@slurpeez108 wrote:
The fact that Jefferson said there are many worlds, all with their own rules, some with magic and some without like this one we’re living in, solidifies my point. FTL has magic whereas our world did not any magic until Mr. Gold brought magic here. Also, each world has its own rules, and not just in a metaphysical sense; each world has its own laws, and our world is governed by phsycial laws whereas magic is what powers/governs FTL. Also, Jefferson makes it sound like these worlds are in parallel dimensions in the way that they “touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands.”
Have to clear something up, about why I said it’s more in a metaphysical sense. Metaphysics include physics, nature, but it goes beyond. It’s as much about how we perceive, experience and approach our world(s), what we believe it is powered by (to use the phrasing of the Blue Fairy). In other words,think it’s of little importance if their lights (if understood as sun, moon and alike) in FTL are thought to be powered by fairy dust or are powered by fairy dust, while our lights (sun) works with nuclear fusion, or at least we are convinced we have figured out with science, that this is how our sun works.
But I agree, there is enough prove in the episodes to be sure, there is more than one world. And the quote shows, the writers are using the land and world synonym in this context.
@Gypsy wrote:
Slurpeez –
And fairy dust seems to have the power to change the rules of any given world….look what happened when some fairy dust found it’s way to a dwarf egg…dwarfs don’t fall in love… but Dreamy/Grumpy did 🙂
It changed Dreamy / Grumpy, didn’t change the rule in general. Or maybe it did, indirectly. Or to phrase it differently: that dwarfs don’t fall in love was a rule not a fact (natural law) of the Fairy Tale world. It was something everybody was convinced to be true, but it never was true, it just never had happened before (or no one remembered it did). Admittedly, never liked the notion, that the fairy dust made Dreamy dream, as if dwarfs doesn’t have the ability to dream at all (it makes them look like a kind of biological robots of FTL, only programmed to work and work and work), but they somehow had to make a connection to Nova.
Fairy dust might power FTL but is not all powerful.
Lancelot: It’s poisoned.(about the arrow which wounded Ruth, Charming’s mother)
Prince Charming: Then we find an antidote.
Snow White: With the fairies. They can help us.
Lancelot: No. I’m afraid this is going to take something stronger than fairy dust.
Of course, Lancelot is not as a reliable source as Blue Fairy, might not know that much about the basics of magic, but think fairy dust has some limits.
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