Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7302713-20130321104107/@comment-7302713-20130321124316

Well not happy endings. Their stories haven't ended yet anyway.

But in fairy tales there's always some seemingly insurmountable thing prevent the characters from finding happiness. Something that needs to be overcome (generally in a magical way) in order for them to move on.

Jefferson is broken (at least he was when we last saw him), but he's no longer desperately making hats in a vain attempt to leave a strange realm, knowing that every minute he's there, his daughter is abandoned. He no longer spends every day desperately trying to find the magic that will let his leave Wonderland and find his child.

As for Cinderella--not ideal circumstances? I hardly think she cares. She has her family back. She had her husband and her child. She was so desperate to not lose her family that she risked tricking Rumple.

The woodcutter was cursed by the Evil Queen to wander the forest for forever and never find his children--they couldn't be reunited in FTL unless the Queen removed the curse.

Sidney made an wish he's regretted every day since. Is being trapped in an asylm really worse than being trapped in a mirror? Maybe it's equivalent, but the insurmountable issue of being trapped in a mirror has been dealt with.

In a related issue, do we have any idea what happens if they return to FTL? Does the Blue Fairy's magic take over Jiminy? Does he return to cricket form? Does Sidney's wish still stand? Does he become the Magic Mirror again? Does Regina's curse still stand? Will the woodcutter automatically be separated from his children again? Never to find them?

Makes you wonder what would have happened to Pinocchio is he hadn't gone into the wardrobe.