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This is Ruth’s. Looks like someone riding on the back of a bird.

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Will be interesting to see how Red and Belle’s friendship evolves once Red finds out who Belle’s boyfriend is, and she goes back to him.

@slurpeez108 wrote:

My heart is already shattered. Look at that face; Rumpel looks like a scared kitten! 😥

All I can say is that Robert Carlyle is an absolute acting genius!

@Josephine wrote:

This is Rumple:

Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😆

WAAAAAHHHHH!!!! *sniffle* 🙁 🙁

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Though trapped in FTL, Snow eventually figures out a way to communicate with Charming and “that’s going to change everything.”

Hmmmm.

Also, that pic with their reflections is awesome!

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@PriceofMagic wrote:

No wonder Rumple has self-esteem issues. Who needs enemies when you have a wife like that?

WORD! Mr Carlyle is gonna break my heart approx one frillion times in this ep. 🙁

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That’s priceless! 😆 😆 Good thing you didn’t take that apple, just in case. 😉

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@DanielJLewis wrote:

Remember in “Hat Trick” when the Queen of Hearts was so interested in how Jefferson got to Storybrooke? Remember, also, how much she wanted him to make another hat that would work? I think this is further evidence that Cora is the Queen of Hearts and she wants out of Wonderland, the “annoying little world.”

Yep, she had to have a reason for locking him up and making him work on a hat. Why would QoH be at all concerned with how Jefferson got there and how he could get back? Unless she’s Cora.

I think Jefferson may have succeeded in creating a hat that worked and that’s what Cora used to get back to Enchanted Forest either just before the curse struck, or after the curse was weakened from Emma’s arrival in Storybrooke.

Thing is, I’m not sure that Jefferson actually made his hat. From Hat Trick:

Knave of Hearts: If all you require to travel to your homeland is this magic hat, then surely, you could make another.

Jefferson: I can’t. A hat without magic is just a hat. It won’t work.

Knave of Hearts: Then, there’s your task. Get it to work.

Didn’t sound to me as though he could actually create a working hat himself. Obviously he gave it a red hot go, because his life was at stake, but I don’t think he ever really had a hope of making one. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. So even though it was futile, he kept making those hats and lost his mind in the process.

I think that eventually QoH got bored of him, realised the hat was never gonna happen, let the crackpot go, and turned her attention to finding other ways instead. If they keep the events of Alice in Wonderland at some point in the show’s timeline, that means there’ll be another portal revealed, and Onceiverse Alice may not come from our world, she could just come from FTL. Maybe QoH engages in some animal testing and uses the White Rabbit to test a portal she thinks she’s found. It works, and Alice sees him and follows him back, and that’s ultimately the portal that Cora uses too.

And of course, we still have to figure in how and when Henry Sr ended up in Wonderland. If Cora was ever able to leave Wonderland, odds are she wouldn’t go back again. So I wonder if maybe Henry went looking for her and got trapped? Hmmm, new idea…maybe in a desperate attempt to find a way to save Regina’s soul, Henry goes looking for her mother, hoping she may have changed after what had happened, and may be willing and able to help. He tracks down Cora in Wonderland, and realises she hasn’t changed in the least, at lease not for the better. Cora demands that he tell her how to get back. He refuses, knowing that Regina would be in real danger if Cora could get back. Cora can’t bring herself to have is head removed, so instead she force feeds him a bottle of Wonderland’s famous “drink me” potion, then locks him up in a drawer.

See the stuff I come up with when I start theorising at 3am. 😆

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That scene with Henry going down the stairs definitely looks like a similar setup to the shot with Regina. Dunno that it’s exactly the same stairs though, because the bricks are different and the staircase Henry’s on is much narrower. I’d say they were deliberately set up to look similar though, so it’s a safe bet they are going down to find Cora’s vault to raid it for vital organs. It’d certainly fit with the Frankie reanimating Daniel theory.

Though I’d have to wonder if Regina really thought that plan through, because those stored hearts aren’t your run of the mill donor organs. If they’re all like the Huntsman’s was, it was more than just the physical heart, it was the person’s spirit and free will that was trapped therein. No matter which one they chose to reanimate Daniel, he wouldn’t be her same Daniel. And if they happen to pick the heart of someone nasty, that’s even worse.

There’s so much potential for angst and disaster, I’ve gotta think that this Dr Frankie theory is on the money.

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Awww bless, Rumple needs relationship advice from Charming! <3

Also, I agree with Midnight Dreary that it’s different when the genders are switched in a situation like this. The situation with Regina, though still technically morally wrong, was an empowered woman making an strong, attractive young man her love slave. If they show the worldly Killian deceiving a poor, naive young woman by promising love and then instead prostituting her out to his crew, that would be perceived as MUCH worse than what Regina did to the Huntsman. And if they want people to become Hook fans, that’d be a pretty good way of turning everyone right OFF him from the getgo, so wouldn’t be a smart move on their part.

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@AntBee wrote:

I guess they did do something to create sympathy for Milah then if it’s true. She probably thought that she was being seduced by Hook to be with him, but then when she is taken back to his ship, he lets his crew have their ways with her. They either kill her during the process or she commits suicide because of the shame she feels like she blamed herself for what happened. 😥

If that is indeed what happened, and he tricked her into it, then he’s despicable. But I’m thinking it’s possible that he was just saying that to Rumple to upset him a bit more, (coz he gets off on upsetting people, especially the husbands of women he’s shagging), when it actual fact Milah is there willingly and is Killian’s mistress and the rest of the crew dare not touch her. So I’m reserving my judgement until I see how it plays out.

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I’d never really expected Emma to have actual magic in her genetic makeup, given that neither of her parents had it. But after what we’ve seen so far in season 2 it’s got me thinking, “DUH, of course she’s gonna have magic…she IS magic.”

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