The Tree / The Well / & The Stranger

[mia]

Taking a break from my essay endspurt and re-watching the episode.
Earlier in the post (or maybe another) we discussed over what could come back by Emma drinking the water. We speculated about memories, etc. We overlooked the obvious: just after her drink with August, she finds Henry’s book! Of course it’s really given to her by August, but she doesn’t know that. When she gives the book back to Henry and he asks her how she got it and she explains it to him, he wonders that it’s strange. Her answer: “What other explanation is there?” The look on her face and the intonation of how she delivers the line, seem as if she’s thinking about what August told her about the water. For August to give her back the book immediately after having her drink from the “magic” water, thus is to make her believe in magic, just as someone posted earlier here.

Ok, just looked back on the posts here. It seems the whole water theory is somewhere else, but I can’t find it right now, sorry.

[Slurpeez]

@ mia: On the topic of “magic” well water, I agree. You could see the wheels turning in Emma’s head when she somewhat rhetorically asked what other explanation there could be. She clearly left out the drink and conversation she’d had with August. Probably, due to her skeptical side, she doesn’t want Henry jumping to conclusions, even though her disbelief may be starting to wain a bit. I think August fed her the water line to start Emma down the road of believing in even the possibility of magic.

On the topic of town emblems, apple trees, and bee hives (which is almost deserving of an entirely new topic thread), in episode 5, That Still Small Voice, Regina makes an allusion to honeycomb.

Regina: People of Storybrooke, don’t be alarmed. We’ve always known that this area was honeycombed with old mining tunnels. But, fear not, I’m going to undertake a project to make this area safe, to rehabilitate it into city use. We will bulldoze it, collapse it, pave it.

It may simply be an insignificant reference. Yet, it’s still very interesting that she uses the word “honeycombed” in reference to the mines, which run beneath SB. The mines also contain the remains of Snow White’s glass coffin. Perhaps they represent a link between worlds?

"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

[hjbau]

I think that honeycombed is just the only word that Regina could use to refer to the minds under the town. I don’t really like the idea of there being any underground place between worlds, but we will see.

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