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I dreamt that I bought a season 2 script through Ebay. As I read through it, I kept mumbling, “Oh, so that’s how they’re solving that mystery.” Darn it all, when I woke I couldn’t recall a single onr of the mystery solutions my dream had conjured.
[adrotate group="5"]And Gold could give Jefferson a forgetting potion, if Jefferson still wants it (I think there’s a chance he will, rather than take Grace from a happy home).
Yup, if you ‘ve told me back in the day that the reason the library was closed was that it housed a dragon…
Now I’m so deeply invested in the series that my reaction is “Mal ‘s gone; time to dust those shelves and reopen!”In mid-May I polled this question and the results were pretty evenly split between Belle, Blue Fairy and Rumple. It looks like we’re no closer to a consensus. Last month, I was convinced BF was the writer– now I’m now sold on Rumple as the writer, and he wrote it before leaving FTL.
1. he has the depth and breadth of knowledge to tell the stories accurately–he witnessed them
2. time and again, he ‘s made remarks that sound like things a writer would care about. He’s especially concerned with the characters’ clothes (Ella and Charming) being “right.”
3. he has motives. The book could be his contribution to the future generations: knowing his dark curse would destroy FTL, maybe he wanted them to have a history of those days. Or it could be his gift to Bae, when he sees him again. Or it may have been created to do exactly what it’s done: lead to Emma’s coming.
4. Mostly, though, I think Rumple wrote it as an homage to love, which he ‘s professed to be a fan of. The theme of every story is: love is the ultimate power, the only power to trust. So maybe the book is meant to sell others on that theory–or to sell himself.
If we could only find out WHEN the book was written, we ‘d have a better chance of finding the author. I’ m a limb -climber, so I ‘m going out on another limb to say not only did Rumple write the book– he wrote some or all of it before the events of the stories happened. So it’s not a book of histories; it’s a book of futures. That explains why his personal stories are left out (if they are): he can’t see his own future Once he knows a character’s name, he can access that person’s future–when Snow told him Emma’s name, he could see Henry as part of her future.That’s my limb and I’m clinging to it. For now.
I’ve been holding off on “Skin Deep” in case anyone else would like to adopt it. Claim it now or it’s mine, all mine *mwa ha ha ha*
The Return, cont’d
The BF says the curse “can’t be done, not without a great price.” Rumple claims he’s already paid.
She says he hasn’t the ability to create the curse ; he argues he will try no matter how long it takes. “I will do nothing else, I will love nothing else.” He accuses her of taking Bae; she refutes it; he persists and screams into empty air as she vanishes.The Return, cont’d
Why the scam, Gold wants to know . August says, “I had to make you work for it…Do I even look like him at all?” Gold figures out that August came from FTL, then he thows August against a tree, dagger to his throat, and asks who told him about the dagger and about Gold. August claims he a fairy told him. “If you know who I am, then you know who I am,’ Gold says ominously. “The chances of you suvivinfmg this little encounter are pretty slim.” August claims he’s dying and needs magic to live. Gold softens a liitle. August continues that he approached Emma first but since she doesn’t believe in the curse, she can’t help. Gold argues that Emma trusts August, so he should try again to convince her. Gold releases August: “You’re going to die either way. At least this say I might get something out of it.”
In FTL, Rumple summons the Blue Fairy. She doesn’t seem surprised that he’s still in FTL; in fact, shereacts rather self-righteously. Before he can ask, she declares there are no more magic beans. “That’s a lie, ” Rumple roars. He begins guessing other means of transport to the land without magic. The fairy hesitates when he guesses “a curse, ” then smugly answers, “Of course you would think of a curse instead of a blessing. Your magic is limited by its own rotten core. “The Return, cont’d
FTL: As he and Bae make their way through the night, Rumple frets. He doesn’t trust the BF, thinks thd bean is a trick and will kill them. Bae starts into the vortex the bean creates but Rumple holds onto him, using the dagger as a stake to pin them to the ground. Bae calls him a coward for violating their deal, then Bae slips into the votex and disappears. The vortex closes. Rumple digs frantically, calling for Bae and insisting he wants to come too, but it’s too late.
In SB, Gold confesses, “You were right, Bae.” As August looks away, Gold admits he was a coward and asks for forgiveness. “In every waking moment I’ve been looking for you.” As they embrace, Gold cries and asks if Bae forgives him. August says he does. Gold says he knows August has come to the woods to find the dagger. August explains that if Gold still has the dagger, he would know Gold hasn’t changed. Gold takes him to the spot at which he buried the dagged after Emma arrived in town; he says he was hiding it from Regina. He then offers the dagger to August, recommending its destruction, “the way you always wanted to. I found you and I don’t need it any more. I chose it once; now I choose you.”
But August turns the dagger on Gold and tries to command him with it. Gold realizes August has scammed him: Bae would’ve known Gold has no magic because that’s why Bae wanted to come to this world to begin with.The Return, cont’d
In SB, Gold raps on Archie’s office door, then changes his mind and starts to leave. Archie catches him and immediately asks if he’s come for the rent [doesn’t anyone pay by mail? ] Gold asks ruefully why people keep assuming that’s what he wants. Archie invites him in to talk. Gold is reluctant but enters. Archie is surprised to learn Gold has a son, even more surprised to learn that Gold thinks his estranged son has come to town to find him. He ducks the question of Bae’s age–a question that would have required a revelation of FTL and the curses. As to why the son is holding back, Gold says, “There was conflict. I’m not sure he’s ready for a tear-soaked reunion.” Archie assumes the son was the one who needed to apologize, but Gold corrects him. Anger is normal, Archie assures–then Gold says, “I think he might be here to try to kill me.” Archie admits that’s not normal. “I let him go. I ‘ve spent my entire life since trying to fix it, ” Gold says. Archie advises Gold to “be honest…ask for forgiveness.” Gold admits, “Honesty’s never been the best color on me.” Archie presses: “There’s no other way.”
Later, in the woods, Gold has followed August to the cabin. Gold confronts him: “I know who you are and I know what you’re looking for.” August seems pleased that he can now be honest with his “papa.”The Return, cont’d
In FTL, Bae calls for the ruel ghorm. The Blue Fairy appears and immediately recognizes him as a kid in trouble. “There is good magic and dark magic and I am on the right side.” As soon as Bae says his father is the Dark One, BF says she can’t change him back but she can send him someplace where he can’t use his magic. She assures Bae it’s not a jail. “What ails your father is specific to our world. His powers do not belong here.” Does this mean no Dark Ones exist outside FTL? Does it mean that in another place, the Dark One’s magic would “belong”?
She says the only way Rumple can “escape this wretched curse” is to go to a “land without magic.” Bae is up for the challenge: he will go anywhere to help his father. “You are the part of him that keeps him human, ” she praises. She gives Bae a magic bean, explaining that there are other beans like it but they’ve been lost. “It will save you both,” she promises.
Bae returns home excited; Rumple looks annoyed by the news of the bean. He recognizes the name “ruel ghorm” as the Blue Fairy and points out that fairy magic “doesn’t mix well with what I am.” He doesn’t want to go to the land wthout magic, where he would be “powerless …weak.” Bae reminds him of their deal and he reluctantly accedes.
