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How much power and control the Author has might lead to a reason why he was trapped behind the door. If he’s someone who actually had influence over people and could create circumstances that led them to make bad choices that led them to become villainous, then perhaps he was locked up – let’s assume by the Sorcerer – because he was leading people astray, like the proverbial “devil on your shoulder”. Basically what I’m getting at I guess is Sorcerer/God kicked Author/Lucifer out and slammed the door on him, hoping to rid everyone of his influence. So if they let him out of the Door and back into the world, they may end up wishing they hadn’t.
That was basically the same theory I was thinking of last night, and I even emailed it to the podcast. Guess I should share what I wrote:
Just thought I’d share this little theory I have about the Author. Some have assumed that Sorcerer might be evil, and trapped the Author in the book for his own nefarious purposes. However, what if this isn’t the case? What if the Author is the sinister and mischievous one? What if the Sorcerer imprisoned the Author in the book, not to abuse his powers for his own gain, but as punishment for his behavior and as a method to keep him under control? Having the power to control everyone’s lives through the power of writing would likely give the Author a God complex, which could in itself be very dangerous. Freeing the Author from his imprisonment could be a huge mistake, and result in yet another catastrophic problem our characters will have to deal with.
[adrotate group="5"]With the Author being trapped, I keep getting flashbacks of Jefferson being trapped and forced to make the hats.
Just makes me think the Author will be a victim, and then the Sorcerer will be evil.
Just makes me think the Author will be a victim, and then the Sorcerer will be evil.
Me too.
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With the Author being trapped, I keep getting flashbacks of Jefferson being trapped and forced to make the hats. Just makes me think the Author will be a victim, and then the Sorcerer will be evil.
Same
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"With the Author being trapped, I keep getting flashbacks of Jefferson being trapped and forced to make the hats.
Just makes me think the Author will be a victim, and then the Sorcerer will be evil.
I wonder if this is meta for how the show writers view themselves in relation to shippers.
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With the Author being trapped, I keep getting flashbacks of Jefferson being trapped and forced to make the hats. Just makes me think the Author will be a victim, and then the Sorcerer will be evil.
I wonder if this is meta for how the show writers view themselves in relation to shippers.
I should not have laughed at this as hard as I did. But after four years of the never ending drama…yeah, ok. I laughed a lot
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"How much power and control the Author has might lead to a reason why he was trapped behind the door. If he’s someone who actually had influence over people and could create circumstances that led them to make bad choices that led them to become villainous, then perhaps he was locked up – let’s assume by the Sorcerer – because he was leading people astray, like the proverbial “devil on your shoulder”. Basically what I’m getting at I guess is Sorcerer/God kicked Author/Lucifer out and slammed the door on him, hoping to rid everyone of his influence. So if they let him out of the Door and back into the world, they may end up wishing they hadn’t.
That was basically the same theory I was thinking of last night, and I even emailed it to the podcast. Guess I should share what I wrote:
Just thought I’d share this little theory I have about the Author. Some have assumed that Sorcerer might be evil, and trapped the Author in the book for his own nefarious purposes. However, what if this isn’t the case? What if the Author is the sinister and mischievous one? What if the Sorcerer imprisoned the Author in the book, not to abuse his powers for his own gain, but as punishment for his behavior and as a method to keep him under control? Having the power to control everyone’s lives through the power of writing would likely give the Author a God complex, which could in itself be very dangerous. Freeing the Author from his imprisonment could be a huge mistake, and result in yet another catastrophic problem our characters will have to deal with.
I still thing it is the other way round.
Originally.. I said that the sorcerer trapped the author behind the door for his own benefit….that maybe he is forcing the author to write certain things, or sabotage his work (page 2 of this thread and elsewhere a week ago).
Perhaps the sorcerer is evil and is punishing the author for not writing a happy ending, or is forcing him to do so, but the author is finding create ways to not give him it.
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How is the Author communicating with August? If he’s inside the book….how does August know?
Tweaking Daniel’s idea (the podcast leader), perhaps the author is communicating by controlling August’s type writer. OR he writes something on a page or uses his own type writer behind the door and the words are transfered onto the August’s typewriter by moving the keys and/or the stamper thingies, like some kind of magical wireless telegraph…except it is a type writer and not morse code. You know what I mean? August’s typwriter stamps out whatever the author is writing or typing at his end.
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ah you beat me. I edit my post above while you posted this. Anyway, what do you think?
It’s possible I guess, but it would depend in which realm the Author is trapped, seeing how there aren’t telegrams in the Enchanted Forest.
@Slurpeez I think you misunderstood me. I said *like* some kind of *magical* wireless telegraph.
Bascially, not an actual telegraph. Just operates like one, via magic. One type writer in one world dictates what is stamped out onto the typewriter in the other world via magic.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
I still thing it is the other way round. Originally.. I said that the sorcerer trapped the author behind the door for his own benefit….that maybe he is forcing the author to write certain things, or sabotage his work (page 2 of this thread and elsewhere a week ago). Perhaps the sorcerer is evil and is punishing the author for not writing a happy ending, or is forcing him to do so, but the author is finding create ways to not give him it.
I’d like to add that the reason why I think the sorcerer has bad intentions or is evil because he possesses a hat that sucks people into it. Yes, that could be a good way to get rid of some truly bad people, but I can’t help but shake off the feeling that any magical person with that kind of hat is not going to be at least a tad shady.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
I still thing it is the other way round. Originally.. I said that the sorcerer trapped the author behind the door for his own benefit….that maybe he is forcing the author to write certain things, or sabotage his work (page 2 of this thread and elsewhere a week ago). Perhaps the sorcerer is evil and is punishing the author for not writing a happy ending, or is forcing him to do so, but the author is finding create ways to not give him it.
I’d like to add that the reason why I think the sorcerer has bad intentions or is evil because he possesses a hat that sucks people into it. Yes, that could be a good way to get rid of some truly bad people, but I can’t help but shake off the feeling that any magical person with that kind of hat is not going to be at least a tad shady.
I think that’s a very good point. And if the dagger is connected to the hat (the dagger makes the hat box open, ect) then I would say the Sorcerer is more tied to the dark side
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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