@A_Desperate_Soul wrote:
And I also don’t think the writers would attribute a well-known fairytale object to a character and then forget about it. Usually, when the writers give us clues, they mean something. I don’t think the writers would give Bae the magic bean, only to come back and say, “yeah but we only did that to introduce a less important character later on.” 😆
True, it would seem kind of redundant to introduce a second character who used a magic bean, now that we’ve already seen someone do it, especially considering it was a boy who used it as a means to transport himself between two places, in both the original fairytale and the Once version. Beans are a significant item from ONE famous fairytale, if people hear “magic beans”, they instantly think “Jack and the Beanstalk”. So if they didn’t want there to be an association, they could have easily come up with some other way for Bae to have opened up a vortex to another world.