@Vampirefan12 wrote:
Katerina could be Aurora’s mother.
Given the information now about Princess Katerina being the Russian version of “Sleeping Beauty”, I think this makes the most sense since Aurora’s mother was also under the Sleeping Curse. I think her name was Briar Rose? Plus, with so much revolving around the conscious/unconscious this season, Katerina being Aurora’s mom fits.
@Lil’Red wrote:
She’s being linked to Neal’s fairytale backstory (possibly)
Ausiello: Help me solve this latest fairy tale riddle: The show is casting the role of Katerina, a regal beauty in her 40s who possesses elegance, poise and purity of spirit. Thoughts? Theories? Bueller? No? Let’s see what TVLine’s resident OUAT expert Mitovich has dug up: “There is a Princess Katerina who is the Russian version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ — which I suppose makes sense if Emma & Co. need yet another survivor of a sleeping spell to venture into the netherworld. But if the name is a foiler, this character almost reads like a ‘Glenda the Good Witch’-esque counterpart to Regina, and maybe she figures into someone’s fairytale land backstory.”
http://tvline.com/2012/11/27/once-upon-a-time-spoilers-community-true-blood-ask-ausiello/
It sort of seems that way, but elsewhere, people who are more familiar than I am with Michael Ausielllo, say that he does this all the time where someone asks him one question about a show, and he just totally disregards it by giving some other information.
It makes me bummed though because out of all the Neal is Baelfire + ______, him being the Wizard of Oz would bother me the least even though I know Oz is a magical place. (Of course, it feels like the Blue Fairy has been wrong about everything she’s ever said now that I’m prepared for her to be wrong about that too.) The biggest problem is that he’s a little bit too young though to be the Wizard and be Neal unless his story is unfinished there, but besides that I think it would be fitting in a way that Bae grew up to be a “wizard” in his own non-magical way.
It would fit in with the green vortex taking him from FTL. fairydust, who I haven’t seen around much had the great evidence about all the radio equipment in Neal’s apartment. Apparently whatever is in the box was red, so it could be the ruby slippers, even though in the book they were silver. Also, I don’t know if this will be Bae’s episode since that might be closer to the end of the season perhaps episode 19 since that was when we learned how he was lost in FTL last season, but I think MRJ should be back by this time since he’s starting to film again in December, and he said he would be the show a lot then so this new character could tie in with him or not.
This quote from Wikipedia about the Wizard stood out to be because of the ball of fire part not necessarily. Plus, out of all the characters so far, Baelfire is the one that we’ve seen the most of at different stages of his life even more so than Emma so far, so I guess that could fit him being in a different form every time he’s seen except that’s probably stretching it. It was more so about the Wizard appearing in the form of a ball of fire than anything else.
On each of these occasions, the Wizard appears in a different form, once as a giant head, once as a beautiful fairy, once as a ball of fire, and once as a horrible monster. When, at last, he grants an audience to all of them at once, he seems to be invisible—nothing but a disembodied voice.
I did read, but I’m not sure how true it is since I only saw it at one place so far that they weren’t going to tackle The Wizard of Oz this season which makes sense in that there’s already so much else going on. However, since the new movie, Oz: The Great and Powerful is also from Disney, I could see it strongly being suggested to K&H that they should find room somehow to work in The Wizard of Oz around the time the movie comes out in order to do cross promotion. Of course, I don’t think they would necessarily make K&H do so, but the movie comes out on March 8, and episode 15 of last year aired on March 11. Of course, this season started out earlier so episode 15 of this year will probably air sometime during February sweeps month and early enough to be part of the advertising blitz for Oz: The Great and the Powerful.
(Also, not that this is really evidence that Bae could be the Wizard of Oz, but I think that James Franco who is playing the Wizard of Oz, with his mustache looks like he could be MRJ’s little brother like in this picture.)
I think Bae will most likely be Bae, but it’s getting very difficult waiting to find out for sure.
ETA: Wrong picture.