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@Keb wrote:
They’ve said things that would suggest that, but there was a tweet recently insisting that it was our Victorian England. Thus the headache.
They’ve said that Wonderland’s Victorian England is another world, though, and Alice lives contemporaneously with the characters of Once.
That is a headache because I remember them being really specific about the fact that they have not envisioned it as real world England but storybook land. I am trying to remember which interview I saw or heard it on.
I heard K & H indicate that the Victorian England depicted in the show is not part of “our” world. It is the England of a storybook. I can’t remember if it was an interview about Wonderland or OUAT but it certainly helps the whole “timeline” issue of Baelfire in London, England.
For the first half of Season Two I was really frustrated. I got sooooo tired of the pink sweater…of whining Aurora…on an on. I simply did not enjoy it as much as Season One. However, now that I am re-watching Season Two, knowing where the story is going and what it is building towards I am enjoying it so much more.
In many ways it is like Season One was a specific Lego Kit. The set is great, complete, and the scene that can be built from it is delightful. Season Two was (to me) like an expander kit. Not as special…not as complete….a vast jumble of specialty bricks and regular bricks. But now that I know where they are going with the story I am excited. I think Season Three is going to be as delightful as Season One and all the specialty bricks are there to build a vast array of scenes.
Those are great points. Until I did some reading about Jinns, I thought they were part of fairy tales and I was surprised to learn that they are not. We know Tamara is not from FTL and that Jane E. indicated that Tamara appears to be human…this leaves the door open for the possibility that she could be a jinn. In Fruit of the Poisinous Tree, Sidney mentioned one thousand and one…which is a reference to One Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights. This would be a different land than FTL. We also know there will be a Jinn/Genie in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland so this would give interesting tie in opportunity between the stories.
Because Greg/Owen was also participating in the long con the jinn hints could point to him as well. The Jinn world is an unseen world just like the computer world of Tron Legacy is an unseen world. So it is possible that it could take that path as well. Kevin Flynn’s middle initial is “O” which adds a little more fuel to the possibility that he is Owen’s uncle, but that is really a different discussion for a different thread. It is interesting that little Owen/Greg loves Star Wars and there is the specific reference to Darth and Luke’s lightsabers. Who discovered little Anakin??? Qui-Gon Jinn. Interesting.
I am not sure how committed I am right now to this theory but I am exploring it. There are many parallels between the Sidney centric episode, Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, and Tamara’s story. One of the first things that jumped out to me is they were both conducting a long con. Putting that together with some of Tamara’s comments that have religious overtones lead me to explore this path. Although costume colors do not always indicate a connection it is also interesting that Tamara wears blue and orange just like Sidney…and at her first meeting with Neal she was spying on him using a mirror. Like I said…I haven’t put all my weight on this theory but it is interesting. As others have said, I also see possible connections with Cinderella’s fairy Godmother and the Robin Hood story. I’ll post more as I walk down this trail. It may lead to nowhere but it is intresting.
Here is the intro from the Jinn article in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn
The jinn (Arabic: الجن al-jinn, singular الجني al-jinnī; also spelled djinn), or genies, are spiritual creatures mentioned in the Qur’ān and Islamic mythology who inhabit an unseen world in dimensions beyond the visible universe of humans. Together, the jinn, humans and angels make up the three sapient creations of God. The Qur’an mentions that the jinn are made of a smokeless and “scorching fire”,[1] but also physical in nature, being able to interact physically with people and objects and likewise be acted upon.[clarification needed][2] Like human beings, the jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent and hence have freewill like humans and unlike angels.[3] The jinn are mentioned frequently in the Qurʾan, and the 72nd surah is titled Sūrat al-Jinn.
I agree about loving the idea that London is the London of fictional literature. I’m thinking of it as a Charles Dicken’s London because of the Oliver Twist comment that K&H made.
@Gypsy wrote:
If the electromgnetic build up wasn’t released, the ‘cork’ that was at the source of the island would have become dislodged, destroying the island. Detonating Jughead cancelled that out.
I, too am a Die Harrd LOSTie 🙂 and I’m not here to debate LOST, either 🙂
Everything I wrote is canon – confirmed by Damon and/or Carlton, years ago.Well it looks like we finally agree on something Gypsy. Good to see you are still in full form here on the forum. Enjoy the finale.
