RG, that’s cool that Adam replied to confirm the Rumple ep!
Having just watched the whole CC Panel just before, there was this:
Q: I want to know if we will find out what mermaid Regina was so interested about that she went to Rumple.
A: That’s a great question. I know, ah, that anything can happen in Neverland. Watch season 3.
So…Regina has a connection to a mermaid who has a connection to NL which is the place Tink is associated with?
So…Did Rumple refuse to help Regina with her “mermaid problem” and kick her out so he could be emo over what she’d just told him about Belle? And then did Tink pop up to help Regina with the “mermaid problem” instead and that’s how Ariel ended up in NL? “Oh I can take that mermaid off your hands, no probs. I know of a fun place you can send her to.” What problem did Regina have with Ariel to begin with? Will it be related to her wanting to become human? Does this mean Regina will fill the role of Ursula? Or was Ariel sent to NL still as a mermaid and there’ll be a whole other story with Ursula and Ariel getting her legs in NL?
Would it be too early for them to show the circumstances of Henry’s adoption? For some reason I wasn’t expecting SB flashbacks early in the season. But perhaps it’d actually be perfect timing now that Regina is going to find him in present day?
If PP and Tink = THO involvement, and if THO were involved with Henry’s adoption, then it could actually fit nicely if we see flashbacks to Tink being involved in helping Regina separate Ariel from her father and contrast it with Tink being somehow involved with helping Regina get Henry, who is being separated from his birth mother.
I need to ponder this some more, but my head is starting to hurt.
Perhaps Regina made a deal with Tink to give Snow the fairy dust.
But what would Regina gain from that? Snow was keeping that dust to use on Regina. Unless it’s another case like Cora with the candle where she inadvertently handed Snow the weapon to be used against her?
I’m not ready to rule out Tink being the one who gave Snow the fairy dust yet, but if it is the case, I don’t think we’ll see it until a Snow centric ep later in the season. If Tink isn’t showing up until ep3 and the Snowing ep is ep2, then we can’t be seeing Snow get fairy dust from Tink yet.
I’m thinking that ep2 will have to involve Snow’s time with RH, (who has been re-cast, so we must be seeing him early on in the season). And hasn’t there been talk about David having gone off on his own at some point in his pre-Snow days and people were wondering if maybe he also spent time with RH and that’s where he learned to swordfight? So perhaps in the ep2 Snowing centric, we’ll see flashbacks to times when both Snow and David were with RH? I’m imagining a situation where they only missed meeting each other by a day or so, and whichever one was there first says goodbye to RH right before the other one happens to come along.