Sometimes I wonder, as others have pointed out, if Kitsis and Horowitz scan the many forums to see what the popular theories are and add little things like the “shin splints” comment and moment to make people think “yep, Pinocchio” just to mess with us – when it will have NOTHING to do with Pinocchio or Peter Pan or a Lost Boy or Bae. It’s like with Ruby and the wolf. I think I saw one person somewhere who said they thought Ruby was the wolf but they only posted it once. The rest of the time we were obsessed with Dr. Whale – which they totally messed with us with the whole scene with Ruby leaving town with creeper Dr. Whale trying to pick up on her. So although I agree that I have seem numerous reasons to believe that August is Pinocchio, on this show I have come to realize if the evidence points to something – don’t look in that direction.