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Arctucrus wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Toma Cre wrote:

I am guessing the EF characters found a way back to TWLM (more beans?) sometime later in the season and Whale decided to stay. Not beans.... from the looks of it, the Wicked Witch of the West sends them all back. Belle said, in what looked like the Storybrooke town hall,'' "Do you know, who cursed us?" ''There has been a theory, for a while, that Dr. Whale is the Wizard of Oz.

If I understand correctly, we will see the new Storybrooke right away. The flashbacks will fill in the gag, of the characters' year in the Enchanted Forest. Regina practicing with darts, could mean that she and Robin Hood are already a couple. Oh interesting, I didn't know any of this. I wonder why the WWotW will send them back.

As far as the Whale/Wizard theory goes...:o Where can I read more about this please?

I like the idea that the flashbacks will fill that year's gap. This is going to be good! I think, the idea Whale being the Wizard of OZ was brought up by user Kilian Jones. He wrote a blog about his theory once. As we don't have blogs anymore, I can't find a link. If I remember it correctly there may be some clues that Whale is probably the Wizard. I don't know the original Wizard of OZ from my childhood days, so the only thing I'll do is trying to memorize some points of Kilian Jones' Theory.

1. Before entering Storybrooke Whale originally lived in the LWC. The Wizard of OZ entered OZ using a baloon. The land he came from was also black and white.

2. Meeting Regina in EP 205  Dr. Frankenstein (Whale's counterpart) wears a green coat. Moreover mentioning Frankenstein to Regina Jefferson uses the words: "He's ...um...you might say a wizard."

3. In EP 212 Whale attempts to commit suicide and is rescued by Ruby. Later both side on a  yellow painted quay wall talking. In the book there's a Yellow Road.

4. The original Wizard of OZ is some kind of quack. He's performing magic tricks on a fair in the land he's originally coming from. Yet the people of OZ believe him to be a powerful wizard - the one to save them. By the time Kilian Jones published his theory it still was to be seen if Frankenstein/ Whale can accomplish his goal of bringing someone back to life. And even so Daniel came back to Regina in EP 205 he wasn't himself anymore suffering great pain from the fact that someone else's heart was transplanted. Daniel's own being crushed by Regina's mom. And even bringing his brother back to life in LWC hadn't quite the effect everybody wanted. Gerhardt was past all recognition and even killed their father. So at least Whale needs to change some aspects in order to improve the results of his work. There's still some work for him to do.