The dark side of Fairy Tale Land

[weedith]

I have been toying with this for a while, and “Dreamy” only adds fuel to my theory. We have been given this premise that Storybrooke/the real world is “someplace horrible” where everyone’s happy ending is taken away. The idea being that the final goal should be for everyone to get back to FTL so they can be happy.

Well, that’s just great if you are a prince or a princess. Not so much if you are, well, anybody else — a dwarf, for instance; or a low-level apprentice fairy; or a peasant whose son is turning 14; or two children whose father was snatched away in the forest; or anybody who gets on the queen’s bad side, etc. etc.. I can understand in FTL that bad things happen to bad people (as Mr. Gold observed), but bad things also happen to innocent people. And very few people get a happy ever after. I am starting to wonder if getting back to FTL is really the better option.

Granted, remaining frozen in time for all eternity in a sort of amnesiac fog does not sound like much of an existence. But I’m wondering if it is possible to break that particular curse, but not be sent back to the world where dwarves are hatched underground to work basically as slaves, never seeing the light of day, never allowed a chance at love (either romantic or parental), and somehow, what (?) genetically engineered to be content breaking rocks all day every day?

In the real world, there is no happy ever after. In the real world love is messy and muddy and complicated and painful. But what makes it worthwhile is that it is REAL. I wonder if we are headed toward a decision point for these characters, where they have to decide if they want the fairy tale, or the real world where the end of the story is unwritten.

Thoughts?

[hjbau]

I think that the life for the dwarfs will change as the show goes on. We know that Grumpy and Doc are serving on Snow and Charming’s war counsel in the pilot so that has changed for them.

[rumplegoldfankristi]

weedith, you and I think a lot alike! I’ve been thinking a lot about this too lately. I think an interesting twist to the show would be for the curse to be broken but for the characters to either choose to remain in Storybrook or be stuck in Storybrook. Would it be so bad to be stuck in Storybrook if Dwarves and Fairies can be in love? Emma could run against Regina in the next Mayoral election! But I agree on the whole happy ending thing. Even Cinderalla and Snow White didn’t seem to be all the happy in FTL

[Snickerdoodle]

I guess I thought they couldn’t go back to FTL. In the pilot when the curse was enacted it was literally being torn apart piece by piece above Snow White, Charming’s and EQ’s heads. We saw there was a remnant of Snow’s glass coffin under SB, but I guess I haven’t thought that breaking the curse would restore FTL, I just thought it would restore the Happy Endings of them finding each other and remembering who they were.

[Slurpeez]

@ weedith: I think you’re on to something. I recall in ep. 13, David said to the Siren: “I want reality or nothing.” I’ve noticed the theme that reality is better than illusion becoming apparent.

"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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