Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20150323054138

As we now know after watching "Poor Unfortunate Soul", and from spoilers about "Heart Of Gold", the only two recasts the show has ever done (Ursula and Robin Hood) have/will be explained.

Merrin Dungey's Ursula is named after Yvette Nicole Brown's Ursula, instead of actually being the same character. While Tom Ellis' Robin Hood is going to be the same as Sean Maguire's Robin Hood, but there will be an explanation for it (most likely a glamour spell.)

But while characters have been recast, only one actress has played multiple roles: Yvette Nicole Brown, who portrayed the Goddess Ursula and Goldie Locksley, one of the hosts of the quasi-canon "Good Morning Storybrooke" (I say quasi because we've never had official confirmation, nor has it ever been debunked or contradicted anything in the actual canon.)

So my theory is that if GMS is in fact canon, that Ursula has hidden herself away from humans in Storybrooke as Goldie, who is obviously meant to be Goldilocks. Perhaps Ursula even has some of her story in her own. This is probably the dumbest theory ever, but I wouldn't put it past A&E. 