Greg Mendel

[TheGoldenKey]

@Vampirefan12 wrote:

Found this theory in the fanforum.com ouat spoilers:

Greg’s full name evokes Gregor Mendel, the geneticist best known to 9th graders everywhere as “that monk with the peas.” That is a hint of his supposedly real identity — the author of Henry’s book, the founder of the entire Fairytale land, the creator of every character, the digger of Storybrooke’s gene pool! His masterpiece brought him to this little town! I can’t wait to see his face at the moment when he glanced at the book.

I suggested this on another thread, Sunday after the show. https://oncepodcast.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=2571

I have a few theories I’m mulling over but this theory is certainly one of them. They did say we’d find out who wrote Henry’s book this season. Maybe his surprise was seeing Belle, Rumple and Hook, 3 of his main characters, out hanging on a country road.

[swanning-off]

Was Hook in Henry’s book? I mean, Emma knows who Captain Hook is because Peter Pan is a well known story in our world. But I don’t remember Henry rabbiting on about Hook before this.

[antbee]

@TheGoldenKey wrote:

I have a few theories I’m mulling over but this theory is certainly one of them. They did say we’d find out who wrote Henry’s book this season. Maybe his surprise was seeing Belle, Rumple and Hook, 3 of his main characters, out hanging on a country road.

In Jane Espenson's recent chat, she said we'd find out who HER was this season too, so maybe you're onto something about the book being tied in with Greg and HER.

[ceege]

Ok, I have not read any spoilers, so please forgive me if this theory is wrong. But a thought occurred to me a few days ago.

I’m going to go with the theory that he is the Wizard of Oz, because I like the “Took flight January 38” explanation (and because of lot of clues have pointed to Oz so far this season). But what if, instead of him having been the Wizard in the past and brought over because of the curse, he is destined to become the Wizard in the future.

In other words, the opposite of what we have seen so far in the show. Instead of fairy tale characters who have become people in the real world, we have someone from the real world who is destined to become a fairy tale character. I think that would be an interesting way to take the show forward.

I’ll elaborate a theory. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West (WWW) later played a character called Cora. Suppose “our” Cora decides to break the truce with Rumple (or thinks Rumple broke the truce) and takes Neal/Bae’s heart. This not being enough, she casts a spells that send some in Oz. The dwarves could become the munchkins. Neal/Bea, without a heart, would stand in for the tin man, along with Rumple being the cowardly crocodile (sorry, lion). When they get to the Emerald City, they find out Greg was caught in the spell and was mistaken for a wizard.

[king arthur]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

In real life, Gregor Mendel was a “German-speaking Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics.” You know, the guy who studied pea plant fertilization generation upon generation and discovered inheritance patterns of certain parental traits in the offspring. Perhaps in the show, Greg (aka “The Outsider”) could be a mad-scientist of sorts who wants to affirm the existence of the supernatural. Thoughts?

So maybe Greg Mendel will be helping Tiny/Anton with growing the beans.

[Phee]

@King Arthur wrote:

So maybe Greg Mendel will be helping Tiny/Anton with growing the beans.

Ah, nicely spotted connection there! 🙂

I noticed that Greg’s hospital robe in Tiny was green. Dunno if that necessarily means anything, don’t recall what colour he was wearing in his previous appearance, or what colour we’ve seen other patients wearing in the past, but he was definitely in green this time, contrasting to Belle in yellow.

Even if the colours aren’t actually meant to mean anything, I’m totally gonna read into it and say that those are two colours strongly associated with Oz, (Emerald City and Yellow Brick Road), just because it fits in with my fave theory of who he is. 😛

[Slurpeez]

@Phee wrote:

@King Arthur wrote:

So maybe Greg Mendel will be helping Tiny/Anton with growing the beans.

Ah, nicely spotted connection there! 🙂

I noticed that Greg’s hospital robe in Tiny was green. Dunno if that necessarily means anything, don’t recall what colour he was wearing in his previous appearance, or what colour we’ve seen other patients wearing in the past, but he was definitely in green this time, contrasting to Belle in yellow.

Brilliant! I LOVE the theory that Greg Mendel (aka pea plant expert) could help the bean plant germinate! Green is the color of plants, botany, life, etc….

@Phee wrote:

Even if the colours aren’t actually meant to mean anything, I’m totally gonna read into it and say that those are two colours strongly associated with Oz, (Emerald City and Yellow Brick Road), just because it fits in with my fave theory of who he is. 😛

😮 Emerald City! I think we could have a winner in Greg being the Wizard of Oz! 😀

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