Ummm, I hope no one reading this thread was trying to stay away from spoilerish photos! 😯 LOL
@rumplegoldfan wrote:
You know one thing I’ve wondered about since the very beginning of the show? Isn’t Gepetto a single man in, at least, the Disney version of Pinoccho? I don’t recall the story talking about a widower or maybe it just didn’t go into that much detail. But in the pilot episode when Emma is in jail in Storybrooke and (I can’t remember Gepetto’s SB name now, sorry) Gepetto is in the Sheriff’s office he makes a comment about how he wishes he had had children but he and his wife were never able to have children. I found the mention of his wife strange – where is this wife??
Geppetto didn’t have a wife in any version of the tale, (and we’ve seen no indication of a wife in Storybrooke). I just figured what Marco said to Emma was the story he believed from his implanted memories. Makes him miserable if he believes that he’s lost a wife AND that they never had a child, and Regina’s all about making people miserable coz they don’t have their happy ending.
BTW, from Geppetto’s wiki page: “Geppetto is introduced when carpenter Mister Antonio finds a talking block of pinewood which he was about to carve into a leg for his table. Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette, seeing a perfect opportunity, Antonio gives the block to Geppetto.” So it wouldn’t be veering much from the original tale if our version of Pinocchio had been carved from part of the magical tree.