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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#252: Jan 24th 2012 at 12:11:07 PM

No, he didn't dreate the Enchanted Forest, at least, I doubt it. Merely a chronicler.

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WarriorEowyn from Victoria Since: Oct, 2010
#253: Jan 25th 2012 at 9:14:23 AM

Why the heck does he have a typewriter in the modern world? That's what laptops are for.

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#255: Jan 25th 2012 at 10:27:09 AM

no Solitaire.

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Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#256: Jan 25th 2012 at 1:27:39 PM

Why the heck does he have a typewriter in the modern world? That's what laptops are for.

[up]That, more than likely.

The biggest reason why one would use a typewriter over a laptop or something of the like is the lack of other uses for a typewriter... A writer may find themselves not writing, but it sure as hell won't be because they started playing games or surfing the web on the same machine they're supposed to by writing on...

zombielovescore Since: Nov, 2010
#257: Jan 25th 2012 at 3:18:51 PM

If he opened the box and pulled out a laptop, Emma wouldn't have been able to come to the obvious conclusion that he's a writer, and he wouldn't need a mysterious fancy-looking box for a laptop. Sheesh.

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#258: Jan 26th 2012 at 7:50:17 AM

it also adds to the Decade Dissonance that I feel pervades Storybrooke. Semi justified since it's been frozen in some sort of timeloop for 28 years but even so the place feels more like the mid-Fifties than the early Eighties sometimes.

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WarriorEowyn from Victoria Since: Oct, 2010
#259: Jan 26th 2012 at 2:15:19 PM

Mid-50s it wouldn't have a female mayor (or a female sheriff), but the vibe is certainly old-fashioned.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#260: Jan 26th 2012 at 7:08:40 PM

True. Not eberything, more a style thing. But the comic Regina was looking at in the super,arket was from the 80s. Likewise nurse stopped wearing the type of uniform they wear in the hospital in the 90s. So it's at least stuck in the early 80s. Or was. On the other hand the comic Henry was looking at was modern. Wolverine vs The Hulk is an Ultimate Marvel comic. So it's not consistent.

edited 26th Jan '12 7:10:04 PM by tricksterson

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Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#261: Jan 26th 2012 at 10:11:57 PM

[up]Just because Henry has something from the "present" while everything else in town seems to be no later than the 90s, doesn't mean it's not consistent... Henry is the only person(save for the writer, maybe?) who could leave the town... That and the fact that we have no idea what Henry did prior to meeting Emma Swann.

Honestly, I'm really curious as to how much of a truant Henry was prior to leaving to find Emma. If he wasn't one at all, then his entire theory of "no one ever comes to town" is completely off base. Purely on the fact that for at least 6 hours a day, five days a week, he would have no surveillance of the town.

As much as I'd like to think believe such a claim, it just doesn't seem possible that no one has ever come to Storybrooke other than Henry and Emma. Not least because it's really hard for me to imagine that the diner that Ruby works in gets absolutely no supplies from a source outside of Storybrooke(and that's just one store... The mechanic's shop that Hansel/Gretel's father works at gets no supplies either?).

edited 26th Jan '12 10:12:21 PM by Swish

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#262: Jan 27th 2012 at 12:00:13 AM

Regina and Mr Gold both claim that Gold could operate beyond the bounds of the town, so there's that.

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Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#263: Jan 27th 2012 at 1:18:26 AM

[up]Assuming what Henry says is true: Gold knows how to get things into town(specifically, Henry). But that doesn't mean that Gold has ever actually left the town... Even Regina, as mayor, could seemingly have access to information and people outside of the town without ever actually leaving it...

I don't buy it, but it's still plausible.

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#264: Jan 27th 2012 at 8:42:46 AM

Hmm, I think this show is being made up as it goes along.

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#265: Jan 27th 2012 at 2:19:01 PM

[up]Probably at least a bit. I think that's true for most mythologies.

[up]x4 The prevailing theory, which I agree with, is that supplies for, to use your example, Grannies B&B, woouldn't have to be brought in because Storybrooke, before Emma got there existed in some type of time loop with only Henry, Regina and maybe Mr. Gold noticing the passing of time. So the same food, pharmaceuticals, toilet paper etc, kept being automatically replaced. In fact this is prbably how, book aside Henry first noticed something was wrong because he kept getting older and noone else, including his classmates did.

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#266: Jan 27th 2012 at 2:25:26 PM

It's certainly true that nobody was aging other than Henry, and that they were magically prevented from noticing anything odd about that. Not sure if I completely buy the idea of food and things simply replenishing themselves, though.

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#267: Jan 28th 2012 at 9:57:54 AM

Wouldn't be the weirdest thing that's happened in a fairytale.

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#268: Jan 29th 2012 at 5:01:11 PM

Well, I could see that coming from a mile away. It was an obvious setup from the beginning. What happened to Emma being able to tell when someone is lying to her?

Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#269: Jan 29th 2012 at 6:41:44 PM

[up]Watch the episode again. Everything stated was a series of half-truths. With the words being, in essence, true, even if they could be interpreted in a different way...

Why people think that Emma wasn't just playing Henry(and Hansel/Gretel) when she made the comment, I don't know...

As for the fairytale portion: I find it interesting that, for one so adamant about having everyone who enters his kingdom be happy, the King would want Regina to suffer after reading her diary... Dude sort of deserved his death, after that bit of hypocrisy.

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#270: Jan 29th 2012 at 11:12:36 PM

Nice shot of Sidney glowering at the office mirror.

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#271: Jan 30th 2012 at 11:22:43 AM

[up][up]I don't think she has it as a psychic power, I just think she has a good bullshit detector, ala Lie To Me.

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#272: Jan 30th 2012 at 2:22:40 PM

Saw the episode. Was calling the double mole thing as soon as I saw Sydney.

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#273: Jan 30th 2012 at 2:25:37 PM

Would that face lie to you?

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#274: Jan 30th 2012 at 2:26:40 PM

I do like the inclusion of the genie myth. I mean...I guess it's sorta a given, what with disney (nice touch with the shackles), but genies were part of arabic mythology, not grimm mythology.

I'm not complaining though.

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Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
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#275: Jan 30th 2012 at 2:38:07 PM

[up]I dunno... The moment they put King Midas in the picture(who isn't Grimm mythology either), any idea that they wouldn't take tales from all regions seems rather silly...

But, with those additions, I can now hold out hope for Hua Mulan to be present at some point...

edited 30th Jan '12 2:39:16 PM by Swish


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