Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170910030941

So we know Season 7 will be a reboot/sequel to the previous Seasons 1-6 (plus the Wonderland spinoff). Because of this, some elements of the story are going to repeat themselves. For example Henry is the new Emma, Lucy is the new Henry, we will have a new cursed town, new cursed persona, etc. We also know we are going to have a new Enchanted Forest, and with that new versions of some characters we have already had, including Cinderella, Lady Tremaine, Alice, and Rapunzel. While these characters will be somewhat different, they still will have to have similarities, because we still need to be able to recognize them as the iconic characters they are. With so many similarities in this season, I was wondering how people think the season will make itself unique. I have a few theories, but please share your own as well.

Lady Tremaine is Rapunzel - This has been talked about on several other threads, so I won't go into great detail, but I believe this would be a great twist, and a way to make Tremaine/Rapunzel very different from the past versions. Besides that, we haven't had many "polarity" flips on characters. Best example I can think of is Jack and the Giant, where Jack was bad (as well as being genderbent) and the Giant was good. Having Rapunzel turn into a villain would be very interesting to see.

Sunlight and Garden themes - I've noticed alot of references to these in this season already. Hyperion is the Titan of Light, Lucy means light, and a drop of sunlight is what makes the magical flower in Disney's Tangled (which it seems this season's version of Rapunzel will pull from). As for the garden, all the confirmed stories so far seem linked to a garden in some way. Cinderella goes into the garden to cry about not going to the ball, in many versions of the story, sometimes even going to a tree that was planted in rememberance of her mother; Rapunzel is taken because her parents steal a plant from the witch's garden; The entirity of Wonderland is basically a giant garden; and finally, the prince in The Frog Prince is often found in a garden pond or near a well. Also of note, Jacinda is trying to make a community garden in Hyperion Heights, and serveral of the cursed names refer to flowers or plants. Overall, I think Sunlight and Gardens will be a recurring theme this season.

So tell me what you think, and also what theories you have about how the season will be unique! 