[Keb]

It means Violet Believer lives, but OUCH Emma. That was dark. That was really, really dark.

[Keb]

Just popping in to say so many feels tonight. Love you guys. Hugs.

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[Keb]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

Tonight’s ep was my fave of S5 so far but I have a feeling next week’s will beat it for me.

Also my heart is still racing after seeing that promo.

ZOMG!!!!!!!!!

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[Keb]

Yeah, I don’t see it, though there could be a link between that king and Merlin. That would be an interesting twist.

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[Keb]

You know, I really like this movie, even if it wasn’t that popular.

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[Keb]

I know what they’ve said, but after Skin Deep (which is set on Feb 14, 2012–one of few very specific dates we actually have) S1 starts moving at a really fast pace. I had initially tried to stretch it out, but the internal clues for the episodes after Skin Deep really do pretty much say things happen day-by-day (or less–Hat Trick only gets a few hours for the whole episode based on the premise of when Mary Margaret escaped and when she was going to be in serious trouble for it). There aren’t a whole lot of places to pad it in the second half of the season–I could add a few weeks around 113, but not six months. And once Kathryn tries to leave Storybrooke, the pace just goes zoom.

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[Keb]

Copying over the calculations I did just after 504 in the Favorite Moments thread. But it definitely tracks (and confirms that my timeline is pretty close to accurate…as well as that A&E and team take great liberties with how time works).

Okay, some relevant dates as I haven’t really started timelining S5 yet (and please keep in mind that ALL my dates are estimates with a few exceptions):

6/18/2013: Emma becomes The Dark One.
6/7/2013: Gold’s return to Storybrooke (start of QoD arc)
4/18/2013: Belle banishes Rumple (end of Frozen arc)
4/6/2013: Emma, Hook, and “Marian”/Zelena return from the past. (End of S3/Zelena arc)
3/26/2013: Hook finds Emma in New York (end of the Missing Year)
4/1/2012: Belle & Neal visit the Dark One Vault. (In the missing year, early on)
3/26/2012: Regina undoes the curse and the missing year starts.
3/19/2012: Jolly Roger goes to Neverland to rescue Henry (end of S2)
2/23/2012: Emma breaks The Curse. (End of S1)
10/23/2011: Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke (start of S1) and time begins moving again in all the affected magical realms.
10/22/1983: Emma’s birth/The curse is enacted. Time is frozen in all the magical realms.
1/21/1983: Snow and Charming’s public wedding.
4/11/1982: Snow and Charming’s private wedding, officiated by Lancelot.
4/30/1981: Belle leaves the Dark Castle.
2/1/1981: Rumple shows Belle the gauntlet he just took from Camelot.
12/31/1980: Roland born. (I have Marian saved about a week before this.)
12/19/1980: Belle goes to the Dark Castle.

So, if my date for the gauntlet is close: 2/1/1981 puts it 34 months before the curse. Since time began moving again, I have it at about 21 months now, give or take. (22 if you go to the six weeks, but that’s not when the show claimed 5 years). 55 months comes out to 4.58 years. It’s…fudging a bit, but I’ll give them 5. PLUS 28.

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[Keb]

I’m not saying that Rumple doesn’t know how to love–just that there IS a selfish element to how he expresses that love, along with the fear that makes him push it away. He did overcome his selfishness when he sacrificed his life to defeat Pan, showing that he’s capable of true love (which I’m still defining as sacrificial in the show’s portrayal), but the streak of possessiveness that he has with the people he loves shows that most of the time he’s failed.

I dunno. It’s a tricky thing because he IS a complex character who has been through a LOT and bent to suit the needs of plot in places. And omission has hurt his portrayal as well; why cut any scene that showed his loving side during 4A?

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[Keb]

It’s also entirely possible there’s part of the prophecy/sies we haven’t heard yet. Maybe Merlin also predicted Arthur’s downfall, and he believes that without Merlin, that part won’t come true.

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[Keb]

Merlin’s appearance to Emma is the only weird bit I see–because the communication with the apprentice took place entirely by magic. At least the bit we saw.

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