CHILD OF THE MOON- – FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE MOMENTS —

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Favorite Moments: Everything with Ruby and David. Josh and Meghan really have great chemistry together in their scenes. Very sibling-like, as Meghan Ory stated in an interview.

Least Favorite Moment: The fact that Wolf Ruby didn’t rip out Spencer’s throat! Man, I was so upset 😆 There was great opportunity there just to get rid of him. Okay, that would defeat the whole purpose of the theme that Ruby was not a monster, but still.

Though the CG wolves weren’t 100% great, I still thought they were cute, and well done for a Primetime show.

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@TheTrickster wrote:

@Gaultheria wrote:

But as I said, I don’t think so. It was more like the hero getting an amulet from the old wizard. You know, as Sigrud got the magic ring from the evil dwarf wizard before go to kill Fafnir and rescue the “sleeping beauty” that was Brinhild from her punishment -that was sleeping into a circle of flames until a hero could arrive til her.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what story does that refer to?

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@Gaultheria wrote:

But as I said, I don’t think so. It was more like the hero getting an amulet from the old wizard. You know, as Sigrud got the magic ring from the evil dwarf wizard before go to kill Fafnir and rescue the “sleeping beauty” that was Brinhild from her punishment -that was sleeping into a circle of flames until a hero could arrive til her.

I love your idea of this connection between OUAT and Wagner’s great set of operas, Der Ring Des Nibelungen! OUAT draws on so many universal themes that run through classical works of mythology that we can have great fun in finding parallels with other stories, whether it’s Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings, but I hadn’t thought of making the connection to Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Now that you’ve pointed it out though, I agree the imagery of Henry going through the flames to Aurora is very reminiscent of Siegfried going through the ring of fire to Brunhilde in Siegfried, as well as the fact that both Snow White and Brunhilde were under a sleeping curse..

Furthermore, Wagner’s whole theme of the world of the gods being destroyed, which comes to a climax in Gotterdammerung certainly reminds us of the near-total destruction of the Enchanted Forest in OUAT and the way the characters in Storybrooke have to adjust to life in a different world. We could start a whole new topic just to discuss these parallels. Maybe I’ll do that.

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@ceege wrote:

@TheTrickster wrote:

@Gaultheria wrote:

But as I said, I don’t think so. It was more like the hero getting an amulet from the old wizard. You know, as Sigrud got the magic ring from the evil dwarf wizard before go to kill Fafnir and rescue the “sleeping beauty” that was Brinhild from her punishment -that was sleeping into a circle of flames until a hero could arrive til her.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what story does that refer to?

Sigurd is a character from old Norse mythology. Sigurd was the basis for the character Siegfried in Richard Wagner’s opera, Siegfried, which is part of the four opera cycle Der Ring des Nibulungen. I think TheTrickster is right that there are a lot of great parallels between that classic story and OUAT.

(By the way, I never apologize for my ignorance – I just remember Mark Twain’s comment: “Everyone is ignorant; just on different subjects.”)

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I agree with pretty much everyone here, (including Stewart, but then again he is probably a new evil characters along with Cora – perhaps a partnership with Cora – but then, I digress)

The unselfish gift to Henry by Mr Gold has gotten me to musing about their relationship.

We know that Mr Gold is who found an infant for Reginia to adopt. We never really know how and why Henry was the one, and nor did Mr Gold before Emma showed up and reawakened his FTL memory.

But, there is the posibility that he felt a tenderness towards infant Henry that he hadn’t felt since he lost Bae, which is probably why Henry was brought to SB.

I predict that Mr Gold will always have a particular fondness for Henry and he will always protect him as a son “free of charge” whether he is Bae’s son or not.

Don't grow up. It's a trap.

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