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@AngieBelle wrote:
You know…maybe I’m warming up to the Frankenstein theory a bit…
If Regina used the magic portals in the hat to pull Dr. Frankenstein out of his world in hopes that he could bring Daniel back to life for her- I could buy that. It would give a reason for such an out of place character to be present. I’m not entirely on board, but at least I found a way that the theory would make sense!
That was my major sticking point too, I just couldn’t figure out how they could weave him into the story. But it’d make perfect sense if Regina enlists him in a desperate attempt to bring back Daniel.
[adrotate group="5"]Does Frankenstein bring people back from the dead? I thought he just reanimated a corpse which is different then returning a soul to a body.
@hjbau wrote:
Does Frankenstein bring people back from the dead? I thought he just reanimated a corpse which is different then returning a soul to a body.
That’s probably why we haven’t seen Daniel around. Even if Regina brought on Dr. Whale/Frankenstein to bring Daniel back to life, I don’t think the reanimated corpse would be “Daniel.” He could’ve came back as a zombie, and the poor guy ended up dying twice 🙁
@slurpeez108 wrote:
Here’s an awesome photo from Tumblr of the Dr. Whale = Dr. Frankenstein theory:
This is too funny…look what I just found. Frankenstein, Missouri is 12 miles east of Jefferson City, Missouri. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein,_Missouri
@Phee wrote:
@AngieBelle wrote:
You know…maybe I’m warming up to the Frankenstein theory a bit…
If Regina used the magic portals in the hat to pull Dr. Frankenstein out of his world in hopes that he could bring Daniel back to life for her- I could buy that. It would give a reason for such an out of place character to be present. I’m not entirely on board, but at least I found a way that the theory would make sense!
Argh- much as it pains me to say it, I’m not hating it totally now either 😉
Still would rather he not be for reasons I’ve stated elsewhere, but so far Whale ‘fits’ & if that continues to be the case it really doesn’t matter ‘who’ he is I suppose.
@fairy dust wrote:
This is too funny…look what I just found. Frankenstein, Missouri is 12 miles east of Jefferson City, Missouri. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein,_Missouri
This is not a coincidence! 😯
@Phee wrote:
@AngieBelle wrote:
You know…maybe I’m warming up to the Frankenstein theory a bit…
If Regina used the magic portals in the hat to pull Dr. Frankenstein out of his world in hopes that he could bring Daniel back to life for her- I could buy that. It would give a reason for such an out of place character to be present. I’m not entirely on board, but at least I found a way that the theory would make sense!
That was my major sticking point too, I just couldn’t figure out how they could weave him into the story. But it’d make perfect sense if Regina enlists him in a desperate attempt to bring back Daniel.
It’s all starting to fall in place 😀 Guess Regina wants to be the Bride of Frankenstein (the bride of the creature)
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[attachment=2:33uuskue]bride of frankenstein.jpg[/attachment:33uuskue]hjbau wrote: Does Frankenstein bring people back from the dead? I thought he just reanimated a corpse which is different then returning a soul to a body.
If Dr. Frankenstein tries to reanimate Daniel’s body per Regina’s request, I think it’ll be a botched experiment. Regina said in S1 that there was no bringing back the person she’d lost, which makes me think she tried and then failed miserably.
Gypsy wrote: Dr Frankenstein created life where there was none.
Exactly. Daniel’s reanimated corpse won’t really be the “true” Daniel. He’ll be a monster whom they have to kill again or who let’s himself die, as happened in the novel.
We may see Daniel’s true soul appear to Regina in SB as a ghost, which would make a highly interesting contrast with what happen in FTL that was.
"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
In 1×22, A Land Without Magic, at the very end, once the curse is broken, we see Dr. Whale sitting in a chair looking very confused. His posture very much reminded me of Auguste Rodin’s statue “The Thinker”.
Now the The Thinker is suppose to represent Dante, at the Gates of Hell, in Dante’s work A Divine Comedy. Mary Shelly – Frankenstein, exert from chapter 5: Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived!
As well, there is a rockbilly/surf band out there, from Portugal, called Dr. Frankenstein. They released a CD in 2005 called The Cursed Tapes. One of the tracks is called “The Mad Thinker”.
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
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