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Wishing Star and Reunions

Home › Forums › Once Upon a Time › Season Four › 4×09 “Fall” › Wishing Star and Reunions

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  • December 1, 2014 at 1:27 am #291825
    Gaultheria
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    I think it doesn’t make a lick of sense that Ariel randomly saved the pirate from a shark feeding frenzy just in the nick of time!

    Blackbeard never named Ariel (and pirates lie, anyway). How about if it was Ursula who saved Blackbeard? She has power over sea creatures, and she’d have use for a ruthless agent on land if she’s planning something.

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    December 1, 2014 at 7:34 am #291830
    TheWatcher
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    a part of me wants to believe it was Ursula who saved him too. Even if Ariel jump int water right after him, how could she save him from sharks? Even in the Disney movie Ariel almost got eaten by a shark herself. Plus there was blood. Yet Blackbeard doesn’t have a scratch on him it seems. It was just dumb to me. And I wasn’t a fan of the wishing star thing either. Plot devices, arriving out of the blue just in the nick of time.

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    December 1, 2014 at 7:39 am #291831
    TheWatcher
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    Also, if the parents had the wishing star, why didn’t they use it? Were they not pure of heart? Is that what Blackberad said?

     

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    December 1, 2014 at 8:16 am #291835
    RumplesGirl
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    Also, if the parents had the wishing star, why didn’t they use it? Were they not pure of heart? Is that what Blackberad said?

    That’s what BB said, yes.

    "He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
    December 1, 2014 at 8:46 am #291842
    Phee
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    If they wanted to leave open the possibility that Blackbeard was alive, they shouldn’t have had the water fricking bubble like multiple creatures were having an instant feeding frenzy. That was going on for long enough before Ariel jumped in that it’s ABSURD that he survived…and with his exact same clothing perfectly intact too. Puh-lease.

    Also, if the parents had the wishing star, why didn’t they use it? Were they not pure of heart? Is that what Blackberad said?

    OMG THIS! If they already had the wishing star (an item they retrieved on a voyage to the foreign land, so yeah, they shoulda known what it was) why did they even need to go on the voyage that got them killed? Just make a wish that Elsa wasn’t magical, or that her magic wouldn’t hurt anyone. Problem solved.

    December 1, 2014 at 9:01 am #291844
    Keb
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    Wishes can be dangerous, though.

    Also, it’s very, very interesting that we saw Blue in an episode with a wishing star. No way that’s just a coincidence.

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    December 1, 2014 at 9:13 am #291846
    MatthewPaul
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    OMG THIS! If they already had the wishing star (an item they retrieved on a voyage to the foreign land, so yeah, they shoulda known what it was) why did they even need to go on the voyage that got them killed? Just make a wish that Elsa wasn’t magical, or that her magic wouldn’t hurt anyone. Problem solved.

    Like Blackbeard said, their parents weren’t pure of heart, so they couldn’t use it. Possibly because of what Gerda did to Ingrid and her intents on removing Elsa’s powers. Perhaps her fear of Ingrid and Elsa’s powers are what made her heart not pure.

    December 1, 2014 at 9:18 am #291847
    RumplesGirl
    Keymaster

    Wishes can be dangerous, though. Also, it’s very, very interesting that we saw Blue in an episode with a wishing star. No way that’s just a coincidence.

    Why? BF is just Plot Device Fairy. They’ve never done anything about her being “the blue star” post “The Return” so why the absolute insistence that it must mean something now?

     

    Unless you want to draw the conclusion that the plot device necklace and the plot device fairy are linked by way of their extreme plot device nature.

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    December 1, 2014 at 10:29 am #291852
    Corbin
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    What I don’t understand is that, if Blackbeard was alive, why didn’t Hook just try and kill him again for his ship? He was perfectly willing to do it before, so he could’ve just gotten the bean from Blackbeard (who’s name is not split in two, which is a historical fact that Once apparently doesn’t mind changing) after killing him and everything would be solved.

    The thing that bugged me about the wishing star was that there was no foreshadowing up to it. It was just THERE and apparently everyone was fine with that. If there had been foreshadowing, I’d be more fine with it.

    (But Plot Device Fairy is now chilling with Plot Device Fairies in Plot Device Hat. Let’s get the Black Fairy’s wand, Rapunzel, and ALL THE BEANS in there and have a Plot Device Party!)

     

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    December 1, 2014 at 11:52 am #291865
    Slurpeez
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    OMG THIS! If they already had the wishing star (an item they retrieved on a voyage to the foreign land, so yeah, they shoulda known what it was) why did they even need to go on the voyage that got them killed? Just make a wish that Elsa wasn’t magical, or that her magic wouldn’t hurt anyone. Problem solved.

    I don’t think the problem would be solved, because I don’t think Queen Gerda was pure of heart. Her husband probably was just her consort who went along with everything his wife commanded. Even assuming Elsa’s parents did wish for their daughter to be “normal” (i.e. powerless), that wish doesn’t seem like a pure-hearted one to me. Their daughter was born with special talents, but her parents didn’t recognize them as such. After way Gerda trapped Ingrid in that bottle for killing Helga, it seems like Gerda was afraid of Elsa killing Anna. It sounds like a very selfish wish, one meant to protect themselves and Anna, rather than trying to help Elsa learn to control her power.

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