ONCE - Once Upon a Time podcast
Reviews, theories, and talk about ABC's Once Upon a Time TV show
It is definitely Granny’s! And it can’t be reused footage from OUAT (like they used of Jefferson, the Jolly Roger, etc.) because when did a hole every open up in there!
It would be really awesome to see those who were left behind in fairytale land after the curse, like Mulan, Aurora, and Phillip, perhaps more with Lancelot/King Arthur? (We didn’t see a body so I’m not entirely convinced he’s dead! :lol:) It would be really cool to see this spinoff tell stories of those characters that weren’t brought to Storybrooke and how everyone is coping/rebuilding, if they didn’t bring in too many new characters and overcomplicate things.
I remembered reading somewhere that E & A clarified when Wonderland would take place in relation to OUAT and a quick search found me this article:
“Wonderland takes place post-curse so that the pilot of Wonderland actually starts when magic comes… then it runs concurrent so that we are in present day Wonderland/post-Queen Of Hearts and just like we saw in the Enchanted Forest, there were pockets that were saved.”
I think this implies that the events we’ll see in Storybrooke in the beginning of the Wonderland pilot take place around the Season 1 finale/Season 2 premiere when Rumple brought magic. So Regina could have definitely been involved with that somehow!
@KFChimera wrote:
Or maybe Cora just had more than one Knave of Hearts.
True! It seems to be more of a title than a name specific to him, so Cora might’ve gone through many. Hopefully that’s a story we’ll see through flashbacks.
Also found out that Lana Parrilla teased on her twitter that she might be appearing on the spinoff, but the tweets have since been deleted it seems 🙁 Possibly she’ll be appearing in the first episode, maybe in Storybrooke? Who knows how this show’s timeline will compare to Once’s.
I wonder if the Knave of Hearts character was trapped in Storybrooke because of the curse and that is where our story will begin? In the trailer/promo pics he appears to be wearing very modern clothing as opposed to the clearly old-fashioned outfits Alice and the others are wearing in the Victorian setting. I know it wouldn’t fit with the timeline of the Knave of Hearts we saw before, but he was such a minor character I could see them rewriting his history to make him a bigger character in Once Wonderland.