@Phee wrote:
I do love the idea of them accidentally landing somewhere other than FTL. Question is, how would they get there so soon? They’ve got the beanstalk cutting, but that won’t grow quick enough to give them beans by season’s end. Emma’s hat is still lying around somewhere, so I guess they could bring Jefferson back in if Emma remembers the hat and wants to see if they can get it working. I’d imagined that whenever they all leave SB, they’ll leave on Hook’s ship, which we know would work with a bean portal, but would it work with a hat portal? Or will another realm jumping option come to light before the finale?
I was listening to the Roundtable Once hosted last Wednesday and I think it was Daniel who proposed that given Greg Mendell’s name (father of Genetics, Gregor Mendal who worked with beans) he might be able to do something to get them to grow faster. Cora had to have a plan with those beans, that’s why she brought Anton to SB. That really needs to be explained. If they use Emma’s hat, they’d go the Door Room, and maybe the door to FTL has been destroyed because of the curse, so they have to go to another world first, using “back roads” as it were to get home to FTL. Be a great opportunity to see some other worlds: Neverland, Oz, Agrabah.