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Okay, kudos to [livejournal.com profile] masqthephlsphr who figured out that Pan had a much bigger agenda.



[Anyone else getting tired of the hashtag ad at the end ..."@Pan*Never*Fails"? Just me, then. Actually the constant reference to twitter is beginning to annoy me. I find twitter really hard to follow or read. It has all these symbols and address smack in the middle.]

1. Anyhow...Pan's great plan appears to do the curse in Storybrook, so he can turn Storybrook into another Neverland and control it. In short, if he can't have Neverland, fine, he'll take over Henry's body and turn Henry's hometown into Neverland. Not a problem. Pan is a really a piece of work - although he does explain Rumplestilskin. Keep in mind Rumple created the curse in order to get to the land without magic to find his son. Now dear old dad plans on using it to regain his childhood ideal for eternity. Poor Rumple, he has everything he wants right now and his father is about to rip it away from him AGAIN.

2. Emma figured out that Henry wasn't Henry fairly quickly. Mainly because Pan was too busy working Regina to worry about Emma, he also pretty much figured out if he could manipulate Regina into getting him into the fault to get a hold of the curse, the rest would work itself out. He's right about that.

3. I wonder if the reason the Shadow killed the Blue Fairy is she posed some sort of threat to his plan or provided the possibility of aiding Tinkerbell?

4. Hook attempts to flirt with Tink, but Tink is having none of it. She knows he's just killing time until he can get to Emma.

5. Hook is right about one thing - there's no guarantee Emma will let Neal back into her heart. He did hurt her after all (*cough*Tamara*cough*) and is going to have to work on it. (I felt Neal was wandering around a lot with no clear idea of what to do with himself. Hook seemed to have more to do or more purpose. The writing there was a bit off. ) As he put it - I'm in it for the long-haul. You took off on her once before, after all. I can afford to be patient.

6. Speaking of Hook, I love Charming's response to Emma's query.

Emma: Are you sure this isn't just your way to keep me away from Hook?
Charming: How can you think I'm interested in Hook. I'm a married man, after all.
(LOL! The writers appear to be aware of the Captain Charming slash fans and decided to give them a bit of a shout-out. )

7. Rumple is a bit too well-adjusted. He has Belle, he has Baelfire, and he no longer needs his cane. Plus he's willing to do magic without asking for a favor in return. Something has to give.

8. The flashbacks were, I'm sorry, distracting. I'm not overly fond of the Charming flashbacks. (I liked the adventure, just found it to be rather stupid and jarring at times.) I do get why they did it - they emphasized the fact that you need to enjoy the moments and not constantly be living in dread of the next horrible thing. This is actually a nice parallel to Regina's flashback last week - where she takes a potion to let go of her dread and focus on Henry, here Snow and Charming choose to finally, ignore Regina, and focus on a family. Meanwhile in Storybrook they are attempting to convince Emma to more or less do the same thing - but Emma knows she doesn't get days off, she has to be always on.

9. Ah...Ariel got back together with Eric (enjoy it while it lasts...because Pan is about to tear you apart to get his way again. The dude is beyond evil and makes Cora seems rather nice in comparison.)

10. So...what happens to everyone when Pan does the curse, which we know he will? Is it a reset button? God, I hope not. We do not want to relive S1 except with no end in sight.
No, it should do something different. Send everyone back where they came from? But where does Emma go? OR Baelfire? And wouldn't Pan and the Lost Boys be sent somewhere else?
Or do they just lose their memories and get new ones?

I don't know about this latest plot thread...but it's obviously going to be the main story for the Spring. (which means the curse is going to happen, dang it, although they might kill Pan before it does). It could be good, but if it is just repeat of Season 1 except with a twist, I'm going to be annoyed. Just as I'm going to be annoyed if we go back to EVIL!Regina and devolve all the characters. (I can't see them doing that...because that would boring to write.) Also, I'm wondering if they plan on using it as a means of putting Emma and Hook together? OR putting Emma and Neal together? (Not sure where that love triangle is headed. Probably a good thing I like both options at the moment? Although they do need to write Neal and Hook better and please give them something to do other than vie for Emma's affections.
Because I currently like Emma, but if she's stuck in a love triangle for to long - she'll come across as wishy-washy and annoying like her father did in the second season.)

Date: 2013-12-09 04:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com
No fans seem to be mourning the Blue Fairy's passing, but it was so sudden and presented in a scary fashion that it makes me wonder if (1) they will find a way to resurrect her (I am not privy to casting spoilers), if only to give Tink more of a mother-daughter style conflict storyline, which is what I expected to see for her, or (2) next week ought to start off with a funeral in which the characters get all hot under the collar from this, because in not-well-sold canon, they all like the Blue Fairy and consider her a friend.

Date: 2013-12-09 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
They clearly did it for a reason - also why her? Why not one of the many other characters? That's what I've been trying to figure out. Why did Pan send the Shadow after her specifically? I get why he released the Shadow, in order to get Regina to take him to the vault. But why did he choose the Blue Fairy?
Or was it meant to be random?

Probably over-thinking it. Never a good thing with tv shows.

Date: 2013-12-09 09:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com
I don't think it was random at all. I'm pretty sure fairy dust, or something else the Blue Fairy could have done, will be the key to foiling Pan.

The only other explanation is a Meta one, that the actress was leaving the show never to return, so the writers decided to kill off her character for dramatic value. But the writers don't really do very many drama-no-plot-reason deaths (Graham is the only one I can think of), and they very rarely do anything that doesn't have a *specific* plot reason. The show is too tightly plotted for that.

Date: 2013-12-09 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowkat67.livejournal.com
I think you are most likely right and that there's something about the fairy dust that is key to foiling Pan. Also, in the flashback, the reason Rumple's father (PAN) is climbing the tree and stumbles across the Shadow - is that he is attempting to get "pixie dust" in order to be able to fly.

Actually that flashback in the episode where Henry gives his heart to Pan, is packed with information.

* the importance of pixie dust to Pan (required for flying)
* Pan apparently will do anything to get magic
* Rumple was too afraid to climb the try, so Pan did instead (what would have happened if Rumple had climbed it?)
* Pan makes a deal with the Shadow, otherwise he probably would have fallen to his death.

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