Interesting ideas, obisgirl. I’ve been wondering too where King George is, seeing as how he has yet to appear in Storybrooke. Your thoughts, though, almost seem too easy. I imagine there’s got to be something more dramatic. I’m falling in more along with the theory that King George is dead and that James will be the one to kill him—thus garnering him control of the castle. Then again, maybe King George isn’t dead. Could he possibly be sent into some sort of exile—either from King Midas or James?
Anyway, the man’s either dead (which might be a bit anticlimatic, unless James is the one who kills him), or he’s alive and that’ll be a big shocking cliffhanger near the end of the season when/if he pops up in Storybrooke. But either way, exile or death (in FTL) are the only ways in which I see how Snow and James end up finally being able to get married.