Enchanted Forest

[Slurpeez]

So, Rumpel and Regina both knew that the Enchanted Forest survives. Why keep it secret? It seems like they had some end-goal to return there eventually.

[adamchapman]

Keeping it secret ensures that they don’t have to deal with all the characters constantly attacking them to return them to FTL somehow. If they think that FTL doesn’t exist, they’re forced to go about their lives, and make peace with their situation. Plus from a writer’s standpoint, it makes much more sense to go this route, so that you can have a status quo that is easy to keep track of going forwards. Don’t want TOO many story elements that they have to juggle in the air, it makes it harder to tell quality stories when they have so much to keep in mind.

[surayya]

All I can say is ‘I KNEW IT’! 😆 Other than that, I agree with AdamChampman.

[Killian Jones]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

So, Rumpel and Regina both knew that the Enchanted Forest survives. Why keep it secret? It seems like they had some end-goal to return there eventually.

Ok so maybe they kept a piece of the enchanted forest to leave all the things they didn’t want pulled with them to reality? Remember what Rumple mentioned to Regina in “A Land Without Magic” “I knew you couldn’t resist pulling her through”

[Slurpeez]

Great point, stelio! Perhaps Regina had control over what/whom she brought over from FTL to SB. Being able to hand-pick Maleficent to come over in her dragon form shows Regina had a lot of power. Of course, she’d want to leave Cora behind. Maybe she was able to choose to bring over Jefferson from Wonderland, because she knew he could be of use to her in the future. Only he seemed to understand the intricacies of the hat when Regina wanted to retrieve the poisoned apple.

Also, I think Rumpel designed the curse with the intention of wanting to return to the Enchanted Forest someday. I think going back there was always part of his plan, once he retrieved his son, Baelfire. I think there’s also some connection between Aurora and Rumpelstiltskin, as alluded to when we saw the spinning wheel by the place where she slept.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[Daniel J. Lewis]

I thought Mr. Gold had specifically said that he didn’t intend on returning to the Enchanted Forest.

Also remember that Jefferson was pulled from Wonderland into Storybrooke. And the fact that no one, except apparently Regina, knows who Dr. Whale is, I’m thinking he’s from a different fairy tale land, too.

[mujie]

Hold on a second. If Regina knew FTL still existed, she knowingly sent the Wraith there…

[fairytaleprincess]

True, but perhaps she didn’t know how much or what part of FTL still existed. Also the wraith doesn’t stop until it has devoured its pray, Ragina. She probably didn’t care that she was sending the wraith there as long as her own skin was saved.

[sarah-daye hand]

I dont think the spinning wheel is a reference to Rumple, in the disney movie Aurora has to stick her finger on the needle to be in the spell. I think it just a reference to that.

[fairytaleprincess]

I agree Sarah, it was on her 16? 18? Birthday she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die! The last fairy gave the baby Aurora her present that she would not die, just fall asleep.

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