Inside The Box

[Myril]

Maybe it’s not just the power of names (it’s widespread in mythology and folk and fairy tales, that knowing the true name of someone or something gives you power about this someone or that something, not just in the tale of Rumplestiltskin) but the power of the written word as well. Something carved in stone is unchangeable, the pen is mightier than the sword, the written name and even more one’s signature are a symbol representing our selves. The written word is something enduring. We take what is written more as fact than just spoken words. What is written is more respected but also less forgiven.

Yes, they let the audience and fans get crazy about what was in the box, what August had shown Neal that it was so convincing in a second. We had high expectations, so many are disappointed now.

I love though the simplicity of it. Just this sentence, the name typed on paper was enough to convince Neal to listen. I don’t care if that was their idea from the beginning and they just had some fun to let us run into wrong directions or if they made it up later. The idea is ingenious.

Mind, this show at the beginning worked with the idea of a boy taking for real and important what was written in a book. The power of the dagger of the Dark One is symbolized by that the name of the one being the Dark One at the moment is written on its blade. Writing down Emma’s name numerous times on paper with magical ink was probably part of the enchantment for Rumple to regain his memory the very moment he met Emma and heard her name spoken out loud in Storybrooke. And the library of Storybrooke is a recurring set on the show – and not just because of Belle.

[nod]

… Call me crazy, but what if August didn’t know Neal was Bae? What if he really thought Neal was some deadbeat? What if (I know, a lot of what ifs,) the typewriter showed Bae what he needed to see in order to listen? Or, perhaps, that the typewriter was just the mouthpiece of someone else who knew the whole story and wasn’t letting August in on most of it.

Like the Blue Fairy, perhaps?

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