@Keb wrote:
This one little clip made me tear up and I can’t even hear the whole conversation. This episode is going to have so many feels…
But I’m coming up with a more complex theory on what The Curse personalities were. They weren’t completely opposite–I think it enhanced the weaknesses of each character rather than changing them completely. After all, what’s Belle do in FTL after Rumple kicks her out? She goes and hangs out at the local tavern, drinking and reading (and giving Dreamy advice). Mary Margaret didn’t stop being a caring, friendly person–she just stopped fighting and standing up for herself and always doing the right thing. Archie let Regina make him do things he thought were wrong, going against his conscious–but that’s exactly what his parents once did to him, and exactly why he became a Cricket in FTL.
So I think it’s more complicated and deeper than just a whole different life–I think it does draw out the character’s flaws and makes them act on those flaws instead of in the ways that they overcame those flaws (Belle post-Mulan adventure is much more determined and strong (not that it does her a whole lot of good), Snow finds a way to fight back instead of being sacrificial, Jiminy finds a way to do what’s right…etc.) I’m really interested to see Lacey because I want to see how well this theory holds up.
I like this theory.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass