What was the significance of Mr. Gold giving out the father’s name after having looked at a blank piece of paper? Are we supposed to infer that he didn’t really sell him that compass but that he knows who the father is anyway-- ie, that he knows all the stuff from the fairytale and how it relates to Storybrook?
I wish they weren’t playing the queen as so one dimensional.
Uh – if the father claims he and whoozie was a ‘one time thing’, we’re supposed to believe those kids are twins? Man, she sure looks years older and more mature than her brother.
I think we were just supposed to infer that Gold knows more than he wants Emma to know he knows.
I think, in general, girls mature more quickly than boys.
Looking it up on IMDB it turns out that the actors who portray Gretel and Hansel were both born in 1999.
Yeah, I thought the guy who turned up in the end of the Hansel and Gretel episode on the motorcycle was going to be the father. Much like you guys, I am glad it wasn’t. Would have been a little bit too easy. But, definitely intriguing to see how this stranger fits in. Is he truly from out of town? Or does he have a counterpart in happy ever after land, like most everyone else.
I’m guessing the kid’s father is going to come up again, though. Probably a whole thing that involves him losing faith in Emma over the lie.
I’m really enjoying this show. It’s far better than I expected, and I look forward to watching the show each week. I like the back and forth between past and present. The trickle of information heightens the drama, but it’s always enough to be interesting. I just hope they have a future endpoint clearly defined. I can imagine this show growing stale if they don’t know where they are going.
Another LOST easter egg: the license plate of the motorcycle at the end of the episode reads “23”.
So I assume that the childrens’ memories of their dead mother are just false memories, right? And I wonder what would have happened if Emma had driven them out of Storybrooke. Something fatal? Presumably Regina knows this and wanted to get rid of them, and perhaps Emma at the same time?
I liked the exchange between Emma and Mary Margaret when Emma told her how Henry thinks they are mother/daughter. Both of them were blowing it off, but Mary Margaret does say, “Well, you do have my chin.” And then when she sees Emma’s baby blanket and takes a smell of it… scent can be a powerful memory trigger!
Maybe the dad is Peter, Pumpkin-Eater.
I’m actually being somewhat serious since Emma mentioned that she’d had a bad experience with a married man and she told Henry his dad loved Pumpkin Pie.
Henry left, but only temporarily. Presumably, the same thing would have happened to the children. It’s possible that Regina is unaware of this.
Damn. I had the same thought last night!
I’m actually rather sorry she told Henry that lie. I know she wanted to give him someone and something to believe in, and that she thought the kid couldn’t handle the truth, but think of what the kid is already handling, and pretty well.
Plus, on the Anton Chekov principal, this lie is going to backfire, big time.
Last week they made me feel rather sorry for Rumplestiltskin, this week I’m almost (but not quite) sorry for the Queen. She really doesn’t seem to understand love. And yet, this obviously took place after she lost whoever it was she lost to make her hate Snow White and everyone else’s happy endings so much.
I think that’s quite possible.
As for the twins, I was first a little skeptical because of the size difference, but age 12 is about exactly when you’d expect girls to be taller than boys. Maybe a little younger. I’m pretty tall, and I remember clearly that the only time I wasn’t the tallest kid in the class was 5th grade, when one of the girls was taller. That would have been about 11 years old. Close enough.
I wish she’d had more screentime.
Who is Anya?
The actress who played the blind witch that trapped Hansel & Gretel in this episode is Emma Caulfield, who once upon a time played a character named Anya for several seasons in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I own the Buffy boxed set (All 7 seasons) and I didn’t recognize her. :smack:
I don’t think I would have either, but I had read about her appearance beforehand.
Whew, I finally caught up! I just saw the most recent episode last night.
My biggest question that I haven’t seen on here is what is the deal with Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin and children? He had his taken, he has made multiple deals to get children, and was also picked to get a child for the Queen/Regina. I wonder if part of the reason he is helping Emma is that she is a single mother who wants to (and actually does) help her son.
Or it could just be that now someone who owes him a favor has more power. Is the favor going to be for Emma to stab him with the dagger later?
It’s okay. I find him attractive every time I see him in something, but never remember who he is…and I’ve seen at least 25% of the movies/shows he’s been in. He’s an “oh, it’s that guy!”
Nicholas Lea (the twins’ dad) has been all over TV this week. He was Eliot Ness this week too 
'course every time I see him in something, I expect him to doublecross the good guys. Or maybe the bad guys…
Yep, he’ll always be Krycek to me.
I wonder if we just saw one of the seeds of the evil Queen’s desire to have a child. It seemed fairly out of character for her to want to adopt a child until this episode. Her final question to the father in HEAL is some of the first vulnerability we’ve seen.
oh yeah, and it’s nice to see that good magic can also work in the real world (the compass magically pointing to the kids’ father). That could open up other possibilities if other magical HEAL objects made it into the real world (which is maybe why Gold is a collector of sorts).
I always forget who he is, then he pops up somewhere and I’m like, “where do I know that guy from” then I go to IMDB and I’m all, OH that guy from Kyle XY (or KY Lexy as I usually parse it in my head).