@gallifry07
I have some fairly long posts on August as Tin Man, The White Knight and/or Pinocchio and/or other identities. I also made a post concerning The Oz Phone. So, you might find some ideas and thoughts we have in common there.
Your screen name points to Doctor Who so you may enjoy my unusual but “highly probable” alternate plots and theories OUAT may be something akin to a hybrid version of the BBC’s The Prisoner series, (island village, citizens, spies, eccentrics, altered personalities) but using fairy tales as programming of Monarch Pawns – except Storybrooke is a conversion lab and The Blue Fairy’s “magic,” the psychedelic drug used in conversion. Trust me, it goes on and on and may be waaay off track but if you like intrigue and falling through the bottom of the rabbit hole and beyond, you might enjoy my musings.
There’s a good chance I’m on to something – or parts, thereof. Then, again, OUAT may just be a simple Fairy Tale with name twists – but I’ve a hunch the writers just needed to lure us into believing the story thus far, first, before they reveal the next layer of what’s really going on.
If you’re a Friend of The Doctor, you’ll have a different way of thinking about what is possible – and I’d love your feedback, as well as, anyone else’s who also thinks there might be yet another layer to the onion.