@myril wrote:
Looks like killing off Sheriff Graham on the show traumatized a lot of people for the rest of their (OUaT) lives. Maybe should launch a virtual therapy group. 😉
That is interesting about the dart game cricket. But, btw, the term hat-trick is used in many sports, it is said to come from the bat-and-ball game cricket.
Think whatever cricket version the writers thought of, we should expect that there will some sort of game or match go on (plenty of players, teams in town) – and a good guess is that Archie is right in the middle of it. Stating just the obvious. 😛
Archie comes with some baggage. He became a cricket and the conscience because he felt guilty. Remember, he is responsible, that Geppetto lost his parents. He knew Rumple, his parents had dealings with him. Jiminey didn’t manage to leave his awful parents on his own and asked Rumple for a way to get free of them. The potion he got though was later switched by Archies’s father, and so instead Geppetto’s parents were turned into wooden puppets (and those can be found in Mr. Gold’s shop). Maybe Hook or Cora get to him because of all that, appealing to Archie’s still existing guilty feelings. Not to mention he is probably the only one trying to give Regina a real chance – not least because Archie believes in redemption for his own good. Archie might try to mediate and then make things only worse for everybody.
There are so many ways this episode could go. We did see Graham throw a hat trick when he was throwing darts in Granny’s diner during the Heart is a Lonley Hunter episode. Of course the word hat trick also has the image of three things going into a hat…so we think of Jefferson. And then in the episode with Archie and his parents we have Archie and his parents trying to trick Gepetto’s parents…and we have Archie trying to trick his own parents…and we have Archie’s parents trying to trick him. In the Cricket Game we have Regina’s mother showing up…and of course Regina tried to trick her mother sending Hook in to kill her and we end up with Cora tricking Regina by pretending to be dead. We have Hook coming…who tricked Rumple into thinking he had the bean in his hand. We have Emma who tricked Hook when she hand-cuffed him. Lots of tricking going on.
Seeing that this is the first episode we have where Cora and Rumple will be back in Storybrooke it seems that this will not just be a Archie centered episode. How they decide to play this out will be very interesting.