Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-11464223-20140331174637/@comment-1916997-20140403123216

Hmcooper4 wrote: I can see the logic of Walsh being the wizard. But, I would also say be cautious of dismissing apparantly 'random' characters, because the writers on this show are actually better than some give them credit. Sometimes the littlest things in one episode result in larger stories down the road. For example, in Season 1, Regina casually comments along the lines of 'What was so special about Talahassee?', and in Season 2, we find out that it has to do with Emma and Neal (and eventually Henry). I don't think it was an accident, any more than it was an accident that Henry's book flipped open to a page with flying monkeys in the Pilot. There is ususally nothing that is of random and little importance.

There may be more significance to the Woodsman than meets the eye (just as there was more to Walsh than was readily obvious.  We all suspected, but quite honestly, him turning into a Flying Monkey was a bit of a eye-opener). And I could make an argument that Lumiere is the Wizard. (One of shots of the witch-fight at the Storybrooke corral had an actor in the background that looked like it could have been the same actor that portrayed Lumiere), given that the CGI animation for him bore a striking resemblence to the wizard's resemblence in OZ.

In any case, I am excited to see where all of this takes us. The writers are crafting a fine tale this time around. If anyone would make sense in the grand sceme of things (and be crazy awesome) to be the Wizard, it would be Victor. Unfortunatly, he is not listed on the press release. So either they didn't list him on the press release because they didn't want people to think he was the Wizard, or they didn't list him on the press release because he's not in the episode, meaning he can't be the Wizard. To me it seems odd they wouldn't list him at all, when you could just think he's on there because he's in the SB part of the episode. I could even see him in a hospital scene with Regina, since we know she's getting thrown through the clock tower clock. On top of that, why would Walsh be in the episode if he's not the Wizard? Who else could he be?