Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-413929-20150429072638

Hey all; my personal theory on getting through a Once Upon a Time Storyline; for pure example, I'll take the Frozen storyline and break it down for everyone to understand, some understanding or knowledge of Assassin's Creed is recommended but not required for this.

We all know that the episodes of the 11 episode storyline jumped without warning between Arendelle in the past {then in Fall the present}, and modernday Storybrooke, to some it might seem confusing. And for me for a time it was indeed confusing, all that jumping back and forth made me confused in the first episode.

So; I decided to try and look at it another way. Basically, Elsa trapped in the urn lost her memories because Ingrid had them, so, in order to regain what she had lost, Elsa had to retrace her steps, so to speak, in Storybrooke searching for Anna. She couldn't just wish to have her memories back, no, that was too easy and wont make for much story if at all.

With all the jumping back and forth I decided to look at the storyline, and then afterwards all of the storylines, as an editioon of Assassin's Creed game series. Each jump to the past in the frozen storyline was a Memory Elsa, and we the viewers, experienced, but without the aid of the Animus, {goodness can you image that in Storybrooke ?! dont want to think about it.... yet}. Each time we were in Arendelle, or with Anna in the ehcnated forest, we were reliving a memory that Elsa lost, and got us all closer, including Elsa, into getting the truth, and in the case of Elsa, getting her memories back.

I treated the storyline as if it were a Once version of Assassin's Creed Revelations, in the game, Desmond is asleep, hooked up to the Animus, and reliving his ancestors memories until the very end when he figures everything out and wakes up. In Once's Frozen storyline, Elsa is, in a manner of speaking, asleep like Desmond was, reliving memories, each memory getting her closer to 'waking up' In this case, Ingrid giving her memories back; Upon getting back her memories; Elsa in a sense, 'wakes up' when her memories are returned, she's fine, healthy, etc.

So, that said, that was how I got through the storyline for season 4A; what about you guys ? 