Mulan Spoiler

[antbee]

I’m not sure if I should have started a new thread for this or just bumped up an old one, but here’s a new spoiler about Mulan from TV Guide Magazine, http://www.tvguide.com/News/Once-Upon-Time-Mulan-1052385.aspx?rss=news&partnerid=spi&profileid=05.

Don’t expect to see Mulan in her geisha getup when we first meet Disney’s warrior princess in Once Upon a Time’s September 30 premiere. She’ll be armored up and battle-ready.

“I go on a journey with Prince Phillip to find his princess, Aurora,” teases Mulan’s portrayer, Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch). “There’s this evil spirit that’s moving and my character ends up bonding with Sleeping Beauty. And as you’ve heard, Captain Hook is joining us.”

So might sword overpower hook? “Definitely,” says Chung, who mastered her sword-wielding skills on ABC Family’s Samurai Girl. “If you compare the size and length of my sword to his hook, who do you think has the longer reach?”

I know everyone on Tumblr right now is excited because of the possibility of her being friends with Sleeping Beauty and/or her warrior skills, but I’m a little worried about what kind of “evil spirit” is moving. I wonder if it has to do with Emma’s and Snow’s disappearance. Does it have to do with one of the main baddies like Rumple or Regina or some new baddie?

[scaredcrow65]

Thanks! I hadn’t seen this. It sounds really interesting, because they’re
mashing up the 2 stories and making them their own. The show is at its best when it changes things up and puts its own spin on things. Its why Id take Red Handed over Price of Gold any day. Their Cinderella story was pretty classic with some rumple thrown in, but red handed really mixed things up.

It seems likely that the evil spirit ties in with the present day in some capacity, so maybe its by way of their disappearance. This seems like a kind of irrelevant plot to include in the season opener if it doesn’t. Ill be a little dissapointed if they focus the big season premiere on new characters too much and take time away for the ones I already love, but I totally trust the writers to do a good job and know what they’re doing. Maybe not all this happens in the premiere?
Should be a good episode, either way

[hjbau]

I think that they aren’t in the episodes much until later on. Maybe Ep 3? Right?

[kiwi]

@hjbau wrote:

I think that they aren’t in the episodes much until later on. Maybe Ep 3? Right?

I think they already stated that Hook wasnt appearing till episode 4? So, if Mulan and he are in the same episode (and thats quite the mashup 😯 ), then she likely is not in the 1st ep of season 2 maybe.

I ship Regina Mills with Happiness!

[Phee]

@AntBee wrote:

I know everyone on Tumblr right now is excited because of the possibility of her being friends with Sleeping Beauty and/or her warrior skills, but I’m a little worried about what kind of “evil spirit” is moving. I wonder if it has to do with Emma’s and Snow’s disappearance. Does it have to do with one of the main baddies like Rumple or Regina or some new baddie?

Given that we’re talking about Sleeping Beauty, perhaps the evil spirit is just Maleficent? Though, given that Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a spindle, it’d be surprising if our resident king of the spinning wheel isn’t involved in that story too. I’m really interested to see how they choose to tell the Sleeping Beauty story, and how it’ll be woven into the timeline. Regina and Maleficent’s conversation suggests it all happened around the time Regina met Snow and Leopold.

Unless it was just the falling asleep instead of dying that happened back then, and Phillip doesn’t wake her up until after that conversation between Maleficent and Regina happened? Maybe once word got out that Charming woke up Snow with a kiss, Phillip got it into his head to go find this sleeping princess that everyone talks about, so he can wake her up in the same way? In which case, the “evil spirit” could be Regina’s threat of the curse, and Phillip and Mulan may have to act quickly to find Aurora before the curse hits. Perhaps?

Would Mulan and Phillip being buddies confirm that she’s from FTL, and not some other realm? One of the things that made everyone start to wonder if Mulan would be showing up, was that there was an Asian looking door in the hat, but if she knows Phillip well enough to accompany him on a quest to find his true love, then perhaps she’s not from elsewhere. I wonder if they’re both involved in helping to take back the kingdom, and that’s where they meet, or if they knew each other beforehand.

Obviously if the whole Sleeping Beauty story happened in the past, that’s not even a question to be asking, but the more I think about it, the more I think I like the idea that Aurora is saved closer to Regina’s curse being cast. Remember how when the curse rolls in, there’s a dragon flying ahead of the smoke? Maybe Phillip was in the middle of battling with DragonMaleficent, then the curse starts coming, so she flies off, which is why it was Emma who slew her, instead of Phillip. It’s not that he failed in the attempt, the battle was just interrupted.

[Slurpeez]

Jame Chung said: “There’s this evil spirit that’s moving and my character ends up bonding with Sleeping Beauty.

I agree that “evil spirit” could potentially be Maleficent. Recall how Regina has the power to disappear into thin air and travel to and from locations within FTL (1×1) and turn into animals like a mouse (which we saw in 1×2). If Maleficent has the same power, she could appear like a spirit, potentially. We already know that Maleficent can turn into a dragon. I really hope the actress who plays her will make guest appearance in S2. It already sounds like she might, based on the spoiler from Comic Con that Eddy and Adam “didn’t see a body” in the finale. Sounds like there’s a lot of potential to play with.

Phee wrote: Though, given that Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a spindle, it’d be surprising if our resident king of the spinning wheel isn’t involved in that story too.

I’m inferring you mean Rumpelstiltskin! I would love to see his tale woven into the classic Sleeping Beauty storyline here! Perhaps Maleficient curses Sleeping Beauty, but she pricks her finger on Rumpel’s spinning wheel.

I’m really interested to see how they choose to tell the Sleeping Beauty story, and how it’ll be woven into the timeline. Regina and Maleficent’s conversation suggests it all happened around the time Regina met Snow and Leopold.

I agree that the convo between Regina and Maleficent suggested the Sleeping Beauty story took place in the past. It’s not clear how far in the past though. Remember all those spoilers we saw about Mulan’s village? Jamie Chung has at least one scene with Prince Charming and Snow White, since they were filming together. So, Mulan is involved in their storyline, too. Perhaps Prince Phillip, Prince Charming, Mulan, and Snow White are all in on helping save Sleeping Beauty. Perhaps this storyline occurs after Prince Charming and Snow White are engaged and “taking back the kingdom” and before Regina unleashed the dark curse. Just a thought.

Unless it was just the falling asleep instead of dying that happened back then, and Phillip doesn’t wake her up until after that conversation between Maleficent and Regina happened?

I think that is a very real possibility. Perhaps Sleeping Beauty was in a coma state for a good amount of time, and then it happens Prince Phillip forms an alliance with Mulan later.

Would Mulan and Phillip being buddies confirm that she’s from FTL, and not some other realm?

I wonder about this, too. Perhaps Mulan is from a far-off kingdom, similarly to how Belle’s village was remote and foreign. It could also be that Jefferson’s hat doesn’t just go to different worlds, but also to different realms within the same world.

"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]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

I’m inferring you mean Rumpelstiltskin! I would love to see his tale woven into the classic Sleeping Beauty storyline here! Perhaps Maleficient curses Sleeping Beauty, but she pricks her finger on Rumpel’s spinning wheel.

You infer correctly. 😉

[hjbau]

Do you know when, as in the date, that it was said Snow, Charming, and Mulan had a scene together?

[Slurpeez]

I think Snow, Charming, and Mulan were reportedly all filming together on August 17- 18 at a closed night shoot. There’s an ongoing discussion here in another thread: https://oncepodcast.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1384&start=10

"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

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