Magic and the Bottle of Love

[hjbau]

I was thinking about the bottle of love and wondering if the fact that it was Snow and Charming’s love that was used to bring magic back to Storybrooke if that would somehow give them some advantage. I still don’t think that Regina is going to get her magic back right away. I think that we are going to learn about how she got her magic for the first time in fairytale land and maybe at the same time see her get her magic back in the real world.

Magic exists in the real world now that Rumpel put the bottle of love in the well, but because Regina was not born with magic, it was something she either learned or received from someone else, then i think the same thing will have to happen in the real world. That she will have to regain it.

I think i just like the idea that the bottle of love being made from Snow and Charming has some sort of unforeseen consequence for them or maybe for Emma. That it makes the magic maybe more attuned to them in some way. I am not sure how that works. I know i just think at times that the bad side has too much advantage in power and it makes for a bad show. They cannot make a character too powerful or the fact that they lose seems unrealistic. And i think the bad guys have to lose.

[the_savior]

That’s an interesting theory.

Based of the actors and actresses talk for the next season it would appear that much of the show is going to revolve around Emma and the relationships she has with the people she cares about most, and how that effects both SB and FTL.

She is the “Savior”, and I’m sure her saving has only just begun.

[elle]

That is something to think of. Not sure if the potion will give Snow White and Prince Charming an advantage–not unless Rumpelstiltskin goes for it. But then again, Regina did say that magic was unpredictable in the real world.

We don’t know for sure if she was born with magic–she might have had the potential, but never really the inclination to do so until Daniel died. Her mother seemed extremely powerful–either it was power that she was born with, or one that she managed to obtain somehow. I know a lot of people think the theory of Rumpelstiltskin giving Cora power is sound, but that seems to be a stretch. Why make someone else very powerful? He’d have competition.

But I do agree that Regina probably won’t have her powers back right away. After everything that she has done–after the extreme power struggle–Rumpelstiltskin is not going to want her to have power. She’s going to have to get it back.

[killianhookfan]

I wondered if there was some kind of correlation between August having Emma drink from the same well that Rumple tossed the bottled True Love into or if that was just supposed to be symbolic of August having lost Emma and vice versa. But since Emma was already supposed to have magic, and now the bottle that contained the hair of Snow and James is what has supposedly brought the magic back to SB, mean that Emma is going to have even stronger magic than before – magic similar to the kind of magic that Regina and Rumple had in FTL? That would kind of create and checks and balance situation in SB by having some good and some bad characters have magic. I’m still not sure about the Blue Fairy, but for arguements sake let’s put her on the side of good magic for now. With Emma and the BF on the side of good and Rumple and Regina on the side of bad (only for arguements sake – everyone knows I think Rumple’s ultimate goal is actually good 😀 ) that would kind of even things out, right?

[Slurpeez]

hjbau wrote:I was thinking about the bottle of love and wondering if the fact that it was Snow and Charming’s love that was used to bring magic back to Storybrooke if that would somehow give them some advantage. I still don’t think that Regina is going to get her magic back right away.

I really like this theory. The unpredictability of magic makes me think that there could be a different set of rules for magic created from true love. Now that there is magic in SB, the way things play out will be very interesting. I think that only Rumpel will know the ins and outs of how to bend the power to his will, and that Regina will struggle to make sense of this new magic. Since Rumpel is the one who bottled it, he is the one who can do ANYTHING. Now, Rumpel seems to be playing by his own rules and there don’t seem to be the same restraints as there were in FTL. I think a large part of the plot next season will be Emma and her crew trying to take on Rumpel and Regina and trying to understand this new magic. However, I think the unpredictable nature of this new magic could have dire consequences for Rumpel.

"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

[merryleeplaying]

A couple of thoughts….
1) We know the love portion has a hair from SW & PC. What if it also had a hair from Rumple & Bae? By dropping it in the well (to return what was lost) might yield a clue for Rumple to locate where Bae is.
2) On a comical note. What if the well brought back his wife. And there he’d be with wife & Belle drama. Would he still have to file for divorce? 😉

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