Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-264749-20130218073608/@comment-122.148.95.80-20130513093341

I for one find this storyline really strange. First of all, Wendy never says Peter Pan's name in the beginning. She only ever says "He" or "the shadow" or "the boy".

Let's look at Peter Pan's shadow from the books. Peter Pan lost his shadow when he abruptly flew away when he was listening to one of her stories for her brothers. The window flew down and ripped his shadow off him. Peter came back again to find his shadow, tried to stick it back on, only to have Wendy gladly sew it back on for him.

My friend and I theorised after "the second star to the right" episode (episode 21) that perhaps Peter's shadow was after his own body, which is why he kidnapped boys. We thought it would be Baelfire. And from "and straight on til morning" season finale that I just watched... everything pointed towards it! Baelfire hated Hook, was rebellious, ready to fight like crazy... But then the end of the episode they didn't want Baelfire, they wanted Henry (which is funny because if he never escaped/left Neverland he would never have Henry in the first place. I am a bit disappointed because Baelfire even acted a little like Peter in the end.

Anyhoo one thing is clear. We are still not sure if this is "peter pan" the boy or still just the shadow or if they are still seperate entities. The only other reason I can come up with now is that he wants Henry to reunite him with his shadow. Or that Henry ends up reuniting him with his shadow, without Peter Pan realising. Maybe in Neverland the shadow is as important as the heart, and once having lost it you have no feelings/no heart and just become darkness.

The other troubling part about Once Upon a Time's Peter Pan is that the people working for Peter - Tamara and Greg - are wanting to get rid of magic. They do not know who they work for, perhaps they do not even know that they are heading for peter pan? There has been a theory going around that peter pan wants to rid magic in all worlds to make magic look more appealing to the children... so he can keep stealing them.

The flaw there is that we just found out the boys are being taken because he is after a particular boy, Henry.

I also find it quite odd that Rumplestilstkin is called The Dark One in his world and is linked to his dagger. In Neverland, there is Peter Pan and The Shadow... which implies magic, further darkness, and the similar sort of link between The Dark One and the Dagger, as there is with Peter Pan and his Shadow. It also makes me realise that we know a lot about Rumplestiltskin becoming The Dark One, but we do not know a lot about The Dark One. How it came to be, who it was before hand, and so on. Perhaps it is a curse or a similar predicament in many worlds?

Btw I would just like to say I miss the Mad Hatter and wish we got to see more about Alice and the Mad Hatter. 

This brings me to my last point. Magic seeping into other worlds. We know there is an organisation trying to stop magic appearing in StoryBrooke's world - our world, the real world. This also happens to be a common theme so far throughout two seasons. In thefirst season we find out about The Mad Hatter and that there are many portals/ways into other worlds... and obviously Alice from our world found her way into the Queen of Hearts world. Magic also seeped into the black and white world of Frankenstein... then the whole Blue? Dragon in China (sad we never found out who he was) or if he really did manage to survive - seems kind of silly with a magical entity like that to just be killed off for good by a simple taser... and we now have another tale where magic seeps into Wendy's world, with Peter Pan.

So my question here is... where is this all leading to? :)