Board Thread:Show-Related Questions and Answers/@comment-24062891-20131017201823

The Lost Girl episode and other Season 3 episodes brings up many questions:

Questions:

1) Is Mr.Gold's Shadow related/or is the same type of shadows that bring the children to Neverland?

2) Since Mr.Gold's Shadow was cut out from him with what appears to be the Rumplestiltskin Dagger he possesses, does that mean a magical object (dagger) or magical being (possess ability to do magic) can only remove the shadow from the person?

a) Like in the novel The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, the knife can cut shadows/dust particles and carve portals of world. Shadow = dust in the Subtle Knife, being consciousness, knowledge, wisdom.

3) If Mr. Gold's shadow/soul was cut out, does that mean he will die like Greg, or does a shadow operate like the magical heart: how when Cora, pulls out a heart the physical person lives on but without a spirit/moral restraint/ effects on the moral heart.? I am thinking that when Greg Mendel had his shadow/soul pulled out he fell to the ground/died.

4) Will Greg Mendel be alive? His soul was pulled out from him by a shadow. But not a death by a heart being crushed like Tamara's.  I thought it was an interesting significance that OUAT displayed these two magical ways of destroying character's life. One dies from a shadow the other dies from the crushed heart. Both shadow and heart are linked to the soul. We know that a crushed heart = not easy to revive like Daniel, Frankenstein, it needs to be replaced with another heart, and the specific persons body. If Greg and Tamara's physical bodies die in Neverland and are not preserved, then the shadow or another person's heart can not restore them to life,respectively. But what about Mr.Gold and Cora, shadow and heart pulled out, but they are still alive. This contrast between Mr.Gold and Cora, versus Greg and Tamara, might be explainable in that Gold and Cora are magical and their physical bodies do not drop to death immediately after the shadow or heart is pulled out.

5) Which begs the question of where is the soul? Is it in the shadow, heart, or is it in both shadow and heart, or in either the shadow or heart depending on what is pulled out.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">6) Or is the shadow the soul, and the heart is the morals/or mirror of morals; where bad deeds will reflect black marks on the heart. Like Snow and Regina's hearts blackened because of their killing actions.

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">7) Is Cora's heart with blacken spots? I only remember Snow holding the candle over a reddish heart. (Can anyone recall?)

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If Cora's heart was pure red: Cora killed, but she killed without her heart, so does that mean her heart was never tarnished with black spots. Does this mean she preserved her heart/soul from her evil deeds/ died without a blackened heart or soul? Or was her heart blackened with spots after the insertion?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If Cora's heart was with black spots: does this mean she is suffering from breaking her morals?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8) In the episode Quite a Common Fairy, Regina still showed or was strong enough to show concern for her son Henry to Tinkerbell even when her heart was pulled out. Does this mean that without a heart you can still voice your love for another, or is it with a heart that you can show/feel complete love like how Cora showed Regina before she die?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">What if Regina has blacken heart and shows love for Henry, is it complete love felt by both Regina and Henry or is the blackness impeding it?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10) If Aurora had killed while her heart was controlled by Cora would she have a black heart or is the heart just being controlled, and without the heart being in Aurora thus, cannot be blackend. In modern language would Aurora be responsible for the crime. Versus if Cora without her heart would mean would Cora would not be responsible for her crime if the heart = the brain in modern terms?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">11) Is the shadow = soul or spirit? heart = soul or morals or brain/mentally sane?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">12) Aurora had restored Philip but we don't know how, except Cora said Philip's soul is just in another realm. Recall, Philip had his shadow/soul pulled out by a wraith.

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">13) Shadow can pull shadow/soul, Wraith can pull shadow/soul

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">b) Like in the novel Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling, the dementors draws out the soul.

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">14) Cross novel theories common themes: Is this where OUAT is headed?

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">c) Wraith [OUAT] = Spectres [The Subtle Knife] = Dementors [Harry Potter]

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Shadows [OUAT] = Shadows/Dust [The Subtle Knife]= Life/Warmth [Harry Potter]

<p style="line-height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Emma Swan [OUAT] = Lyra [The Subtle Knife] = Harry Potter [Harry Potter] = Orphans/Saviour <ac_metadata title="Functions of the OUAT shadow, heart and soul, plus links to other novels."> </ac_metadata>