Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Right he certainly is in the novella….but there’s something quasi-heroic about him bringing all the forgotten stories to SB so that they might finish out their narratives.

I get the feeling that OUAT’s Hyde is at the “misguided fanatic” end of the evil spectrum. Doesn’t he come across like a bit of a cultist? Come to think of it,  OUAT never really had an “ideologue” villain to date, right? I can’t think of anyone, except for GOAT, but they hardly count.

I can see Hyde getting Jekyll to manufacture a large dose of serum and dumping it into SB’s water system, in order to liberate each person’s “stronger” self from the sniveling morass of morality. Or something like that. Maybe this ties into the unfinished stories — perhaps Hyde thinks the stories are unfinished because their protagonists are weak, and need an injection of ooomph.

I think there’s an interesting question in there somewhere about what constitutes “villainy” on OUAT.

However, I’m still waiting for a rather large villain to show after Hyde.  But maybe I’m wrong.

I definitely think they are gearing up to a “civil war” theme for S6. It would certainly be a way to get the existing audience to re-invest in the show and stick around. If they continue with what they’re setting up with EQ, Rumple, and J/H, the new theme is “morality/goodness/”light” is weakness.” I suppose it’s a reprise of Cora’s little mantra “love is weakness,” and we know Cora recanted at the end, so that’ll be the trajectory here too. The other theme is “you can’t stuff the darkness under the rug.” It’s less clear to me how they might handle that one.

 

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RumplesGirl wrote:

S6 is going to be about the war between the character’s two selves.

Which actually could be a better story line, if they do it right. That story line seems to suggest they will be focusing on a ton of character development within the original cast, which would be promising. However, I’m still waiting for a rather large villain to show after Hyde. But maybe I’m wrong.

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It would be interesting to see, but I’m hesitant about this idea that you can crush an aspect of yourself (which was the highlight of the conversation between Rumple and Regina). So, yeah they need to do it well.

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