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I’m thinking that that other quote is a paraphrased version of the answers she gives in the interview that’s on this page: http://blogcritics.org/video/article/in-the-comic-con-2012-pressroom/page-2/ Not quite exactly word for word, but closer than the previously posted quote:

Do you think that Belle will try to change Rumple’s dark ways?

I don’t think she assumes she’ll be able to create a completely different person out of this guy who obviously has a lot of troubles, shall we say. But I think more to the point of actually bringing out the light side of him, and the side that is there that has just been hidden away. She believes she can do that, and hopefully she can.

Will she change to be a darker person?

Who you’re with and who you spend time with obviously affects who you are as a person too, so I’d imagine there’s going to be a certain amount of balance brought back to her maybe, of um, not a dark side maybe, but a side that’s a little less “Belle predictable”, maybe not as optimistic as she usually is about life.

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So I guess we’re probably getting Sleeping Beauty in ep 1? Kind of fitting really, considering everyone in Storybrooke just woke up.

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Emilie: “Belle will likely not try to change Rumple, but bring out the lightness in him – the part only she seems to know exists within him.

So basically…she’ll try to change him. LOL 😉

I get what she’s saying though, and it’ll be good for his character development to have her around to remind him that he’s not all bad. I guess maybe she’ll be like his conscience, in a way. But she won’t be all sweetness and light because she’s got her own demons to deal with.

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Awesome! Looking forward to seeing more of the history between Snow and Regina. I need to see more of their relationship before I can feel any real sympathy for Regina. Like pretty much everyone else, I was all, “She’s just a kid who was manipulated by your mother into coughing up the info, cut her some slack!” I need to see more of how they interacted after that, and see the growing animosity that Regina had for her, before I can begin to see it from Regina’s side and appreciate why her hatred was so consuming and long lasting.

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Since first reading that first interview the other day, I’ve been thinking about what they said about magic:

Magic is coming to Storybrooke. Is next season about the battle for the most magic, especially between the Evil Queen and Rumpelstiltskin?
Edward Kitsis: [It’s about] why you need it. So, I look at magic more of a currency than an object to fight over. It’s why do you need money? Do you need money to buy a house? Do you need money to get something you want? I would say that magic, in a lot of ways, comes with a price. Why do you need and what price are you willing to pay for it?
Adam Horowitz: Also, that was one of the themes of Season 1, which is magic has a price. In Season 2, it is, what does that price mean in our world?

Because magic has a price, does this mean everyone is in danger now?
Kitsis: When you see the fairy-tale flashbacks, there is magic but there are people who don’t use it. … Not everyone is a practitioner of it, but everyone is used to living in it. But if I have just woken up after a 28-year sleep and I realize that magic’s back, I would also start to worry. “Oh no, is the queen and Rumpel going to start doing it again? Are we going to be in the middle? What scores still need to be settled?”

Will we be surprised by certain people who are able to wield magic, like maybe Emma?
Kitsis: That’s an excellent question. I would respond with a question. The question is: Can anyone learn magic or does it have to be something inside you?

I’m totally intrigued by how magic is gonna work in Storybrooke. Will the people who had it automatically get those same powers back? Or will they have to re-learn it? And will people who didn’t use it before, be able to get hold of it and use it now? The way they liken it to a currency, sort of sounds like it’s something that everyone will have access to, doesn’t it? I’m thinking like a scenario kind of like in a video game, where all the additional powers/ammo you need are there for the taking, you just need to know where to look and how to get it so then you can use it. So everyone starts on an even playing field, and it’s a matter of who knows how to acquire and use the tools available to play the game to their best advantage.

Or maybe it’ll be more simple than that and the same people will get their same powers back and then the non-magical people will need to align themselves with a certain side in order to get what they need. But I’d been pondering that other idea for a couple of days now, so just had to put it out there.

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@malchore wrote:

But in season 2, why would the clock be stopped? Just because we saw it covered in purple smoke doesn’t mean it’ll be stopped. I think in the opening scene of S2E1 we’ll see the clock move to 8:16.

That’s what I’m thinking too. I don’t think it necessarily STOPPED again, they just showed it ticking to 8:15 as the smoke rolled in, coz it was a fun little full circle sort of moment.

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I’m just not sure how August and Jefferson could have known each other for any length of time. They certainly didn’t know each other in their previous lives because Jefferson was preoccupied losing his mind in Wonderland and Pinocchio was a child in FTL. And there hasn’t been anything to indicate that August had ever been to Storybrooke before, or had any contact with the town, has there? So I can’t really see them being friends, or either of them having had contact with Bae at any point, (Jefferson lived centuries after Bae was long gone from FTL, then was trapped in Storybrooke, and August showed no interest in his former life or the people associated with it, until he came to Storybrooke).

What would make sense to me is if August, after coming to Storybrooke and investigating the inhabitants a bit, figured out that Jefferson remembered. So he went to him in the hopes he’d help with getting Emma to believe.

In the ep before Hat Trick, we saw August telling Henry that Emma needs proof instead of going on faith. Then we see Jefferson trying to force some proof onto her. It’d make sense if August had gone to Jefferson before the events of Hat Trick, introduced himself as someone else who remembered, told him they needed to get Emma to believe, and that’s why the Hat Trick events happened. In that case, the cut scene would have been August coming to check how their plans were going, but it’s not like anything is lost from the storyline of the ep by not having that scene in there.

Jefferson’s expression could be explained if August wasn’t aware that he’d gone ahead and kidnapped people without discussing it with him first, so Jefferson was eager to get him to leave before he found out what was going on. But Jefferson was acting pretty upset during most of the ep, so that expression could also just be because of that, and August checking up on him was the last thing he needed at that point in time.

If August had already been to Jefferson, and knew that his plan had failed, that goes to show why he was getting so desperate that he went and impersonated Bae after that.

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@Josephine wrote:

I could see him just sitting there with his hand on his cane’s handle and saying nothing but “I’m a difficult man to love, dearie.”

Brilliant!! 😆

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@slurpeez108 wrote:

If it weren’t for Rumpel, there would never have been an OUAT story to tell at all, because there never would have been a curse to defeat.

Yeah, that. More than any other character, this show is Rumple’s story IMO. His history, which motivated him to create the curse, and how he used everyone else to set it in motion so that eventually he can achieve his ultimate goal. Without all of that, there’d be no need for us to be seeing ANY of their stories, so without his own personal story, there’d be no show.

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Thanks for the links.

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