[theoniongirl]

Spoilers for after “The Return:”

I've liked August, but I was a bit … chilled … by how he played Rumple in this episode. Calling him “Papa,” letting him believe he was Bae … It was heartwretching. I defnitely had to feel for Rumple, even with some of the horrible acts he committed in this episode.
But then I was thinking about it. If August is, indeed, Pinocchio (and I'm operating under that assumption) he hasn't been able to see/talk to his own beloved father in 28 years because of something Rumple did (giving Regina the curse). No, August isn't going to be predisposed to like Rumple. Not at all.

[theoniongirl]

There is defnitely something interesting about her. I have this uneasy feeling that the Blue Fairy isn’t on the side of the angels, as it were … not necessarily that she’s evil, but she’s rather thoroughly on her own side. And that’s not the side of mankind.

She did orchestrate an awful lot of things, didn’t she … in a way, she made it necessary for Rumple to come up with the curse. And then possible for Emma to escape that curse. I wonder if she’s pulling strings toward an end we cannot (yet) see …

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

That’s very interesting. I wonder what this …

There’s a clue very early on in one of his first scenes that points in the direction of what they had in mind.

… means. 😉

I think there’s even more rewatching in my future.

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

Gonna make a leap. Someone already callled that August is Pinocchio. I hearby call that by coming to Storybrooke, he started a process that involves him returning to the wood from which he was made … in one way or another.

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

I worry that the reason Emma is considering leaving Storybrooke is that August is dead. 😯

Or here’s a thought: That he comes right out and either tells her he’s a character in FTL (“Yeah, sure you’re Pinocchio …” :lol:) or just brings his attempt to convince her right out in the open, so much so that she can’t handle it.

I have a little theory that he is Pinocchio, but coming to Storybrooke made him start turning back into wood (hence, shin splints). And now he has a deadline to convince Emma. Maybe in “The Stranger,” he tells her, she rebuffs him and … he turns back into wood, albeit not in her presence, so as far as she knows, this crazy guy (for whom perhaps she had started to care …) has just up and vanished.

Or maybe he's somehow the tree that's been shown in the look ahead for the finale.
(I don’t know if spoiler tags are necessary in this section if it’s a spoiler for a different episode … but decided to err on the side of caution.)

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

Last night, I rewatched the scene in “Red-Handed” with August in the diner, trying to see if his nose twitched (grew?) at all. 😉

I’m crazy. But it’s a FUN crazy. 😀 😀 😀

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

That’s true! I was only kidding because I tend toward out-there theories and I thought that was out there ever for me! 😀

You’re exactly right; there may have been lemurs in Nepal … a long, LONG time ago.

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

Yeah. I just looked up lemurs on Wikipedia. 😎 🙄 I hear you.

Funny, it says that lemurs arrived in Madagascar a looooong time ago by effectively rafting on dried vegetation. (I love that image. 😆 ) So maybe August is just really, really old? And once upon a time (hehe) there were lemurs in Nepal?

I’m mostly kidding. 😎 Mostly.

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

May I be keeper of the Storybrooke Daily Mirror … as it should be? I’m tired of Sidney Glass dragging my profession through the mud! 😀 There is a journalistic code of ethics, after all! (Tsk …)

Any real newspaper worth its salt (so to speak) would have done an expose on Regina years ago. 😉 Being told not to write about something just makes most reporters more dedicated to doing so.

(Heehee … what fairy tale character would make a good reporter? Surely Sidney doesn’t put that whole paper out on his own!)

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

[theoniongirl]

Even if it turns out to be that, it’s always possible they do it in such a cool way that we’re all blown away anyway … even those who saw it coming episodes ago. 😀

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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas

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