Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24304025-20150116200351/@comment-24674051-20150119180650

FrancisPaul wrote: A friend pointed out that Peddler from 416 is the same peddler in Wonderland ep. 6 and also Peddler from Alladin. Any thoughts? Really? While the credits list a peddler in Wonderland, it is listed as Old Peddler, and has a different actor (not that it would be the first time an actor for a role was switched). While I can see where it would be a cool twist, and a good possible tie in for Will Scarlett, I don't think that it would necessarily have to be the same peddler in all 3. (In all honesty, a peddler would not be that uncommon of a character reference.  There were also peddlers in Hunchback and Beauty and the Beast, though not as prominent as the one from Aladdin).

If your friend has a source for thier information, I would love to see it.

As for my thoughts (which are nothing but pure speculation), I see a Peddler as a good way of introducing a character that has had interactions with almost every character, yet the characters don't realize it. Peddlers are, to quote Regina, rather vanilla, since peddlers are commoners, and there are a lot of them around. It would be a great disguise for someone that wants to keep tabs on the world, but not have the world realize who they were. My bet is that the sorcerer was the type that liked to know everything going on, and liked to have that knowledge first hand (rather than just spying through a crystal ball or relying on the reports of others). He enjoyed interactions with people, but did not want people knowing who he was (for fear that they would overwhelm him with requests). And he is powerful enough to be disguised as a Peddler, and not even the Dark One would realize that he was around.