USA and Canada Promos

[snuffy]

Not sure if someone said this, and I have no big basis for it. But with regards to the “Field Office” Tamara mentions in the 10 min promo, and the thoughts others have mentioned that there had to be someone who had a bad run in magic. Maybe the Darlings, Wendy’s family, who right now are the oldest people that have some connection to magical worlds run the organization (“Field Office” People). In the Disney cartoon, Mr. Darling has a connection with Neverland, obviously, and so perhaps he is where it starts.

Totally a whacked out idea with no basis but someone’s gotta run the organization, so why not a connection to Baelfire?

[RumplesGirl]

Going off what Snuffy (welcome to the forums, btw!) said above: what if Wendy never came back from one of her adventures? What if she’s still in NL and the “field office people” began as a way to track her down? The Darlings started this organization with the intent to find Wendy and bring her home from NL and over the years it’s become an organization to eradicate magic.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[CrownedWithLaurels]

@Phee wrote:

@CrownedWithLaurels wrote:

If it were super dark I highly doubt Wendy would be so excited to go there. My best guess is like the Neverland we all know, sure there are dark places but also fun & exciting.

But check out the thing with the creepy eyes that she’s all super excited to fly off with. Dunno that I’m willing to trust Wendy’s judgement of what’s exciting, just based on that brief clip. 😆

Haha! Yeah, to quote Jim Carey’s “The Grinch”, “Sweet kid. Baaaad judge of character.” 😆

Keeper Nealfire's/Bae's scarf, Henry and Neal's bribery ice cream sundae, Baelfire's sword, the coconut map, and more.

[snuffy]

Thanks for the welcome.

Second whacked out theory – the beans don’t open portals but Wormholes to other worlds. Worlds where science and magic are a medley and time passes differently based on the planet’s distance from the sun.

So Storybrooke is like a permanently opened wormhole that is about to shutdown. Thus there are infinite worlds to travel to, not dimensions. This opens up the possibility of other franchises that Disney owns, which I believe Star Wars is now one of.Though I doubt that would happen soon.

NL is a place is the stars that they travel to.

[RumplesGirl]

Interesting. Jefferson did say that there are an infinite number of worlds, all pressed together in a long line. It does open up at least hinting at other franchises. I don’t think they could do Star Wars (yes, Disney owns it but it rather screams “jumping the shark”), but they could make nods to SW or even other lands that Disney does not own like the world of Harry Potter or Narnia.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Slurpeez]

@RumplesGirl wrote:

Interesting. Jefferson did say that there are an infinite number of worlds, all pressed together in a long line. It does open up at least hinting at other franchises. I don’t think they could do Star Wars (yes, Disney owns it but it rather screams “jumping the shark”), but they could make nods to SW or even other lands that Disney does not own like the world of Harry Potter or Narnia.

Point of interest: Actually, Disney did own the rights to the Narnia franchise at one point. The 2005 film “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” was a Disney film, as was the second film “Prince Caspian.” However, due to the second’s film’s lack of money-making potential, Disney sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, which then produced the third film “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”

"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]

@snuffy wrote:

Not sure if someone said this, and I have no big basis for it. But with regards to the “Field Office” Tamara mentions in the 10 min promo, and the thoughts others have mentioned that there had to be someone who had a bad run in magic. Maybe the Darlings, Wendy’s family, who right now are the oldest people that have some connection to magical worlds run the organization (“Field Office” People). In the Disney cartoon, Mr. Darling has a connection with Neverland, obviously, and so perhaps he is where it starts.

Totally a whacked out idea with no basis but someone’s gotta run the organization, so why not a connection to Baelfire?

Whacked out, crackpot theories can be the most fun. 😉 I’ve been wondering myself over the last day or so if this secret organisation could potentially be some exclusive club of a handful of people who have connections to magical worlds. These people have to have some really solid reason for doing what they do. I like your idea of the Darlings potentially being involved.

[kfchimera]

I agree that some worlds would just be too much and ruin the feel of the show. There’s a balance to how many “toys” they take off the shelf and mix together in this story. I’m all for a few crazy things from left field, but some references are better as parallels or nods rather than straight up incorporating them in (like, say Mickey mouse). Sadly I think that means a lot of the Pixar stories, as well as Star Wars are probably too different in their modern feel from “fairytales and classic tales” to be blended in. Of course, if they introduce Nemo and have that character literally jumping a shark….I’d give them a pass on that. 😆

I do like the idea of the Darlings running a magic hunter club–think Rumplesgirl suggested elsewhere that maybe Dorothy could lead something.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

[RumplesGirl]

I did suggest Dorothy…somewhere… *you know you comment too much when you can’t remember where you post things..* There have been several nods to Oz this season and it’s at the top of my list of “lands I need to see.”

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[angiebelle]

I’d rather prefer they stick to storybook classics…wasn’t too thrilled with the Frankenstein inclusion. I agree that Star Wars wouldn’t work- at the very least everything they’ve used has been book based, not film based, and I don’t think using Star Wars would be very organic to the show.

I could see them using Narnia, although I’m less interested in that than Oz or Neverland.

I think it’s strange when people ask for them to include studio specific characters. For instance, I’ve seen a lot of people clamoring for Ruffio from Hook… but he is specific to that film’s mythology of Neverland and doesn’t exist in any other take on Peter Pan. That character is owned by the studio that created that film. I also see Hook as a “what if” scenario rather than part of the real Pan story.

It’s a similar deal for the idea of using the world of Labyrinth. They are studio specific characters and worlds owned by the Jim Henson Company. In general, they’ve used stories that exist across multiple plains- fairytales that have been around in many different forms since the beginning of time, books that are so ingrained in our culture that they are instantly recognizable in any version.

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