ONCE - Once Upon a Time podcast
Reviews, theories, and talk about ABC's Once Upon a Time TV show
In “A Taste of the Heights”, we got a hint that we’ll see the story of Remy from Ratatouille. Of the remaining episode titles, “Breadcrumbs” has the most to do with food and rats.
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Why does Regina, Zelena, and Rumple have to worry that witches are being killed? How does this effect them personally? Rumple seemed to think that the three of them would now be in danger?
Rumpel & company don’t know that the murders are limited to witches from that coven. As far as they know, all witches are at risk, or even all magic users. People who are already ensnared in a magical trap are going to be at least a bit paranoid about other magic-related dangers.
It’ll turn out to be just the coven, of course — and probably an internal job, Gothel gathering magic for herself the way she’s been shown doing — because there are only a few hours of storytelling left.
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Dr. Facilier
Nick
Facilier using voodoo to control Nick?
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Robyn: “The truth is, I didn’t love magic. I just felt like I was supposed to … Now, there’s something new I want to try.”
They’re hitting us over the head with the metaphor hammer.
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It would’ve felt more dramatic to me if they hadn’t already had the same ceremony earlier in the same episode.
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Polyjuice potion.
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“so he can … go back to Belle”
I know that a messed-up character’s beliefs don’t necessarily reflect the showrunners’ beliefs, nor that they’re meant to be taken as instruction for the audience, but it just tears my heart apart every time someone talks about a death wish as the ultimate expression of love.
We love people, and they die. It breaks us. We go on (for a while) and learn to cope (somewhat). We don’t have to seek our own death, because that’s inevitable, and making it happen early would just pass on our pain to others.
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I guess my question is more…why is Gothel a wood nymph? Has she ever been one in any iteration of the legend?
Her name means “godmother” — not necessarily fairy godmother, but since this is OUAT, what are the odds? — and she’s associated with plants in the animated movie and a garden in the TV show.
Plus, the hippie hair and Galadriel speech pattern.
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“We’re going to show the entire relationship,”
…which could be read as implying a breakup or a death.
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A connection to the fairies, possibly, since they live in flowers.
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