Jefferson's Portals?

[TheWatcher]

Exactly how does Jefferson’s hat work? When Jefferson took Regina to Wonderland, he took her through the hat, into the giant room-filled hall, and then through the looking glass door. On the other side, they walked through a door that was just in the middle of nowhere.

So if that door is just there, whats stopping anyone from just walking through it? Or does the hat create the door? Like is there a place in all the worlds where there is just some doorway you can enter or exit if you please or do they only appear when Jefferson activates them?

[Phee]

Never really thought about it before, but now that I am…I’d guess that the door gets activated when it gets chosen to walk through from inside the hat.

[puzzled]

Have always been fascinated by Jefferson’s Hat. I would think that the Hat is merely a portal, meaning that if you chose to use the Hat, then the Hat came equiped with it’s own looking glass for just that world. Walk through it and you emerge on the inside of Wonderland’s looking glass, which I imagine is always there, but not always an acting portal.  When not in use, I imagine its just a looking glass….

Regina used a looking glass in her castle to transport her mother Cora into Wonderland through that same looking glass entrance,… no Hat.

Back to Jefferson’a Hat and a rule of the Hat that Jefferson informs Regina of, that (she somehow already knew about)… “Same number of people in,.. as the number of people out.”

This rule always suggested to me that Jefferson had to work with a partner, when planning to transport someone from their realm to another realm. In order to comply with the Hat’s rule, Jefferson would have to have an extra person with him who was willing to wait for their return, possibly being trapped there for life or until they could find alternate means of portaling back home. Did Jefferson not say he lost his wife because of the Hat?,…I wonder if this could be what he meant?

So for instance, every time Rumple used Jefferson’s Hat for business, both would travel to that realm and Jefferson would simply wait inside near the entrance for Rumple to return. If Rumple returned with a passenger he wished to take back with him, Jefferson would have to wait in that realm for the two to return. Then he could return with Rumple as two in – two out .

But Jefferson traveling alone was much easier and quicker, with less risk as well.

One more thing I noticed about Jefferson’s Hat. It never leaves Fairytale Land unless it, itself is moved to another realm by another means of transport. The Hat was moved to Storybrooke by The Dark Curse. But before that,… the only place you saw Jefferson actually wear the Hat was in Fairytale Land.

[Phee]

This rule always suggested to me that Jefferson had to work with a partner, when planning to transport someone from their realm to another realm. In order to comply with the Hat’s rule, Jefferson would have to have an extra person with him who was willing to wait for their return, possibly being trapped there for life or until they could find alternate means of portaling back home. Did Jefferson not say he lost his wife because of the Hat?,…I wonder if this could be what he meant?

Yes, that’s what I think probably happened with Jefferson’s wife. He wouldn’t have needed a travel companion all the time, but on the odd occasion when he did, his wife would step in. And on one of those occasions, something went wrong.

Also, IMO Grace looks like a mini-me version of the actress playing the Red Queen in OUATinWL, so I’ve (currently) got her pegged as being Jefferson’s “lost” wife.

[kfchimera]

I think that makes sense how you’ve described it Puzzled.

I’m curious what other portals and mechanics they will introduce. We’ve seen beans, the mirror, the wardrobe, the hat, creepy shadow to adjacent world and on OUAT the Rabbit digs wormholes apparently.

I’m speculating perhaps:

Magic Carpets?
Enchanted Boots (7 league boots…I’m sure Rumple could transform into a cat, and he did know a miller….).
Tornados and Balloons (Oz!)
Triton’s Staff (Phee has an illustration of why that might be)
Drawing with Chalk or Umbrellas (like in Mary Poppins)
Vodoo Mask Mouth (sort of in Princess and Frog…when Facillier goes to the “other side”)

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

[RumplesGirl]

Over in one of the WL threads, someone suggested that the Cave of Wonders might be a portal to another land as well.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Slurpeez]

Over in one of the WL threads, someone suggested that the Cave of Wonders might be a portal to another land as well.

That could be, since we’ve seen a clip of Jafar in what could be WL.

"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

[Phee]

Tornados and Balloons (Oz!)

I’ve found it curious that the portals basically look like tornadoes. Makes me think that Dorothy’s “tornado” wasn’t really a tornado.

Triton’s Staff (Phee has an illustration of why that might be)

Here’s the link to the discussion about that, and the post with the screencaps from The Little Mermaid: https://oncepodcast.com/forums/topic/speculating-the-little-mermaid/page/6/#post-206744

[puzzled]

And to add to the Tornados and Balloons of OZ,….I’m sure the Ruby Slippers will make an appearance as realm jumpers at some point,…having been mentioned in the show already.

What an incredible show. The possibilities are endless!…. How does one even consider writing an end to a storyline like this?

[Josephine]

I wonder if places could be portals, too.  If they can then I’m thinking the Bermuda triangle is a portal in our world.  😛  Things supposedly disappear there all the time.  Maybe else on earth the pyramids, Stonehenge, Sedona, etc.

I know we’ve been theorizing that mermaids can use the water as a portal.  August made his mystical, magical water speech and I also read a book last month that had fairies who traveled by portal in the water to their fae home.

Really, they can make anything they want a portal.  Now that our world has magic in it, at least in Storybrooke, I’d think it’s sort of like an unlocked door.  Before Rumple couldn’t use the various objects he collected and studied because they didn’t send him to a land without magic.  Only a limited number of portals can do that, but he did find one and came here and brought magic to Storybrooke.  Did bringing magic to town open a floodgate and now other portals can do the job where they couldn’t reach before?  Sort of like knowing a phone number.  Now that you know it you can start calling.  If that made any sense.

 

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