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Emma and Mary Margaret, with the aid of Mulan, Aurora and brave knight Lancelot, attempt to find a portal that will bring them back to Storybrooke. But a dark force threatens their safe return.
So Emma and Snow DO go back to FTL past! 😮 And Lancelot is on the side of good….unless he’s trying to double cross them or something and only pretending to help. And again, no mention of Phillip. I’m really starting to think he’s not gonna survive very long. 😕
[adrotate group="5"]@Surayya wrote:
LOL- could you imagine the Classic Fairy tales we all know & love ending with ‘ & they all lived happily ever after for 18yrs, then the kids left home & Prince Charming & Snow White realised they didnt have anything in common any more, their passion was gone; so got a divorce, split the castle & kingdom between them- Prince Charming went a questing, Snow White went bush whacking- the kids split their time between them both & they all ‘sort of’ got on ever after’ 😆
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@slurpeez108 wrote:
That’s so cool that it’s a Lost reference, which I wouldn’t have known otherwise. What exactly happened in Tallahassee on that show?
Oh man, how to explain something Lost related in a nutshell to someone who didn’t watch the show. 😆
Kate has a link to Tallahassee. After she blew up the house with her father in it, her mother called the cops on her, and she tried to flee to Tallahassee, but was caught, but then escaped. That led to the Marshal, Edward Mars’ obsession with hunting her down, (he eventually caught her in Australia and was escorting her back to the US on the flight that crashed).
Kate has a link to Cassidy. Cassidy was a con artist who Kate helped out so she wouldn’t get busted, and in return, Cassidy helped Kate try to re-connect with her mother.
Cassidy has a link to Sawyer, (who mentions having been to Tallahassee once and getting an STD there). Sawyer was also a con artist, and after he attempted to con Cassidy, he instead ended up schooling her in con techniques and they worked together, but he eventually ended up taking her money and running, (she was pregnant with his child).
Sawyer had embarked on a life of being a conman after being scarred for life by an incident when he was a child, when he was still known by his real name, James. His mother had had an affair with a conman who called himself Sawyer, (which is why Sawyer also adopted that name), who screwed the family out of their money. Young James hid under the bed and watched as his father shot first his mother, and then himself. After that, James vowed to find this “Sawyer” and kill him. The conman’s real name was Anthony Cooper.
Anthony Cooper was “The Man From Tallahassee,” (that was an ep title), the show’s ultimate conman. He ended up on the Island, where Sawyer killed him, finally getting the revenge he’d been pursuing his whole life.
Anthony Cooper was the father of John Locke. Locke was regarded as “special” and grew up in the foster system (dun dun duuuunnnn, special kid growing up in the foster system, sound familiar?), but as an adult, reconnected with Anthony. But it turned out Anthony was only forming a relationship with him to con him because he needed a donor kidney. In a later storyline, Locke tried to stop Anthony from conning a woman by marrying her for her money. Anthony ended up pushing Locke out a window, the fall that resulted in him ending up in a wheelchair, (though after the crash, on the Island, Locke could miraculously walk again).
So basically, the man from Tallahassee was the root of why Locke and Sawyer were so messed up, emotionally and physically. Sawyer was the root of why Cassidy was messed up. And Cassidy also interacted with Kate, who had attempted to flee to Tallahassee to escape the cops, which set off a chain reaction that ended up with her landing on the Island. So bad stuff has its root in Tallahassee.
Did that make any sense? Lost stuff can be somewhat convoluted, (to say the very least). 😆 To read more about those characters, you can look them up on http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
@Marilou wrote:
The interesting thing however is that the LOST episode “The Man From Tallahassee” happens in season 3 and the question it answered was one we had been asking since day 1 (how the heel did john became handicapped?)
So, Tallahassee, is a place mostly of hurt and pain but also a place for answer for the public.
Excellent point! And it’s safe to say the pattern may repeat on Once.
@Marilou wrote:
@Phee wrote:
The fact that it’s a Lost reference is the only reason it stuck in my head when Regina said it. 😉 I’d figured it was just a little Lost reference that wouldn’t necessarily be addressed again. Guess I was wrong in that assumption.
a scene in a bar where Emma is being… well, being herself. With, somewhere in the background, a tiny and barely noticeable piss drunk Sawyer
😆 I’d die if they have a Lost connection hidden somewhere in this ep, it’d be brilliant! Nothing glaring or significant, just something like you suggested, that only Lost fans would bother to notice and get a kick out of. All this Tallahassee talk inspired me to take a trip down memory lane and google the Lost stuff that was connected to the place. Found this cool quote on wikipedia:
In an ABC podcast, two of the executive producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, said about Tallahassee: “It just happens to be a nexus point where many of our characters have crossed paths.” “Like a hellmouth?” Cuse asked. “Yeah, like a hellmouth,” Lindelof replied. (Jeff Burlew, Tallahassee Democrat, March 23, 2007).
I doubt Kitsis and Horowitz would have chosen to use Tallahassee of all places if there wasn’t something significantly bad that happens there in Emma’s history.
@StorybrookeObserver wrote:
THE Doctor? Doctor WHO?
That was the first thing that popped into my mind too. Would make travelling to different worlds possible from SB if the Tardis was parked somewhere in town. 😉 Pretty sure Dr Who is owned by the BBC though, so unlikely they’d be able to use him on Once.
@Marilou wrote:
big ol’ fat theory here… more like shooting arrows in the dark really. In LOST absolutely nothing good came from Tallahassee. people met there and got killed there (or almost killed)
The fact that it’s a Lost reference is the only reason it stuck in my head when Regina said it. 😉 I’d figured it was just a little Lost reference that wouldn’t necessarily be addressed again. Guess I was wrong in that assumption.
You’d think that if there was any guy who was destined to be with Red, the wizard who made the cloak that protects her would be that guy. I never really got the sense that poor Peter was her TRUE love, they were just a young couple who had a brief relationship.
Regarding non-fairytale and/or more real world storybook characters, Kitsis and Horowitz confirmed that the nurse in the hospital dungeon was Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, a book set in a real world mental hospital, which was published in…*googling*…1962. So a character from a science fiction novel from the 1800s certainly wouldn’t be off limits.
Looks like they’re gonna answer Regina’s question about what was so great about Tallahassee. Can’t wait to find out!
