@Possum Snoodle wrote:
Fun thought:
I believe a “Realm Jumper” may refer to Jefferson’s trade or ability and maybe, Realm Jumpers all wear hats and each Jumpers’ travels are different thus different doors. It would give an fun twist to the old phrase, “keep this secret under your hat.” Perhaps, hat sizes also indicate their ability/rank. Not every door will appear in every Jumper’s hat thus the doors in Jefferson’s hat are the one’s he has been to or been granted access to.When I first saw the hat used as a portal, I was immediately reminded of the old Krofft show, LIDSVILLE. Except, instead of tumbling directly into the destination, we find a room of doors within the hat much like a train roundhouse or airport concourse with its multiple gates.
It is quite obvious, the doors are all different so as to suggest they lead to other Realms. I immediately thought, “oh, that door must go to..here….that door to there….,” etc., and I believe we are all correct in thinking this is the case. My initial thoughts, based on the visual clues of the doors were:
OZ – the “man behind the green curtain” and what looks like the Z in the O indication on the curtain.
Gothic Realm – one of the heavy stone doors maybe w/ the architectural peak in the door shape
Nightmares – again, a stone door but a different place than Gothic
Camelot or Sherwood Forest– the wooden door with stone
Egyptian Mythos – the door with what looks like hieroglyphs
Tales of The Orient – the very red door but maybe not all Asian legends under one Realm/Dynasty
World of Pure Imagination – Wonkavator looking door – it seemed so obvious to me…I love WW. If not that, it’s Virtual Worlds of some sort, like WofW, Second Life, Tron.
Earth – the Storybrooke or Kansas portal, the “All-American” house door.
Atlantis or Faery Realm – the blue door.
Asgard, Valhalla – maybe one of the stone doors…and I had to wonder if some doors may lead to Realms in reference to: Sanskrit, Arabian Knights, Native American, and almost every sort of legend and story from every culture, known and unknown to us. I do love the idea we may see cross-over characters who may have dual or multiple identities like, who did Alice become after becoming a Queen in Wonderland or Dorothy, after she was Queen in Oz, the Tin Man, after ruling as Emperor of WinkieLand…and so on. If Time is also able to be altered or bent, we get really bizarre possibilities, like, The Hatter/Jefferson could also be Bae, who is also The Wizard and maybe “the desperate man,” Zoso – and even Henry’s Father; endless twists!
I like the idea of realm jumpers. Emma is probably a realm jumper; which can explain why Henry said that she was the only one that can do it and Jefferson saying she has magic by forcing her to make a hat for him.