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[wolfie]

If she is controlling them with their hearts, then it’s probably more like a necromancy spell than traditional zombies. If anyone has seen Star Dust, I imagine it’s like she’s controlling the corpses…kind of like the witch did to Tristan’s uncle that had just died (Star Dust is one of my fav movies :)).

[hjbau]

I agree that it does not seem that they are that sort of zombies, the biting, infection spreading, moaning kind. More like dead soldiers who are pretty much like the queens soldiers with the masks. There to fight and allow for Snow and Emma to fight against sort of non human enemies so they can kill them. Seems like Snow shot at least one with an arrow and i would imagine that they will kill others.

[eternalflame]

I don’t mind the show introducing non-traditional elements into the storyline. Just as long as they modify them enough so that they fit inside the current universe.

And like others have said, I don’t think these “zombies” will be like the traditional zombies that we’re used to. I think they’re simply going to be the victims of Cora’s heart-ripping escapades. No biting or strange zombies epidemics on the show’s horizon.

[evilqueen]

i’m skeptical. i’m hoping that the writers surely know how cliche zombies are right now and how it doesn’t quite fit the image of OUaT and FTL – I don’t want this to turn into just another FANTASY show, that is the magic of this series that all the characters are transformations of the characters we THINK we already know and that they show there might be more colors to them than we can imagine. It successfully connects the stories of different characters into one logical timeline and tells a great story with it. Zombies just don’t fit the bill.
I’m sort of hoping that this must have something to do with ‘what’s dead is dead’, repeated so many times by Rumple (which seems SO IMPORTANT!) and that there is a nice explanation to why all of the sudden they are bringing Frankenstein and zombies up.

Which reminds me – I keep wondering about the rest of the Regina’s collection hearts – if she doesn’t even know whose hearts they are any more, are those people/creatures alive? Did she bring them to Storybrooke? WHY did she keep the hearts with her? (I mean, theoretically they have no use to her as they hold no magic)

[hjbau]

Regina is a serial killer and collects trophies. It is pretty much one of the creepiest things about the show. I imagine some of the people’s whose hearts she has are alive like the huntsman was and some are dead like she wanted Snow’s heart for her collection.

I still think that the people who are going to be brought back or whatever are still going to actually be dead just bodies moving around. Though i don’t think that the producers are aware what they are doing bringing up Frankenstein and banelings.

[Phee]

@EvilQueen wrote:

i’m skeptical. i’m hoping that the writers surely know how cliche zombies are right now and how it doesn’t quite fit the image of OUaT and FTL – I don’t want this to turn into just another FANTASY show, that is the magic of this series that all the characters are transformations of the characters we THINK we already know and that they show there might be more colors to them than we can imagine. It successfully connects the stories of different characters into one logical timeline and tells a great story with it. Zombies just don’t fit the bill.

I’m expecting that these “zombies” will be bit players, just to serve the plot of this one ep. Maybe the good guys will get to the stash of hearts and set it on fire and then they’ll all drop dead for good and that’s how they’ll escape. I can’t fault K&H for taking the opportunity to have a nod to zombies in an ep. Though they may be professional adult screenwriters, really, they’re always gonna be boys at heart, and zombie movies are probably something they love, so if they had the chance to indulge and have some zombies for a few scenes, they wanted to have some fun with it.

I’m sort of hoping that this must have something to do with ‘what’s dead is dead’, repeated so many times by Rumple (which seems SO IMPORTANT!) and that there is a nice explanation to why all of the sudden they are bringing Frankenstein and zombies up.

Frankenstein seemed really out of place to me when I first heard the theory. SciFi just didn’t seem to fit with Fairytales. But they were already not sticking strictly to fairytales. Alice in Wonderland wasn’t a fairytale. Wizard of Oz isn’t, and people are still hoping for that. And we have Captain Hook going to Neverland, and people are hoping to see Peter Pan. None of that is strictly “fairytale” either, they’re just storybooks. Granted, Frankenstein is a different genre of storybook, but a storybook nonetheless. Adam Horowitz tweeted someone that though he didn’t know it, Frankenstein’s world was indeed magical, so they have plans for how this is gonna play out, and how it’s gonna fit in, and I’m confident it’ll make sense. One of my main issues if Whale was Frankenstein was how they’d tie that character into the overall story in a believable way, but they achieved that perfectly IMO. It made sense to see Regina trying to bring back Daniel, and of course she’d use the guy whose hobby is reanimating the dead for that. And yes, everything about his character does address that “dead is dead” theme, and shows why dead should be dead, because it doesn’t tend to go so well when you try to defy that.

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