I have no idea where to put this because it’s two new yet minor spoilers to me, but both about different things. Since I’m obsessed with this topic, I’ll put it here because of a theory I have already about one of the spoilers.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mega-Buzz-Greys-1054166.aspx
You promised Once Upon a Time scoop on the fate of Pinocchio and how Prince Charming and Snow White would take back their kingdom! — Joseph
NATALIE: And I will keep my word! This season’s third episode will feature a fairy-tale land flashback to Snow and Charming’s post-reunion plan — and there will be familiar faces helping them along the way. “We’ve seen their war council,” executive producer Adam Horowitz says. “Snow’s got a really great relationship with Red, and I think that is a story we want to tell.” Horowitz also promises that August’s fate — whether he’s dead now because he went all wooden — will be explained in this Sunday’s episode, but fear not because Eion Bailey has already returned to filming this season!
I’m not really interested in the Snowing spoiler as I am the August spoiler. I’m just going to put it out there that I think August’s return ties in with the Mysterious Man somehow.
First, we know that MR-J isn’t in episode 2, 3, 4, and likely 5 because it’s Dr. Whale’s episode unless he gets a quick scene at the end to set up episode 6. Of course, I don’t know for sure that he’ll be in episode 6, but I would almost bet real money at this point that he will be. It’s the big Emma-centric episode. There’s reliable spoilers that this is where we finally learn who the baby daddy is. Plus, we’re suppose to learn a lot more about the Mysterious Man before the mid-season break. Since it’s likely we won’t learn that much in episode 7 because MR-J isn’t even around right now shooting it, and because it’s a Ruby-centric episode, that means that 6, 8, and/or 9 have to be where we find out more about him.
Second, I’m not sure if Pinocchio did send Mysterious Man the postcard. I think that he could have before he turned to wood completely thinking that it may have been his last chance to save himself if he could bring the real Bae there by lying to him about the Curse being broken. Or maybe he’s a living puppet that sent it.
I do think that they know each other somehow because obviously I think Mysterious Man is Baelfire, and I think that Baelfire was the one that told August about Rumple’s dagger, and to fool Rumple into thinking that August was Bae by adding intimate details like to call Rumple, “papa” and the drawing of what the Dagger looked like. Sure it’s possible that the Blue Fairy was involved, but I think her meeting with August was just a red herring perhaps suggested by Bae to August to fool Rumple even more into believing August was Bae, because I think only Bae would have known some of the details that August knew about.
While I’m not sure Bae will actually return to Storybrooke in the first half of the season anymore after finding out that residents of Storybrooke will lose their memories if they do venture outside city limits, and knowing that the favor that Emma still owes Rumple will be a factor this year, I do think we’ll learn more about him before the mid-season break through his connection with August.