406: Press Release

ONCE UPON A TIME – “Family Business” – The race is on to track down the elusive Snow Queen, who was once a foster mother to a young Emma – whose memories of this event have been erased – in order to discover what her ultimate end game is for Elsa and the residents of Storybrooke, and unaware that she does not possess the real blade that controls The Dark One, Belle attempts to use it to get her reluctant husband to show her where the Snow Queen is hiding. Meanwhile, back in the past, Belle travels to Arendelle and, with Anna’s help, seeks out Grand Pabbie to help her regain her lost memories in order to discover the fate of her mother, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

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ABC

Is that even the official press release? I mean, this text is one mess of a mess – if that is the official one, the original wording by ABC, then whoever let that get out should be fired, that is no professional PR work. At best someone on the spoiler site did some very bad copy and past job. (I looked on the ABC medianet site myself, interesting thing is, the last press release on there for an episode is for 4×04, but not all press material send out by companies is always accessible for all public, so still not sure, considering that the info for the recent episode was legit enough, though still wonder about where queen and king of Arendelle were, it wasn’t on there mediasite either).

So Belle goes to regain her memory about something that happened to her mother. Let us guess, a certain blonde with ice cold appearance might have been involved in that? Makes me wonder, if Snow Queen does that herself on purpose, or if it is something that kinda happens to people afterwards, a kind of convenient curse which might be not so convenient after all.

Well, since I’ve never lived with magical people, I had no idea that memory loss was such a common occurrence.

I still think that a living witch, like Zelena, cast a spell over the Snow Queen that nobody who spoke to her would remember her, thus, she would never find love, or family. This is why nobody remembers, or knows her.
But, when that witch died, the spell was broken. And now, everyone remembers only recent convos with her, but not convos from the past.
Also why she doesn’t appear in the census, yet there is that picture that indicates she’s been in Storybrooke from the beginning.

So far, the only person who seems to know her from the past is…guess who…Gold.

Crack theory

Not a crack theory at all. It sounds quite plausible at this point. The only problem is, what dealings should Zelena have had with the Snow Queen back in the days? But, Zelena is a crazy witch, so everything is possible with her.

Though I think about the possibility, that it was something that was done to protect people, maybe even the Snow Queen, but backfired. Some stupid thing Grand Pabbie did.

Still musing about what the Snow Queen said about mirrors and wondering, why she is gathering mirror pieces. Which reminded me of an image from a Star Trek Next Generation episode (yeah, the miraculous ways minds can work), one of its best episodes actually, called Frame of Mind. Just in short: Will Riker kinda believes for a while to be a patient in a psychiatric ward, struggling with delusions, and with identity. There is a scene where fake, imagined worlds around him shatter like a mirror. Not exactly a new image, shattered mirror, but found it used in that TGN episode in one of the best visual ways. Shattered mirrors are a useful image for shattered identities, shattered minds, reflecting our persona (ah, did Bergman use in his movie Persona mirrors? have to take a look). So, shattered mirror -> shattered mind / identity -> part of our identity is to be recognized by other people as ourselves -> so Snow Queens identity sort of shattered and lost but less because she isn’t recognizing herself but because other aren’t recognizing her, not remembering her? To actually get a loving family you need to be remembered, recognized, visible (!). Just fractured ideas at this point though.

And, by the way, when Regina enacted the Dark Curse the first time, when it took all over, Regina standing in Emma’s nursery, Snow White on the floor, her dying husband David in her arms, it looks a bit like the world around the shattering as well. Just saying.

Elsa said, her mother never mentioned a sister – maybe because she didn’t remember she had one?

Pffft, miss the good old times of coming up with these kind of theories. The last time I really had this thrill was with Lake Nostos, the well in Storybrooke, when it turned out, indeed some of the theories coming from collective knowledge of and digging into myth, tales were dead on.

Frances O’Connor as Colette

So Belle’s mother is called Colette. I looked up the meaning, in case that sheds any clues. Colette is the French diminutive of Nicole, or Nicolette. The name means “people of victory” or the “people’s victory.”

The price is that anyone that has ever loved the Snow Queen will never remember her.

That would mean Colette and the the Snow Queen were in love? But why doesn’t Belle remember a thing?