OK, so safe to say that Charming wasn’t ever given Excalibur by Lady of the Lake then, so I’d say we can rule him and Snow out as being Arthur and Guinevere, and also rule out Snow’s complicated relationship with Lancelot being the big love affair.
I don’t put much stock in differences in show pilots. Those are shot in advance, before a show is even guaranteed, so by the time a show goes into production, things get set up properly and things get tweaked. That’s why I’m not really bothered by Snow’s comment about EQ thinking she was prettier than her. They were trying to sell the show with that pilot, and that’s a key element of the traditional story, so they slipped it in there purely because it was something familiar to the people who had to be drawn into the pilot in order to get the show the green light.
@Lil’Red wrote:
zlfh4 – Exactly! The balance needed to be restored from Charming killing the siren, and it ends up being his mother.
That’s a pretty cool idea!