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@Marilou wrote:
yeah… I could get behind that theory…
Well…it was fun while it lasted 😎
I asked Jane E. if Henry wrote the book and her answer was, No…Mary Margaret gave it to him. So nice of her to answer the question. I should have included the time travel part…it seems logical that at some point the travel part could still happen. If not, well…it was fun while it lasted. 😀
Interesting theory.
My one question would be this then: why was so much left out of it (like Dr. Frankenstein?)
Also, anything that happens in the past happened (using Lost logic since these writers worked on Lost). That means that in the past Henry had some book to go off of to wake him up and get Emma, right? Cause if he didn’t, then how would he have grown up and snapped out of it to write the book and send it to himself (via MM?)
It’s certainly an interesting theory and we know they’re not afraid to do some time-travelling here and there, but I’m more inclined to believe it was the BF at this point in time.
As for Jane – she says stuff sometimes but then learns new things in the writer’s room that’s kept under wraps. The book is rather important so I have a feeling not too many people know about it, possibly nobody but H&K (I know Jane Espenson is an executive consultant or whatever it is now but H&K are still the showrunners and know more of what’s going on than any of the individual writers along the way).
So while it is unlikely…I would take anything not stated by H&K with a grain of salt….and even H&K are shifty sometimes (but in a good way…I like it most of the time. It means they have a story to tell that they want us to be surprised by, whether the promo department likes that idea or not).
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Hmm, good point MysterKat. Since Frankenstein was left out that heavily implies that whoever wrote the book was from FTL. They’re probably also unaware of Neverland and Bae’s adventures there.
Ahaha- time travel is fun. You know how we’ve been wondering how on earth Henry ended up being the one adopted by Regina? What if adult-time-travel Henry is the one who Gold contacted about procuring a boy, and made sure infant Henry was the boy he got?
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
@thelonebamf wrote:
Hmm, good point MysterKat. Since Frankenstein was left out that heavily implies that whoever wrote the book was from FTL. They’re probably also unaware of Neverland and Bae’s adventures there.
Ahaha- time travel is fun. You know how we’ve been wondering how on earth Henry ended up being the one adopted by Regina? What if adult-time-travel Henry is the one who Gold contacted about procuring a boy, and made sure infant Henry was the boy he got?
Good points thelonebamf and Kat. NL is missing from the book but Bae in FTL is not. WL is also IN the book, so the writer had to know about that land. While Blue is still my first choice, Jefferson is my clear second if he had met Bae in WL without hearing Bae’s NL story, just his FTL one.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Hmm interesting idea. Jefferson would also be one of the only ones to know who he is the whole time…the only pesky detail there is how did he get the book to MM because he couldn’t leave his house until Emma showed up in town and Henry had the book for (I think a month) before that.
The part that really bugs me though is why hasn’t Snow said anything about the book since the curse broke? She has to know where she got it right?
She told us back in the pilot why she gave it to him, but she hasn’t said a peep since the curse broke and he’s had his book out lots of times, including to tell us that Dr. Frankenstein wasn’t in it. You would think she would have said something then, even if only to speculate as to WHY he wasn’t in the book. Something like “oh well that would make sense because so and so only knew of our world.”
Wonderland being in the book makes sense just because so many characters have crossed over with it – Cora becoming the Queen of Hearts, Jefferson being a realm jumper who was used by the Evil Queen etc. etc. The interest part to note is that for as many times as we’ve seen Henry look through the book, we still don’t know exactly what was in there and what was left out. He hasn’t always been able to easily identify everybody, even back when he was first sure that everybody in town was somebody. He’s still putting the pieces together himself just like the rest of them.
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the only pesky detail there is how did he get the book to MM because he couldn’t leave his house until Emma showed up in town and Henry had the book for (I think a month) before that.
True, but surely he could have mailed something to MM. OR he wrote it before the Curse hit and somehow got it to Blue. She lost her memories but retained the book and then 10 years ago without really knowing why, Mother Superior got it to MM who held on to it (again, without really knowing why) and then gave it to Henry.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I have thought Jefferson wrote the book for a few months now.
One way way Jefferson could’ve gotten the book to MM is this –If you notice, there are stacks and stacks of books in Jefferson’s house.
Regina and Jefferson have a relationship (strained as it its), but they have one.
He was the only other person in SB to keep his memories of ‘home’.
Being confined to his house, maybe Regina would take books to him sometimes.
After a while, she’d take the some of the ones he already read back to the school.
He takes the chance one day and has Regina (unknowingly) smuggle ‘the book’ out with a stack of others regular books.This would also explain how he could have written the end of the book.
No one else was in the nursery with Regina and Snow, so, how could someone write what happened? Or include certain things that are in the book if they weren’t there?
I think maybe Regina would ‘reminisce’ and/or brag about ‘the old days’ with Jefferson.
What would have been the harm, right?
He’s confined to his house. Who’s he gonna tel? And who would believe him anyway?And I think Jefferson wrote it while he was confined to his house in SB.
Notice when August added his story, he had all the supplies he needed to do that.
Book binding supplies.
Where could he possibly have been when he did that?
He sure wasn’t in his room at Granny’s B&B.
I think he was at Jefferson’s house….that’s where the supplies to do the job were because Jefferson wrote the book.Interesting ideas about Jefferson! One question though…when he arrives in SB with his memories intact and confined to his house…how does he know the parts for the end of the book either?
We still don’t know if he was still in Wonderland or if/when/how he got back to FTL before being transported to SB, but how would he have access to what happened in the final moments leading up to the curse? (I think that’s a sticking point for any theory sadly as there just wasn’t time to write anything before Emma was taken away and we saw the curse being enacted immediately after so how would Blue have even done as part of her final preparations?
I guess I see where the Henry from the future theory comes into play, I’m just trying to fix all the paradoxes and it’s making my head spin. Nobody seems to have had their memories AND have prior knowledge of the moments leading to the enacting of the curse. Nobody fits all the criteria, ahh!
Maybe somebody with magic, like Blue, was able to enchant a quill and have IT write the book? And it ends when the magic ends aka the curse is enacted? But why would it have gotten transported along with everything else?
It was not in Emma’s baby blanket. It was not on Pinocchio. I don’t think the wardrobe could have sent it through after the fact and even then, it would be stuck in the forest OUTSIDE of SB so again…how does it get there if written before?
Which circles back to Jefferson. I don’t think Regina did it because she seemed surprised to learn such a book existed and she was flipping through it like crazy and wanted to know what was in the last pages. Jefferson’s the only one who had his memories but again he was stuck and shouldn’t have knowledge of what happened right before unless part of his curse from Regina was to make him all knowing so everything would hurt him more but that doesn’t make sense either.
AHH! They better have a good explanation for the book someday.
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