Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20170909025746/@comment-2153169-20171110230547

DatNuttyKid wrote: The question is, if Rapunzel isn't Eloise and the backstory focuses on her and Hook, why is this episode named after Eloise?

The easiest answer is that the Witch is Eloise and this backstory focuses more on her than on Trepunzel. But that wouldn't solve the mystery of Tremaine's missing backstory (since it would be as much her centric as 704 and 706 are Alice and Drizella's.) Furthermore, I feel like the cult or whatever introduced in 705 is involved with Victoria or Ivy and we know they are involved with Eloise, so I'm still not sold on the Witch being Eloise.

The second answer is that this episode isn't actually about or necessarily even features Eloise, but she's a major theme. If, for example, we have Hook looking for his daughter in the backstory and interacting with Rapunzel in the meantime, then in the present we delve into why and how Victoria or whoever is keeping Eloise away from Rogers, then we don't necessarily need to meet Eloise in this episode but the episode being named after her would still make sense.

Well, I don't think Hook is a major player of these flashbacks. From what I understood, this is meant to be a Witch/Rapunzel flashback. So yeah, Witch/Trepunzel (love that name! :D).

But yeah, to me, the Witch is Eloise, many clues seem to point out that direction.