Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20141023215822/@comment-25192098-20141119155135

Chameleon-Guy wrote: 1. Who said Belle's mom is dead, Sir Maurice? Well, I haven't seen it so I have my doubts. Plus she was saying "protects these books, they're important", why? She is hiding some secrets, perhaps something connected to the author of the storybook.

2. Snow and Charming don't need romance to do something useful, they need to fight bad guys and have adventures, Snow was badass in season 1 and during the Cora arc, I want her back. I know! Snow was awesome during S1 and I was pretty impressed with her in S2, but ever since S3, she has been a helpless maiden who makes me cringe. Especially since Neal came along and the name "overprotective and annoying mum" was tagged to her, I really don't like her at all. I don't want any more flashbacks of the Charmings, since they pretty much told us all there is to know about them, but if Charmings chopped Ingrid into tiny pieces and MM did some dirty diaper ninja nunchuck stuff, I would finally be able to tolerate them again.

And who knows, maybe Belle's mother is still alive. Probably not, since I don't think Sir Maurice is that mean to Belle to tell her that her mum is dead, but maybe so. And it did seem suspicious how desperate Colette was to save those books. Maybe they're magical! (or maybe she's just a poor little bookworm like Belle)