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This was just brought up in chat by @tobiebenoit but we see, early on in the episode, that the front door to Regina’s house vanishes. But we never see it reappear but somehow people got back into the house–including Dr. Whale, Charming, Emma, Belle, and Hook.
Where did the door go?
When did it come back?
Why did it vanish in the first place?
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I haven’t watched the episode but vanishing door is very Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and then I googled who wrote this episode, and it’s Jane and Jane worked on Buffy.
I get that it was supposed to show us that the spell really worked and that Ghost!Cora was in the house but…move a plant or something
It just feels like they should have showed the door coming back or something? Cause it’s either that or our gang are actually X-men who can walk through walls.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Or perhaps show the characters trying to find the door and it not being there anymore. No point in a door being gone if no one notices.
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When you watch it close – it’s more like the doorWAY is sealed up. There’s a small doorway to the front door foyer area from her staircase. So idk if it’s the actual DOOR disappearing or just the doorway. Either way – it’s just strange to ONLY show that.
I think the door way sealed up rather than the actual doo. Didn’t ghost Cora disappear before everyone else made an appearance? Perhaps when Cora was sent back to the netherworld, everything went back to normal?
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Keeper of FelixMy first thought was, they made the doorway disappear as a sign of things being off in the house after they had contact with that dark vortex (suspense!), but they showed it so pronounced and there is no follow-up, that I began wondering, if there is more to it. And why should the vortex or the ghost be any connected to that doorway disappearing, trapping whoever is in the house for what? Possession? And why just this doorway disappearing, why not seal off some window as well? Remembered the Halloween episode of season 04 of Buffy, “Fear, itself” (4×04 – not written by Espenson), maybe similar intention.
But the doorway disappearing from the hall didn’t necessarily mean, anyone is trapped, could be just a change in the architecture of the house (strange design maybe, but not impossible to have a different way from main entry hall to main stairwell). Small changes in furniture, architecture, pictures on the shelf or wall, change of clothes are often hints or foreshadowing that something or someone is changing a timeline, that we are in an alternative timeline or alternative universe. To use the title of the episode, this disappearing doorway could be a sign that maybe an alternative timeline or universe is beginning to bleed through, the world as we know it is transforming. By the way, in theater bleed through is sometimes used as term for a transformation of the scene by using sharktooth scrim effect (lit from the the front and no back lights the scrim is opaque, lit from behind what is behind the scrim becomes visible, fast way to change scenery or to hide set changes being made).
If it was just for this episode or something foreshadowing upcoming events, it was IMO bad that they just showed the doorway disappearing but then nothing followed. So we’re left wondering. Even if it is something that will come up in a following episode again, would have been better to now either make clear, if it was something just connected to the appearing of Cora’s ghost or something different. Another pan shot showing if the doorway is back there or still gone at the end of the episode, maybe even someone wondering for a second (Snow, Emma) that they’ve thought there were a doorway, not really knowing, but like faint echo of memory (if a sign of timeline altering), maybe just a startled look. Not sure if to blame writing, directing or editing or all of it for it. This way at least I am left more wondering, if the doorway is still gone and not so much why or what it meant.
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If it was just for this episode or something foreshadowing upcoming events, it was IMO bad that they just showed the doorway disappearing but then nothing followed. So we’re left wondering
This is the biggest issue for me as well. They set it up but never resolved it so we are left to speculate, which is normally fun except when it’s a somewhat vague frustrating case like this.
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Small changes in furniture, architecture, pictures on the shelf or wall, change of clothes are often hints or foreshadowing that something or someone is changing a timeline, that we are in an alternative timeline or alternative universe. To use the title of the episode, this disappearing doorway could be a sign that maybe an alternative timeline or universe is beginning to bleed through, the world as we know it is transforming.
OMG!! I love this theory!!!
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