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Once Upon a Time Midseason Finale Post Mortem: Burning Questions Answered!
http://tvline.com/2012/12/02/once-upon-a-time-midseason-finale-recap-burning-questions/2/

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@EvilQueen wrote:

But it doesn’t add up. If she is a product of true love, wouldn’t all of the kids of true loves have this power?

Yeah, you’d think so. Maybe all children born of true love have the potential for magic. It seems like all the Charmings come from true love though, so you’d think it runs in the family. Maybe it does, and we’ve only just scratched the surface. David’s parents had true love, as did Snow’s parents. Neal and Emma seemed to really love one another, so Henry is also the product of true love. Maybe what sets Emma apart is that Snow White drank the water of Lake Nostos, so that Emma somehow inherited the water’s magical properties in addition to being the product of true love.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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Favorite moment: Emma deflected Cora’s dark magic, allowing Snow and Emma to come home through the portal.
Least-favorite moment: Mr. Gold would’ve just let Emma and Snow die.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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@AntBee wrote:

Mmm, so I guess I must finally accept that it’s dead well at least in the form of Emma and Snow really being Hook and Cora.

For the time being though, I will not give up the theory that Cora will impersonate someone to get Regina to look bad especially after reading this.

4. Regina will find redemption by helping those with whom she generally wants nothing to do.“This entire second season, up until Episode 12, probably, she will do the right thing. Not everyone will believe her– not everyone will believe her efforts—but she is genuinely trying to do the right thing, and I love her for that,” Parrilla said.

I think Cora will do something that really sets Regina back, but maybe she doesn’t know that it’s Cora or that she knows that it’s Cora but no one believes her.

Thanks for sharing that really interesting article! I personally would be really happy to see legit Snow and Emma return to SB, since I think that storyline has gone on long enough. However, I agree that it’s likely Cora will impersonate someone in town since I think there’s a reason beyond 2×3 for introducing Cora’s ability to shape-shift. I think it’s likely that Cora will impersonate Archie, based on the title The Cricket Game for 2×10. She could wreak havoc posing as the town shrink and giving advice to Regina, who’s a recovering magic junkie with mommy issues. I could see Cora as Archie messing with Regina’s already troubled mind. 😕

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I’m now wondering if the stuff on Hook’s ship may be in a flashback. We haven’t seen any suggestion that he has his ship in present day FTL. If we’re gonna see FTL Regina – who may be Regina, or may be shapeshifting Cora – that must mean we’re going into FTL past, and I’m wondering if that may be around the time when Cora and Hook met, and possibly he helped her to kidnap Henry Sr. If so, then perhaps that’s when they were travelling around on his ship together, and the ship has nothing to do with present day portal jumping after all.

Admittedly, that could be the case, and Hook and Cora may’ve just been aboard his ship in a flash-back. I just would love to see Captain Hook’s ship become a make-shift flying portal to SB, enchanted by pixie dust and happy thoughts of Hook’s revenge. If it worked for Peter Pan, then it could happen for dear old Hook.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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@frumpybutsupersmart wrote:

2) As far as overthrowing King George, most of the population of George’s country probably supported Charming. They didn’t know he wasn’t the “rightful” heir to the throne – they’d just seen the prince not marry Midas’ daughter (who subsequently married someone else) and King George go nuts and start hunting his own son. It wouldn’t have been hard to convince the mass population to follow Charming, seeing as they all thought he was the rightful heir anyway; and he’s pleasant, good in battle, good-looking, and had a wife who was the most kind and beautiful woman in all the lands. Then, once they’d overthrown Regina, they could form a bigger, wealthier nation by the marriage of Snow and Charming.

That all makes sense. In 1×21, it looked like Regina and King George knew each other quite well when Regina offered a far worse punishment for Prince Charming was to put Snow White under the sleeping curse. As neighboring monarchs with the mutual interest of destroying Charming and Snow for good, George and Regina probably allied together in war against Snow and Charming. Being beloved by the people in both kingdoms, however, Snow and Charming could’ve rallied a massive enough army to destroy George’s and Regina’s forces, thereby winning the rights to both kingdoms on the battlefield and joining their kingdoms by their marriage. Perhaps Snow and Charming decided to move into George’s castle after their victory for its excellent view.

Also, Regina never had a rightful claim to Leopold’s throne anyway, since Snow was the legitimate queen of her father’s kingdom and Regina commissioned her husband’s murder. When a king dies, his wife does not inherit his throne, but rather, his eldest son does when he comes of age. In this case, Leopold had only one child, a daughter, so Snow became the rightful heir to the throne, not her step-mother. Also, though Prince Charming wasn’t born a royal, his marriage made him so, thereby making it a moot point whether his people knew of his true humble origins. Charming became a legitimate royal known as a prince concort by his marriage to Snow White, the rightful queen by birth. As a side note, that also means that Emma would inherit her mother’s throne, and not Charming, if Snow were to die first, since the crown passes to the eldest heir of the next generation, not the spouse.

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Because it saves him excess trauma if he doesn’t have to go there with the mission to pass on information. And yes, as you say, if Henry now fell asleep, and ran into Charming in the netherworld, he’d try to talk to him and probably get injured again. Charming didn’t consider that possibility when he went under though, because he didn’t expect to be staying under, he expected to kiss Snow and wake up. The way his plan was supposed to work, he’d only be knocked out for maybe an hour or so, just long enough to run into Snow and have a chat. I’d love it if Henry puts it together and realises he can go check on Charming by falling asleep himself, but who knows if they’ll fit that into the storyline.

I suppose that makes sense that Charming wanted to spare Henry from the excess flames when communicating with Aurora. Yet, Charming was putting all of his eggs in one basket, not thinking through all possible outcomes. He was counting on that “soul kiss” between him and Snow to wake him right back up. As I wrote in that other thread on the same issue, Charming really needs to work on his long-tem strategy. His going to the netherworld to protect Henry wasn’t an effective long-term strategy, because as soon as Henry goes to sleep, Henry is going to come looking for his grandpa. Charming’s faith sort of blinded him from considering that plan my fail, in which case, it would’ve been for naught if protecting Henry was his only aim. Charming risked leaving Henry a de-facto orphan again without any of his blood relatives, whom Henry worked so hard to free from the dark curse. Now, Henry is left with Regina, who though a loving mother, is unstable and not yet fully recovered from using magic, especially with the prospect of Cora’s return looming. While Charming was concerned for Henry’s safety, his deeper goal was to talk to his beloved wife again, because he felt the need to know for himself that she was alive and well. Charming needs to learn some stronger parenting skills and to think strategically about Henry’s welfare in the long run.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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@Elle wrote:

@steliokontos1 In the promo, we see that Captain Hook and Regina met. she could have taught him.

It could be that he will be tempted to kill Belle the same way Rumpelstiltskin killed Milah.

Good point, since Regina said she could help Hook kill Rumple, she may’ve been to one to teach Hook the dark magic of taking a heart. Perhaps magic is not just an ability you’re born with, but one you can learn.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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Barbara Hershey Reveals Cora’s Softer Side
http://www.etonline.com/tv/127577_Barbara_Hershey_Talks_Once_Upon_A_Time_Season_Two_Winter_Finale/index.html

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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@Marilou wrote:

and I read somewhere on tumblr that archie diesis it true? I could not find the source or anything else pointing to that.

I haven’t read anything to confirm that idea; it’s just pure fan speculation at this point.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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We know from 1×6 that King George isn’t David/Prince Charming’s real father, so Charming isn’t even really a prince by birth. Charming and his twin brother, James, were born the children of peasants. It was only because King George and his wife couldn’t conceive a child that George made a deal with Rumplesitlskin to adopt a child, who was James, Charming’s identical twin brother. We know that James was killed in battle and that Rumple then convinced Prince Charming to take his brother’s place and to pretend to be King George’s heir. While there might be some similarities to the Arthurian legend, I don’t think David/Charming is Arthur.

Also, we know from 2×3 that Lancelot is a former knight of the round table who fell from grace over a woman (presumably for having an affair with Arthur’s wife, Guinevere). Stripped of his title, Lancelot eventually became as a sword-for-hire who was contracted by King George to capture Prince Charming and Snow White. David/Charming can’t be Arthur because he’d only just met Lancelot in that episode, and by then, Lancelot was already a disgraced member of the round table, and we know Lancelot didn’t have an affair with Charming’s wife, Snow White. Sequentially, it doesn’t add up.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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Lana Parrilla just gave an interview about the winter finale, which is really interesting.

But there’s a Catch-22 of sorts in that Henry wants her help to get Snow and Emma back, but in doing so, she would need to use magic to find them. Is that something we’ll see her faced with?
Parrilla: Yes, you will see she desperately doesn’t want to use magic because she knows Henry doesn’t want her to. But right, it is a Catch-22. She’s stuck in the middle. What does she do? She needs to find a way to bring Emma and Mary Margaret back. The only way to do so is through magic. But does she have to do it or could she get someone else to do it? I think that that’s something we’ll see. We’ll explore that maybe it doesn’t necessarily have to be her.
http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/tv/tvguide/article/Once-Upon-a-Time-s-Lana-Parrilla-Dissects-the-4082325.php

So, maybe Mr. Gold is actually the one to rescue Emma and Snow White.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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