Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.234.32.246-20130412202735/@comment-5355525-20130428191113

This has always bothered me as well. Conversations just after the Pilot episode varied from many wild ideas back then because we knew very little at that point. Several episodes later we would meet Graham's wolf guide, or friend, as Henry would call him. This particular wolf was different from the wolf in the pilot episode as he had different colored eyes, one red and one black, and those colors remained consistant throughout the series, leaving us to believe that they were in fact two different wolves,... but why?

We all know that Emma had escaped the Dark Curse from birth, as did Henry. So that first night that Emma attempted to leave Storybrooke, we know the Dark Curse had no hold over her at all. So the wolf that appeared in the road, to keep her from leaving, may have been the work of "Fate". Fate was one of the original wild ideas that was passed around at that time, but was so thin then, that most excused it off as uneventful, or lacking luster within this stoyrline.

Since the last few episodes, it's become more and more clearer that there is and was another element at work "IN and OUT" of Storybrooke,... fate. It has always been hinted to us in the subtext. But not until "Manhattan" did the subtext become a full fledged character.

The seer tells us about future things that will be and future things that could be, suggesting the work of fate. Neal makes fate  a complete character when he introduces it to Emma as a reason for their meeting, even though he knew nothing of Henry's existence. He says that there are no coincidences. "Something good had to have come out of our meeting", he tells Emma, who lies to him and responds "No,.. I just went to jail"

We now know that Rumple could see much, but not all, as he tells Regina the truth about him being just as surprised as she, when he found out Bae' was Henry's father. Mr.Gold then uses the term "Fate" to explain Henry's father being Baelfire.

So when I look back on that first wolf in the Pilot episode, I'm compelled to believe that it was the writers giving us our first look at "Fate", and the third element, along side good and evil, at work in Storybrooke,..... and yes there was a full moon that night as they were in Wolf's Time Day 1 when Emma tried to leave Storybrooke that first night.