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Once Upon a Fan UK is reporting that the Nave of Hearts is back on set.

Looks like we are heading back to Wonderland this season. Paul McGillion, who played the Queen of Heart’s official speaker, tweeted that he was excited to be back on set again.

Now about those Cora theories! 🙂

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I think Cora’s goal is to get to SB to enact revenge on Regina and Rumpel for pushing her into the looking glass and unleashing the dark curse. She may use whatever leftover magic is in the ashes of the wardrobe to enchant another object to become a make-shift portal.

In their latest podcast episode, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis said that the ashes are from a wardrobe fashioned out of the last known enchanted tree which contains the strongest of all good magic–magic powerful enough to make a portal between worlds. Eddy said there is a reason the ashes sparkled.

"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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Phee wrote:Wonder if she can only shape shift into someone she’s killed…or someone’s heart she’s stolen?

Wow, great theory! I hope there’s a limit to her ability to shape-shift into just anyone. Hopefully, it’s as you suggested.

I really hope Cora doesn’t masscarade as Daniel's ghost. I think she'll still be stuck in the EF in 2×5, so hopefully she can't just show up in SB quite yet.

"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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Here is the more complete synopsis for 2×5:

ONCE UPON A TIME – “The Doctor” – While Regina continues to try and stop using her magic in an attempt to win back Henry’s affections, she begins seeing what she believes is a ghost from her past; and when Mary Margaret and Emma discover a lone survivor from an ogre massacre, Emma begins to question whether or not he’s telling the truth. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Regina finds herself failing at learning the dark arts from a dark master because something from her past is preventing her from using her magic for evil, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28

Based on the promotional stills just released (posted in the “filming shots” thread), Killian Jones is definitely the “lone survivor from an ogre massacre” and he looks pretty frazzled. It also appears like all the other refugees were killed. Maybe Killian will lie about his true identity, but it looks like Snow finds his hook, which is a pretty clear give-away to who he really is: Captain 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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Official stills for 2×5 The Doctor:

I think that Captain Hook is the survivor of the ogre massacre, and sadly, I think the haven was burned to the ground and the rest of the refugees were killed.

Also, here are some BTS shots of Jefferson, young Regina and Rumpel:

It appears Jefferson wasn’t be quite so forthcoming with Charming or Henry when he said magic wasn’t really his thing.

"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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I just remembered that Emma did meet August before he came to SB! He was the 7-year-old boy, Pinocchio, who brought baby Emma from the magical tree portal to the local diner in Maine. Pinocchio then left Emma in the foster home in what looked like Boston to run away with the group of children who stole money for bus-fare. What if Pinocchio and Baelfire met much earlier than we were supposing? They could have been part of the same group of “Lost Boys” who were on the run and constantly going different places. August/Pinocchio said he eventually ended up on the other side of the world as an adult, and that’s where he was when Emma decided to stay in SB and he got the “painful reminder” that he hadn’t been there for her. Yet, I’ve been wondering how August knew his pain corresponded with when she decided to stay, and not say, when she first arrived.

Ok, crackpot theory: Perhaps August told “Neal” about Emma’s true fairytale identity as the savior who’d break the curse, and it was part of some bigger plan for her to have a kid with “Neal” so she’d eventually break the curse. It’d be such a huge twist if “Neal” (aka Baelfire) has been working all along with August to break the curse! Maybe August and “Neal” made sure baby Henry came all the way form Phoenix, Arizona to Storybrooke, Maine, and they contacted Mr. Gold about a child for Regina. At the time, Mr. Gold didn’t remember he was Rumpelstiltskin, because it wasn’t until he heard Emma say her name that he got his true FTL memories back. That would also explain why August might’ve sent the postcard to “Neal” with the word “broken” written on it; it was a way of saying mission accomplished, Emma broke the curse, now come to SB. I imagine he may have a thing or two to say to his father. Also, if Rumpel cannot leave town to find Bae, Bae might just find him.

"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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My jaw just hit the floor; I can’t believe they released the mysterious man’s name before the episode airs!

In real life, Neal Cassady “served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road.” That’s a classic bad-boy image right there. If anyone saw the recent film by the same name, you’ll get an instant idea of what is meant by the “Beat Generation.”

Although Cassady did not attend Columbia, he soon became friends with them and their acquaintances, some of whom later became members of the Beat Generation.

“Beatnik” is a word used to describe someone who is part of a nonconformist youth-culture that was an undercurrent in America in the 1950s and 1960s. A beatnik stereotype is one of sitting in a cafe, drinking coffee, playing the bongos and reciting poetry.

In October 1945, after being released from prison, [Cassady] married the fifteen-year-old LuAnne Henderson.

This seems to support the idea that fictional “Neal” is going to propose to a teenaged Emma, based on the episode description about a fellow thief wanting to make an honest woman out of her.

After Cassady’s marriage to LuAnne Henderson was annulled, Cassady married Carolyn on April 1, 1948. The couple eventually had three children and settled down in a ranch house in Monte Sereno, California, 50 miles south of San Francisco, where Kerouac and Ginsberg sometimes visited.[6] In 1950 he entered into a bigamous marriage with Diane Hansen, with whom he fathered one son, Curtis Hansen.

This makes me wonder if Emma actually was married to Henry’s father for a brief period, before having the marriage annulled. Perhaps he ended up married to someone else, but had an affair with Emma later on after she got out of jail. It’ll depend on how much the writers want to draw from Cassady’s real life as inspiration for Emma Swan’s and “Neal’s” lives.

AntBee wrote: I just had another thought. This is probably a good clue that August and Neal have to be connected then because they’re both obvious aliases based on famous literary figures.

I like that idea a lot! If August and Neal were friends who both like literature, it’d explain a lot. Perhaps Pinocchio chose August Wayne Booth as his pen name, since it’s an allusion to the literary critic Wayne Booth. Similary, Baelfire might’ve chosen the name Neal Cassady because he liked the book On the Road. My only question is why Emma never met August before he came to SB, since she obviously knew “Neal” and had a child with him. Maybe “Neal” met August after Emma was already out of the picture, which is when Baelfire realized August is actually Pinocchio from FTL, just like him.

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Nice! Now that we have our giant, I hope we’ll get our Jack. Although, I have a feeling the writers will purposefully omit Jack from the story to leave us guessing about who he is and what happened to him. Perhaps Baelfire is Jack, or perhaps Jack grew up to be Captain Hook, which is how he knows to climb up the magic beanstalk to get a magical compass.

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so at :22 on my US promo, there is a picture of young Regina and young Jefferson looking at something that either scares or surprises them.

I think that’s a brief glimpse of 2×5. Jefferson, Regina and (Dr. Whale's FTL counterpart) are also seen wearing those clothes in the 2×2 promo mash-up, which has clips from the first five episodes of S2.

lso before that there is a glimpse of Belle turning around in a mine car. Wondering if that is in the new mine the dwarves have opened in SB, or in FTL?

I’m thinking that it’s the mine in SB, which has been recently opened according to official picture stills for 2×4 and the episode synopsis.

"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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Phee wrote: Random pondering: could the Giant be an ogre? Could that be why they’re introducing ogres at this point? And then releasing a pic of Jorge as the Giant the day after the ep with the ogres airs.

I loved in 2×3 when Emma said, “Ogres? As in ‘fee-fi-fo-fum?” and Snow replied, “No, those are giants.” 🙂

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