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Let’s make a list (and feel free to add to it in case I missed anyone):
I hear someone saying “Mistress mine, my will is thine”.
Edited to add: Although Jafar is a villain, he’s a popular character because of his charisma and because we sympathize with his motives (though not his means). With Will’s still-untold story, and now the Aladdin poster, I think we’d all be surprised if Jafar isn’t the antagonist next season.
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Another possibility:
(3) The babies were switched. (It would sort of parallel David and James.)
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Have you tried clicking on the menu icon in the upper-right of the chat and turning off the sound?
Yes but it comes back whenever you refresh your page
When the chat pane is docked to a forum window, I only get to toggle the sound between “minimized” and “always”. The “off” option is only available when I open chat in its own window. That would be okay, except that chat doesn’t disappear from the forum window; it just opens a duplicate chat in its own window, and the chat in the forum window keeps blooping.
A couple more things:
The chat tab only appears at the bottom of the page once you’ve scrolled down a bit. If the page is short (eg, this one, when RumplesGirl’s post #300771 was the latest post), then the chat tab doesn’t appear even when you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. (Edited to add: I think I was wrong about this. It looks like the chat tab takes several seconds to load, regardless of page length — ie, page loading time.)
In Safari on my Ipad2 (ios 8.2), as soon as I’ve scrolled down far enough for the chat tab to appear, the on-screen keyboard appears. It seems that when chat first appears on the page, even though it’s still minimized in a tab, it’s in “write a new comment” mode rather than “read previous comments” mode.
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More video:
Looks like an arcade claw crane picking someone up by the head!
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When I have a forum page open, even with the chat panel hidden at the bottom of the window, the chat’s “new message” sound can only be minimized, not turned off completely. Sound can be turned off completely when the chat panel is open in its own window, as long as I don’t have any forum pages open, so maybe there’s an admin setting for that.
I mostly don’t use the chat, but I like to have several forum pages open in Firefox tabs while I do my AV work, and the “bloop” is getting to me.
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I don’t see one at all yet. Is it running right now? Or between tests?
It’s minimized at first, as a blue “Community Chat” tab at the bottom of the window. It should open when you click on it.
If you’re not logged in, it’s a grey tab, which turns into the blue tab when you click on it, and then it opens when you click on it again.
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Without the chat, pages seem to load much faster on my ipad2. I haven’t noticed a difference on my desktop machine, though.
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For me, I think this means that Emma will be able to take people “home” to the EF effortlessly without needing a portal or a bean or any other plot device to travel between realms.
With fairytales as cautionary life lessons, I see the enchanted forest as a metaphor for childhood, the real world as adulthood, and Storybrooke as the intermediate stage. I think Storybrooke’s residents need the opportunity to choose, but that the real world is the most fulfilling choice. Emma has a special perspective because of where she was born and where she grew up, and she’s had longer to contend with the decision because she can cross the town line, so she’d be a good gatekeeper/Charon/midwife. (Metaphors, eh? Once it starts…)
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As for the Rumple factor, that’s an interesting way to look at it and not one I’d stopped to consider. But, I guess the question I come back to is…is there really hope for the “devil” after everything he’s done. Lucifer isn’t forgiven; he’s cast into a pit of fire and brimstone (in Rev.)
I think the devil in this case would be whatever the original Dark One power is, and the people whose names are on the dagger are just those who have believed the lies of that dark power. The devil himself doesn’t become a prisoner until the very end of the book.
(Just to put my cards on the table face-up, I’m from a quiet fundamentalist denomination. I don’t want to annoy anyone.)
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So how does the story play out? Well…(spoiler alert) Jesus died and rises again. But in doing so, he conquers death and the devil (he actually went down to Hell for a few days and then busted out…)
Busted in to free the prisoners, I’ve been taught. I’m mentioning this only because I think it has an interesting potential OUAT story development: if Emma takes on the burden of the Dark One without going over the edge and using it for her own gain, she could be the one to rescue Rumpel and his predecessors from the Dark Ones’ cursed afterlife.
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