Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24132590-20131105023959/@comment-23871096-20131105064248

Utter solitude wrote: Ljsorenson wrote: your right Jiminy was changed by the Blue fairy, I concede that point.... but that puts an even greater weight on the blue fairy to temporarily change people to Merfolk to get to a new realm or even just get a big boat to get to a new continent because they the story unfolds it suggests Mulan's land, and Agrabah are in the Enchanted forest's realm just on different continents and were untouched by the curse... Rumple was working off his prophetic visions, which are what led him to make the choices he made. Him simply turning into a merman could have failed for any number of reasons, or not gotten him to where he needed to go, so of course he went with the Curse. Another thing to consider when thinking Rumple can just change into a merman and travel realms is he also needed magic. I can't think of the details of it's importance but he went thru great lenths to make sure the curse happened in a way that after its broken he can bring magic (which is his crutch that he couldn't live w/o) To Storybrook. Sometimes when you question why a certain thing didn't or did happen on this show you need to gleen from past episodes or from certain objects and the why's and hows of that object. I.E. the magical bracelette.