Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

Finally caught other roomie up on the show, all the way. Watched 315 and ended up cracking up through the death scene – not because it was funny of course, but because other roomie repeatedly shouted at the TV – “Kiss him! KISS HIM ALREADY!!” She was VERY aggravated by the lack of a TLK, because it made no sense to her… as a non-shippy viewer. Just reiterates what we have been saying about that. Incidentally at the end of the scene, she very adamantly declared, “He’s not dead.”

Couple things of note – Regina’s line in 313 really stuck out to us. She says, “There’s a fire in the courtyard that powers the spell.” When we see the courtyard where this fire eminates from, it looks awfully reminiscent of the Wizard’s chamber in WoO. And of course, “fire” being the impetus for the spell… I dunno. Just seems like there is something there.

Also, they seem to be doing some sort of Robin Hood/Neal parallel. 1) He’s a thief, 2) he references losing his child’s mother in the course of the job, 3) he references specifically not liking to use magic unless it was the only way. Think there might have been a thing or two that I forgot, but it was just something I noticed in 12-15.

Literally as I was typing that out, I was pondering what the point would be – then remembered A&E’s recent insisting that Emma & Regina are a lot alike. If RH & Neal are alike and E&R are alike then OQ & SF are a lot alike? Incidentally, if RH & R are being utilized as some sort of SF parallel (and realize here I am talking from a “there is more SF story to tell” viewpoint) then it makes their weird insertion in this episode a bit more palatable. (I definitely did think SF when RH went straight to the “have a drink” thing, but I figured it was just ship-bias.)