Walsh

[once_dude]

Emma and Tinman I can buy much more than Konkey Swan for some unknown reason.

[RumplesGirl]

Here’s an interesting theory. What if prior to becoming a flying monkey, Walsh started out as the Tin Man? Think about it. He owned a furniture store, which could tie into his occupation as a woodsman. He also wanted to win Emma’s heart. Perhaps Zelena promised the Tin Man a love life in exchange for servitude, and walla he’s a disguised flying monkey dating Emma. Of course Walsh could simply just be a flying monkey and nothing more, but hey why not share a theory.

i like it

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

[Phee]

Here’s an interesting theory. What if prior to becoming a flying monkey, Walsh started out as the Tin Man? Think about it. He owned a furniture store, which could tie into his occupation as a woodsman.

That would actually fit really well. It sounded to me like he didn’t just sell furniture, he actually made it, because he said something about finishing Emma’s order 2 weeks early. There’s gotta be some reason that they gave him the occupation of “furniture store owner” and actually made it a point to mention it, and actually make it a part of the story. If the guy who makes wooden furniture in our world was a lumberjack in another world, that’s pretty perfect.

He also wanted to win Emma’s heart. Perhaps Zelena promised the Tin Man a love life in exchange for servitude, and walla he’s a disguised flying monkey dating Emma.

The only thing that trips me up a bit on this is how he so casually said, “And I kinda liked you,” which I wouldn’t expect from someone who had been magically granted the gift of a lover. But then again, perhaps he needed the ring on her finger in order to seal the deal, and because that didn’t happen, he didn’t truly have his heart back yet, which is how he was able to sound so dismissive of her?

I’m really liking this MonkeyTinManWalsh theory now.

[Keb]

For me, the timing with Walsh looks like serious foreshadowing. He’s been with Emma 8 months. Guess who looks 8 months pregnant?

*shifty eyes*

I’m thinking timeline fun will follow here…

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[Phee]

Now that you mention it, Keb, that IS some seriously curious timing. Hmmmm.

[storyteller]

Once again Eddie and Adam have been clever about character names. Remember how everyone was trying to figure out why Doctor Whale’s last name was well, Whale? Well it turned out he was named for the director of the Frankenstein pictures. The character of Walsh is named for one Pat Walshe, who wait for it played the Wicked Witch of the West’s second banana Nikko the Flying Monkey in the 1939 film.

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[sdcurtis]

Going with the Tin Man theory in the original story… the tin man was an actual man and he fell in love.  The girl he fell in love with was as the book put it, “…living with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and housework”(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 88).  This woman went to the wicked witch of the east to enchant the ax the Tin man (then ordinary woodsman) was using.   First it chopped off the left leg and the man went and got a leg made out of tin and this process continued it’s self until he was completely made of tin.  What if instead of being turned into the tin man he was turned into a monkey with the ability to transform.  Given how the writers like to put a twist on the story, what if the Tin Man’s story is actually the story of Walsh.

[Jenna_B]

I like the Tin Man theory…but that “kind of liked you” line is really tripping me up there.  I haven’t read the books, but in the movies the whole point is that the Tin Man doesn’t need a heart, he already has one…he loves without it.  So wouldn’t Walsh already love her?  I guess he could’ve entered into a pact with the WW to get back to his own love that isn’t Emma….?

[RumplesGirl]

I like the Tin Man theory…but that “kind of liked you” line is really tripping me up there. I haven’t read the books, but in the movies the whole point is that the Tin Man doesn’t need a heart, he already has one…he loves without it. So wouldn’t Walsh already love her? I guess he could’ve entered into a pact with the WW to get back to his own love that isn’t Emma….?

That might be the ONCE twist. As we’ve seen with Graham and the Knave of Hearts, remove the heart and emotions cease. It’s not true to the books, but it is true to the ONCEiverse

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

[Gaultheria]

What if prior to becoming a flying monkey, Walsh started out as the Tin Man? Think about it. He owned a furniture store, which could tie into his occupation as a woodsman. He also wanted to win Emma’s heart. Perhaps Zelena promised the Tin Man a love life in exchange for servitude, and walla he’s a disguised flying monkey dating Emma.

I like that a lot. It feels like a Once Upon A Time life story.

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