[Gaultheria]

I have no idea about those dwarf eggs. They make no sense in my head so I just go “magic!” and leave well enough alone.

As an exercise, how evil can we make the fairies? They need hardworking, loyal labourers for dangerous work in the mines. How about if the eggs are personality reprogramming chambers, or something like the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers? That would give an unending supply of miners who would whistle while they worked.

[Gaultheria]

This we know. Regina brought with her people from other lands that she wanted to come over. People she’s had dealing with.

Regina wouldn’t have been able to hand-pick each person, so the decision-making process probably started very specifically and became less and less focussed:

A-list: Snow and Charming

B-list: their family, friends, and allies

C-list: people with particular skills (doctor, sheriff, dragon,…)

D-list: peasants, enough to fill in the background for a proper kingdom

I feel like this is one of those questions that bothers people because we’re modern and think there has to be an explanation. It’s like I’ve said before: the Curse provided. It was designed to keep the residents alive forever, not knowing who they were. It provided everything they needed to keep them alive.

I wonder if Mayor Mills’ memories are completely accurate, then.  Could be that she only thinks she wasn’t affected.  She unleashed the curse so that she could feel in control, and she seems to think that she was responsible for all of the detail work, but there was way too much for one person to organize.

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[Gaultheria]

Belle is a strong person who hasn’t had much opportunity to shine on her own.  Her role has mostly been as a supporting character for Rumpel, but she’s been more prominent than minor characters such as Archie or Granny, and most of her screen time has defined her in relation to Rumpel.  Now that those two are going to spend a considerable time apart, Belle’s character can develop on screen in other ways.  I’m betting that she’ll be the new mayor by the time the ship returns.

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[Gaultheria]

Much appreciated, RumplesGirl; thanks!

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[Gaultheria]

@RumplesGirl wrote:

The “t-word” = timeline, a term that some of us refuse to use because it causes stress and a deep need for chocolate.

In that case, let’s put the other t-word on the list, too.

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[Gaultheria]

I think she’s always known, at least subconsciously, that magic is bad for her. Using the curse to get rid of all magic, including her own, helped her to grow up, at least a little.

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[Gaultheria]

It might also be a reference to her memory loss, since lace is full of holes.

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For me, the show is on the tipping point of the Eight Deadly Words: “I don’t care what happens to these people”. (Ref: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EightDeadlyWords)

Season one had the ongoing tragedy — I mean that in the sense of good literary tragedy — of the town with amnesia. That made every victory in either timeline bittersweet. With season two, the characters have lost much of their complexity, and flashbacks now operate more like disjointed background information than like parallel storylines.

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[Gaultheria]

I was going to put this under “Least Favourite”, but I got a genuine chuckle out of it, so I’ll file it under “Favourite” instead:

Greg throws a bean.
“The last bean,” says Regina.
The bean opens a portal.
“They’ve opened a portal,” says Regina.

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@MysteryKat25 wrote:

It does beg the question that if the shadow only wants boys, why did it take Wendy in the first place?

Peter — assuming that’s who the shadow is — doesn’t want to move on from childhood (where it’s Us versus Them), but he’s not being entirely successful at resisting growing up and is noticing girls.

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