, and how it’s gonna fit in, and I’m confident it’ll make sense. One of my main issues if Whale was Frankenstein was how they’d tie that character into the overall story in a believable way, but they achieved that perfectly IMO. It made sense to see Regina trying to bring back Daniel, and of course she’d use the guy whose hobby is reanimating the dead for that. And yes, everything about his character does address that “dead is dead” theme, and shows why dead should be dead, because it doesn’t tend to go so well when you try to defy that.