606 Title – Dark Waters

thedarkonedearie wrote:

Oh he’ll love that. Maybe this squid is the source of all the magic squid ink?????!!!

Another theory that randomly popped in my head is what if OUAT’s giant squid in 20,000 Leagues ended up being Ursula? It could be a way to get her back on the show. Not to mention, if this is a Hook centric, it would make sense if Ursula had tried getting revenge on him before. We’ve also never got their take on a giant Ursula, a key aspect of The Little Mermaid’s climax. However, the main thing that could poke a hole in this theory is that Merrin Dungey is currently a regular on the new ABC show, Conviction.

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Although, her sister runs the network, so…

However, I would rather see Giant Ursula with the goddess, rather than the witch, simply because it would demonstrate her great power.

So a thought just occurred to me.  A big problem I am starting to have with the show is the flashbacks aren’t feeling very organic anymore.  So when these guys were writing on LOST, I never felt a flashback was just thought of at the beginning of that season and then told subsequently a few episodes later.  I always thought that we got a snippit of a character’s life and that each flashback made sense and felt like they knew this story from the beginning and were just waiting for the right time to get to it.  With OUAT, I felt this was true for maybe the first 3 seasons.  But now, I feel like they think up new story lines for the upcoming season and then incorporate the main characters in present day and flashbacks to fit what they want to tell at that particular time.

So for example, all these untold stories….now our main characters are going to be tied to some of them.  This is a plan the writers never had from the start of the show when they were creating these characters.  So when you say that Hook seems like a Captain Ahab type with Rumple as the whale.  You’re right!  They do.  But that is such a thrown in and not organic at all.  They just want to tell the Moby Dick story so now all of a sudden Hook is thrown into this flashback, a flashback that was not thought up of until they started planning this season.  It’s frustrating, and it hinders the success of the flashbacks now.

Metaphor for a rescue mission, for all the souls Hades sent to the river?

Ha!

Edit: I actually think they could merge it with Moby Dick, and do a weird mashup of Verne and Melville *twitch*

Here’s a different passage about Dark Waters from MD:

Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their bites.