7:15 am Questions

[chloris.livejournal.com]

While writing up my review about 7:15 am on my journal, I had some questions and comments about the episode that I thought would be good to post here for discussion.

1. Was that the shortest, most focused storm ever or what? Lots of build-up with the weather report and everyone talking about it and then, eh. David and Mary barely had to take shelter from it before it was over! I wonder how many storms Storybrooke had pre-Emma. Storms can change things (destroy buildings, wash out roads) and nothing could change before. I get the feeling that Storybrooke is much more of the world than it used to be and not just in strangers visiting.

2. Regina reads Fantastic Four? Or was she just hiding behind it as she did her daily 'spy on Mary Margaret' routine?

3. We have a new rule of magic! Previously: all curses can be broken no matter how powerful they are, all magic has a price, and no bringing anyone back from the dead. Now we know that magic can't make anyone love you. Once again Rumpel is very clear on what he can and cannot do. The question is, what did he want with her hair and how is that going to come back and bite her? This scene also makes it even more obvious that Ella's deal was different from all the rest we've seen.

4. So the box contains a typewriter and, not just a typewriter, a REALLY OLD typewriter. Hmmmm. Is he just pretentious or does this particular typewriter have some significance? And what is his connection to the town? Theories I've heard - Rumpel's son, a member of the Grimm family, a connection to another chronicler of fairytales (such as Hans Christian Andersen), the writer of Henry's book, someone Mr. Gold called into town, the Big Bad Wolf, the boy who found Emma? (Many of these are not mutually exclusive so it could be a combo.) Or someone else entirely? And how meta is he going to be?

He does say (What's in the box is) something I need to do what I came here for. and I find this place provides inspiration.

5. What did Snow do for Red that no one else would? Help with the Wolf perhaps? And, is it just me, or did Red look particularly lovely in the flashback scenes?

6. Another dwarf! That does explain why they had room in their house for her. It's too bad he didn't quite live up to his name. *sniff* I do hope we see more of him in older, dwarf-centric flashbacks.

7. We seriously need some more Abigail so we can understand what she wants, since we know it isn't Charming anymore than he wants her. By the way, King Uncharming is seriously pushy. It's not enough that he go through with the wedding, no his HEART needs to be in it. Which is amusing since the king is just about as down on love as Rumpel.

8. And that's another thing I'm wondering. Was Rumpel's speech about the destructiveness of love all manipulation to get Snow to make a deal, or about his (dead? lost?) wife and son, or does he have a post-Dark One romance that ends badly?

9. Oooh! One more thing! Mary and David finally give into their passion right in front of the Storybrooke Real Estate Office and that has me thinking about the curse. Since nothing could change, no one could move or change jobs, and, therefore, the real estate agent could NEVER sell a house. (As far as we know.) But they also couldn't get any richer or poorer (since that would be a change), so how did they make money? Side business like the diner/bar and the B&B? Or did their bank account magically reset itself each month? If that's the case it must have been REALLY annoying for Mr. Gold. *g* Unless he had regular outside contacts and could make money and deals that way.

I think that's enough for now. Anyone have any ideas? Questions of their own?

Comments

[idle-curiosity.livejournal.com]

This is my reincarnation idea. If it's true, I love the idea of it happening right away, instead of somewhere down the line. But, if Graham can die by Regina squeezing hm to death, I suppose he could come back, lol.

There are so many things ...

The Stranger's rather striking resemblance to Graham … older, rougher around the edges, but similar in dress and appearance. He has the bearing of a predator, edgy, dangerous (Huntsman, much?). He seems completely sure of himself, and as if he carries a secret that amuses him. He gives Emma the once over, as if somehow knows her.

He is an outsider, and outsiders never come to Storybrooke, other than Henry and Emma. The Stranger – if he is a reincarnation of Graham – could enter Storybrooke either because he was killed, and the laws of the borders don’t apply to him anymore, or he would have free access by virtue of the fact that he is/was a citizen of Storybrooke himself all this time.

He didn’t give Emma his name, just like he hadn’t given the Evil Queen his name when she asked him in FTL. And – this is all just me – I swear that there was the teeniest, tiniest bit of an Irish lilt to the way he told Emma “That’s because I didn’t give it.”

Graham’s jacket hanging up in the Sheriff’s office again, and Mr. Gold telling Emma that he thought she might want to have it anyway, after she’d told him she didn’t want it. This is one of my favorites. Mr. Gold doesn't box it up and have it delivered to her house, or put it in a bag on her desk ... he hangs the jacket up in the office. Absolutely freaky.

Regina is alarmed by the fact that an outsider has managed to find his way into Storybrooke, because the magic of the boundaries didn’t work on him? She says there's something familiar about him.

The Stranger is sitting in the diner, drinking coffee, when Emma confronts him much as she confronted Graham in an earlier episode when she thought that he’d bought her hot chocolate. Ah, deja vu.

Graham had bribed Emma with a box of donuts, telling her that the cliches were sometimes true. When Emma confronts him, asks him what he's doing there, he tells her that he's drinking coffee. She says that she thinks he's suspicious. He says something to the effect that he wonders what hell would have been unleashed if he'd ordered a donut. He uses the cliche of her being a sheriff (cop) and donuts.

The box, with the old, vintage typewriter (like something found in a pawnshop). He's a writer, why doesn't the man have a laptop, lol? Nobody uses a typewriter anymore. Is he old school?

Back to the beginning of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter episode ... Emma's outside, stalking away, basically telling him she doesn't care about his private life and he says "If that were true you'd be sitting with me at the bar, having a drink." Did he ask if he could buy her a drink? No, but it seems it was on his mind as something he wanted to do. Now, The Stranger tells her that he won't show her what's in the box, and she'll wonder and the mystery will eat at her. Or, he'll let her know what's in the box if she lets him buy her a drink. "You want to buy me a drink?" "Yes." Oh, his face.

He baited her with the box, and got what he wanted.

Is he a writer? Maybe. He says he is.

Two minutes of remembering his life, getting to kiss the girl, and Regina squeezes him to death. That's his happy ending that Emma brings?

And Mr. Gold’s “gardening” – what’s up with that? That shovel …

Of course, it's all speculation, but it's so much fun.

[chloris.livejournal.com]

Those are a lot of connections! Of course, now I'm taking all your speculation and wondering if the Stranger is the Huntsman's son. *g* We only know a few days of his life pre-Evil Queen. There could have been a girl.