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Greetings everyone. 😀 I started looking for a meaty forum shortly after Once began, comparable to, and promising the same pleasurable journey I experienced in exploring LOST. I joined one prematurely and soon realized it was mainly the same two or three people posting who were not interested in the kind of delving I enjoy. After listening to a few of the Once podcasts and exploring this site a little, I have registered and look forward to conversing with y’all. Unfortunately, my life is busy and my board time will be limited, but I know it will be most enjoyable and stimulating.
I chose Rumpel Sylph’s Kin as my screen name because, well, who wouldn’t want to be related to someone who can spin straw into gold? Physically and also spiritually. I also like the character’s ambiguity. Is he good, bad, both, neither? I suspect his greater plan, greater than Regina’s, is designed to lead him to redemption, and like everyone, I could do with some of that too. So I’m rooting for him, but there isn’t a character I haven’t delighted in “meeting” in the Once world. And the layers in every episode are rich and provocative! I also feel strongly that it is through embracing the arts and entertainment more than any other external and internal influence that we evolve, individually and as a species, and what a fabulous teaching forum is ONCE! “All magic comes with a price.”
[adrotate group="5"]Welcome to the forums, always good to meet a fellow Rumple/Gold lover, although, I don’t believe I’ve run into anyone who dislikes him yet.
In relation to your username – I have a question.
Is the ‘sylph’ in question in relation to the air elementals from Irish folklore?
Just curious.@cruel_fortuna wrote:
Is the ‘sylph’ in question in relation to the air elementals from Irish folklore?
Just curious.Hi Fortuna. Thanks. Yes, very astute of you. Air elementals, sylphs, represent the mental process. I love to explore a good mystery, and appreciate a well-written, clever story, which ONCE is. 😀
And Fortuna, I know, is the Roman Goddess of luck, fate, and fortune, and is also represented in Tarot in the Wheel of Fortune (X) card. As the wheel is perpetually turning, I’m sure the “cruel” part is only part of your picture. 😉
It probably helps that I’m going through and reading parts of the Ulster Cycle; in particular the part about the Tuatha Dé Danann, back before they were associated with being faeries. So, given the fact that Greek myth has worked it’s way into the show, would you like seeing more mythology explored, perhaps seeing a sylph in Fairytale Land would be nice?
Yes, the cruel part is from the song ‘Within You’ where he says, “your eyes can be so cruel, just as I can be so cruel.” But it also ties into the saying of ‘fate is a cruel mistress.’
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It probably helps that I’m going through and reading parts of the Ulster Cycle; in particular the part about the Tuatha Dé Danann, back before they were associated with being faeries. So, given the fact that Greek myth has worked it’s way into the show, would you like seeing more mythology explored, perhaps seeing a sylph in Fairytale Land would be nice?’
You are probably a fan of Yeats, then, as I am. Is your ancestry Irish?
Mythology does spill a little into fairy tale i.e. fairies and mermaids, and I thought of the Lady of the Lake in the Frederick episode. I don’t think getting too much into the mythology would be a good idea in ONCE, only because it would become too convoluted. Mythology is so expansive that it is incredibly difficult to represent well, as we’re seeing by the mediocre treatment of recent movies like Troy, Thor, and Clash and Wrath of the Titans, unfortunately none altogether true to their mythologies, and done more as comic book adventure than meaty explorations. I would, however, love a series comparable to ONCE focusing on mythology.
@Sylph: I adore Yeats, Tennyson is a close second. Oddly enough no. My ancestry is Norwegian & a hefty helping of Cherokee. I’m sure my pale complexion that is prone to burning & my blue eyes are probably results of the Norwegian bit.
Here comes the part where you retract any respect you might have had for me.
I love all those movies you mentioned; except for Wrath of the Titans – be it the original or the remake. Although, to be fair, I think that’s just my love of fantasy films overriding the analytical/literary side of my brain. I know they took great liberties with all those movies & the mythology is all messed up but darn it all if I don’t swoon any time Loki or Hector shows up on my television screen.( I take it this means you hated the Mummy movies too, since they totally messed with Imhotep’s real-life counterpart & the bit about renaming Nefertiti to Nefertiri )
Glad to have you with us, Rumpel Sylph’s Kin!
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@cruel_fortuna wrote:
I know they took great liberties with all those movies & the mythology is all messed up but darn it all if I don’t swoon any time Loki or Hector shows up on my television screen.
( I take it this means you hated the Mummy movies too, since they totally messed with Imhotep’s real-life counterpart & the bit about renaming Nefertiti to Nefertiri )
@fortuna: Sorry, no I don’t hate any of it at all!!! Fantasy and swoonable actors make them all worth watching more than once for sure. The Mummy movies and many modern day quest movies like National Treasure, even the Indiana Jones movies all keep them alive to various extents. I shouldn’t suggest I am such a purist as to insist on correct or nothing when it comes to story. After all, all myth evolves with the times, and sometimes contradicts itself. I much prefer retelling than nothing, and I do love that filmmakers are introducing myth to a new generation. I would just like them to somehow inject more layers, for mythology inspires philosophy, open-mindedness, and possibility. Yet I know that can’t be easy to do, although ONCE is doing it marvelously for its genre, and without question rearranging some of the facts as we “knew” them. Mediocre was a poor choice of words, and should have specified “mediocre in the accuracy of classical retelling”.
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