Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I was watching this show too, last year. I have also read the first Outlander book.
I think Jaime and Claire’s husband are perfectly cast, not only do they look the part, but they act the part down to a tee. I am disappointed with Claire’s casting though. I have always imagined her as more vulnerable and more ”earth woman” in her appearance, but strong in character. The actress captures her fiery spirit, no but not the vulnerable appearance.
I am also irritated with the narration. I don’t mind the odd excerpt from the book to explain how Claire is feeling, but I would prefer if the actress was talented enough to use her face and voice to give us access to the character’s inner world, so that we are shown how she feels or what she thinks, not told what she thinks via narration. There was one scene early on when the scotsmen first find her and take her back to the hut (where she first meets Jaime) where the narration and the facial expression didn’t match at all.
[adrotate group="5"]Keeper of Regina's bravery
QUESTION Did we find out the mechanics of how exactly Ursula the ex-mermaid-turned-squid/octopus was banished to our world????
I recall Adam and Eddy mentioning that how Ursula and Cruella got banished to our world will be explored in its own episode. My guess is, we find out in the next episode, as it’s a continuation of Unforgiven’s flashback.
Thanks.
It was mentioned in this episode, so I assumed that if they were going to explain it all it would have been in this one. Glad to know that it will be covered.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
How is the Author communicating with August? If he’s inside the book….how does August know?
Tweaking Daniel’s idea (the podcast leader), perhaps the author is communicating by controlling August’s type writer. OR he writes something on a page or uses his own type writer behind the door and the words are transfered onto the August’s typewriter by moving the keys and/or the stamper thingies, like some kind of magical wireless telegraph…except it is a type writer and not morse code. You know what I mean? August’s typwriter stamps out whatever the author is writing or typing at his end.
****
ah you beat me. I edit my post above while you posted this. Anyway, what do you think?
It’s possible I guess, but it would depend in which realm the Author is trapped, seeing how there aren’t telegrams in the Enchanted Forest.
@Slurpeez I think you misunderstood me. I said *like* some kind of *magical* wireless telegraph.
Bascially, not an actual telegraph. Just operates like one, via magic. One type writer in one world dictates what is stamped out onto the typewriter in the other world via magic.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
How much power and control the Author has might lead to a reason why he was trapped behind the door. If he’s someone who actually had influence over people and could create circumstances that led them to make bad choices that led them to become villainous, then perhaps he was locked up – let’s assume by the Sorcerer – because he was leading people astray, like the proverbial “devil on your shoulder”. Basically what I’m getting at I guess is Sorcerer/God kicked Author/Lucifer out and slammed the door on him, hoping to rid everyone of his influence. So if they let him out of the Door and back into the world, they may end up wishing they hadn’t.
That was basically the same theory I was thinking of last night, and I even emailed it to the podcast. Guess I should share what I wrote:
Just thought I’d share this little theory I have about the Author. Some have assumed that Sorcerer might be evil, and trapped the Author in the book for his own nefarious purposes. However, what if this isn’t the case? What if the Author is the sinister and mischievous one? What if the Sorcerer imprisoned the Author in the book, not to abuse his powers for his own gain, but as punishment for his behavior and as a method to keep him under control? Having the power to control everyone’s lives through the power of writing would likely give the Author a God complex, which could in itself be very dangerous. Freeing the Author from his imprisonment could be a huge mistake, and result in yet another catastrophic problem our characters will have to deal with.
I still thing it is the other way round.
Originally.. I said that the sorcerer trapped the author behind the door for his own benefit….that maybe he is forcing the author to write certain things, or sabotage his work (page 2 of this thread and elsewhere a week ago).
Perhaps the sorcerer is evil and is punishing the author for not writing a happy ending, or is forcing him to do so, but the author is finding create ways to not give him it.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
QUESTION
Did we find out the mechanics of how exactly Ursula the ex-mermaid-turned-squid/octopus was banished to our world????
Keeper of Regina's bravery
It was Poseidon who said that Ariel brought him to the portal. 34 minutes in: ”a young mermaid found me and brought me to a portal” Once Ariel tells him of Ursula’s wherabouts, he should have been able to create his own portal from where he was standing when Ariel approached him. Instead, he had to be brought to one, which indicates that he could not create his own portal between where he was and SB.
Actually, now I think about it, he was definitely written as a weak god:
1) because he can’t create portals between where he was standing when Ariel approached him and SB
2) He could not take shell out of Hook’s hand by magic
3) Ursula having tentacles made her more powerful than him. Even if it wasn’t A and E’s intention to make him look weak, this kind of writing to ensure that the plot moves forward does indeed not make him look like the all-powerful deity that he should be.
Okay I think I can clear up some of my own confusions here.
-The trident might contain much of Poseidon’s power, and it disappeared when Ursula used it, so this could explain why Ursula became more powerful than him…it had nothing to do with the tentacles.
-Based on no in-show evidence, I am going to make a leap in logic and say that the reason why he could not create his own portal to our world after Ariel told him where his daughter was, was because he didn’t have his trident.
Nonetheless, he still could have whisked the shell out of Hook’s hand while they were both on the ship. The moment of weakness was needed for the plot to move forward, but I did not find it believable so it irked me.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
To stay on topic, the OP:
August claims the Author is trapped in the book. How did the Author get stuck in there? How do they (heroes or villains) let him out?
-We already know the sorcerer trapped the author behind the door. The mechanics of how this was done is yet to be revealed.
-Perhaps Emma, the savior, needs to use the book or August’s typewriter to add to the author’s story and write him out of the door. If she does it when she is dark, then the author is released but is compelled by some kind of silly magical rule to let the villains win.
(I have already suggested that the sorcerer might be controlling what the author is writing for his own benefit, but maybe the author has some artistic liscence and he spent many hundreds of years moving chess pieces such as Rumple around to create Emma so that he can eventually be released).
Theory based on: nothing. Just a wild guess.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
My guess is that the image of the door was never in Henry’s book. (Also the other images of inside the hat may only show some of the wall, not the whole wall). There is a reason why August and it wasn’t in Henry’s book…because August didn’t put it in, maybe. Or maybe the page appeared to August/boy Pinocchio after he fixed Henry’s book.
But August said he had removed the picture from Henry’s book. So unless he was lying again, it really was bound in the storybook before August ever came to SB, met Henry, “borrowed” the book, or tampered with it.
Also, even if it is/was in the book, there is no indication that the author is behind it. Regina and Henry now know this because it was labelled as the author’s door on a post-it note, not because it was shown on the actual page.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
Potential plot hole: Why doesn’t Henry remember the picture of the Author’s door being in his book? He had read the book many times before August came to town, tampered with the book, and removed the picture of the door.
My guess is that the image of the door was never in Henry’s book. (Also the other images of inside the hat may only show some of the wall, not the whole wall). There is a reason why August and it wasn’t in Henry’s book…because August didn’t put it in, maybe. Or maybe the page appeared to August/boy Pinocchio after he fixed Henry’s book.
Also, even if it is in the book, there is no indication that the author is behind it. Regina and Henry now know this because it was labelled as the author’s door on a post-it note, not because it was shown on the actual page.
I think it is a plot point that might get resolve later on 😉
Keeper of Regina's bravery
Tweaking Daniel’s idea (the podcast leader), perhaps the author is communicating by controlling August’s type writer. OR he writes something on a page or uses his own type writer behind the door and the words are transfered onto the August’s typewriter, like some kind of magical…what is that device used one hundred years ago to send messages? (not a telephone, and you tap it).
You mean a telegram via Morse code?
ah you beat me. I edit my post above while you posted this. Anyway, what do you think?
I also wonder if it goes both ways…if it is possible to use August’s typewriter to contact the author.
Keeper of Regina's bravery
