Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1962215-20140317132636/@comment-24780348-20140502185155

Oh, I also thought of something else.

I don't believe what happened to Frederick was an accident. Midas touched James's sword, and changed it while James was holding it. James wasn't affected.

Frederick was completely covered in armour. Chain shirt, guantlets... the works.

I think it would be silly that Midas's touch could "bleed" like this in the first place, even if they hadn't specifically showed that it couldn't. I find it slightly less absurd that if a person is the thing being petrified, it gets the clothing and items carried, too. (We can't have naked statues strewn all over the land after all.) Even Ruby's transformations allow her to take clothing with. Magic taking the clothing with the person is a little believable and a lot necessary. Magic taking the person with the clothing is absurd and silly. I'm just wondering why they felt they needed to waste time on showing the sword thing if we're not supposed to put this together. They are specifically showing that the touch DOES NOT BLEED! They are taking time out to do this. "Down payment"? How silly. Because Midas totally doesn't have the cash. *eyeroll* The touch CAN'T bleed. If it did we'd have a whole realm frozen in gold.

I think Midas didn't like Frederick. I don't think he liked anyone, and I think that was the purpose of the dragon test. I think Abigail actually really liked Charming (Katherine seemed to, and hey, same person) and her blase, "Oh, I guess he'll do." is an act because she knows exactly what happens if there's a chance at true happiness: Her overprotective, crazy, malicious father takes it away because he can. In the commotion (and Midas probably had a hand in arranging the situation in the first place) he reached under Frederick's chain shirt and tagged him. He did this out of spite, and nastiness, and the most chilling, poignant villainy imaginable, because it's completely true to life. Everybody knows someone who has a parent like this: Basically a naked mole rat (or meerkat if you like) dead-set on their children never being anything but asexual worker bees. They forbid dating for obscene amount of time, hoping the child will never mate sucessfully. If the child gets a chance to mate anyway in adulthood, the parent will go ballistic and find some way to ruin it.

I'm also a little sad about the Greek stuff always being a side thing. It would be nice if they explored it more but I think they strain believability as it is by mixing so many mythologies, and the problem with doing something Greek is that it's based on a real place in our realm's past, so where exactly would they go? Oz and Neverland are built right in as other realms through their own stories. They're easy. If they wanted to do something Aurthurian they could get around this by going to Avalon. They've pretty well ruined the Greek possibility though, by already having gorgons like Medusa show up in the Enchanted Forest. Then again they could always find a way to Calypso's hidden island. Maybe it's a gateway. Maybe it floats around.