Once Upon A Time: Time Travel Stories = Plot Holes!

Once Upon A Time: Time Travel Stories = Plot Holes!

Posted by Dustin on 04.21.2014 at 5:59 pm

So I never wrote up a blog on last week’s “Hook-centric” episode. It was fun, and I enjoyed it. The big twist was that Zelena cursed Hook’s lips so that the next time he kissed Emma he’d strip her of her magic. Clearly her new curse can’t go through while Emma has her magic. So far Hook hasn’t done it, but she’s threatening to kill Henry, Snow and everyone else Emma loves one by one if he stalls too long.

This week we got a lot closer to figuring out Zelena’s plans. We knew she was planning to go back in time and get rid of Regina so that she was the one Rumple tutored, but it’s actually much more. Zelena managed to get Regina’s heart from Robin, but she still doesn’t have Snow’s baby. It seems Snow’s baby is the last thing she needs, and as Snow pointed out . . . they are running out of time as the baby is gunna come any day now.

Regina cast a spell to conjure up Cora’s ghost to get the truth as to what happened with Zelna. We learned Cora was a bar maid, met a man, fell in love, and he proposed claiming to be a prince. They made love and she got knocked up, only to learn he was the gardner for Prince Leopold (Snow’s father). She was furious, but soon set her sights on Leopold. Cora really has always been about gaining power and status. Leopold was planning to spurn Princess Eva (Snow’s mother), the woman he’s been betrothed to since birth, for Cora. Unfortunately the gardner learned of Cora’s plan and he wouldn’t leave unless she paid him off. Unfortunately Eva heard the gardner blackmailing Cora, and she reported to Leopold about Cora and her child. Leopold then caught Cora stealing jewels to pay off her baby daddy and threw her out.

So Leopold went on to marry Ava, while Cora was out in the cold. She dumped Zelena after her birth, and Zelena got transported to Oz in a magic tornado. The rest we know. Cora went on to marry Henry, had Regina and then conspired to basically punish Ava and Leopold using her daughter to do so.

In Storybrooke’s present, Gold is still Zelena’s servant. She’s promised him that if her spell goes through, that he’ll have his son back, he’ll have never died as all this will be erased. Gold doesn’t trust her and has vowed to see her dead. He even tried to seduce her and get his dagger back, but failed. Meanwhile Belle reported to Snow, Emma and Regina that she’s figured out Zelena’s plan. The ingredients are a time travel spell, she’s going back in time. Regina realizes it’s to kill Ava so that Cora marries Leopold and becomes Rumple’s pupil, she’ll have everything she felt she was denied. Therefore Snow, Emma and yes even Regina will never have been born.

Okay wait wait wait . . . this just isn’t gunna fly. This right here is why time travel story-lines are too problematic! I have been picking this apart all day. I know, it’s TV, I should just accept it and move on. However I just can’t! The spurned Cora sought out Gold (or he sought her out? I can’t remember) but both used each other. Cora used Gold’s magic to get the power she wanted, the position she wanted and eventually the revenge she wanted. Cora wasn’t powerful enough to cast Gold’s curse (I think?) which is why he turned to Regina. However he had to let Regina believe the curse was her idea and what she wanted, as Regina too was out for revenge and to benefit herself. Basically without the context of Cora being spurned by Leopold, so much would have been changed in the past that Rumple may not be able to use them for his curse! They would have been a happy content family, what could Rumple offer or tempt them with? Why would he have even sought them out? There may have been another he could have used and abused.

Grrrrrr! I’m also mad that Zelena’s father turned out to be a nobody. It does however make her easier to get rid off for good.

Below is the preview for next week’s episode which gives a glimpse into what happened to cast the first part of the new curse.

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  1. I thought Rumple’s curse was to get him to a land where there was no magic so that he could find his son. So if they go back far enough in time, perhaps he doesn’t become The Dark One and is never separated from his son? But then he wouldn’t be able to train her. Hmm, I think Zelena is so blinded by her envy that she doesn’t realize the big holes in her plan to go back in time. And yes, Cora does need to be spurned by Leopold as well as another prince, if I am not mistaken (the one that she needed to spin gold for and originally came in kahoots with Rumple) for this to all work out. I think the sad truth is that Zelena is going to learn that Cora really didn’t want her even if things had worked out.

    Comment by Marie
    04.21.2014 at 7:22 pm
  2. My understanding was to get him to our world because he suspected or believed that’s where his son was (which is where he was). He cast the curse to be reunited with him basically.

    As Zelena was promising, he’d get back with his son, and would never have to lose him as Regina and Emma and Snow would not have been born. Zelena would be his pupil and bring him to where he needed to be to find Neil/Bae . . . . then again he would also be trapped in Storybrooke and there would be no Emma to bring Neil/Bae to him lol- – – More holes!

    Comment by Dustin
    04.21.2014 at 7:50 pm
  3. So another thing I was thinking about. Did Leopold not realize that he was marrying Cora’s daughter? I find it rather odd that he would be game to marry her if he did. Plus why would Cora want Regina to marry him anyways. The only reason I can think of would be to stick it to Eva. The other thing that I am wondering, it must have taken Eva and Leopold a long time to conceive Snow and Cora must have gotten pregnant with Regina ASAP because otherwise Snow and Regina should be closer in age. Which they do look now, but in the past when Regina saved her, there was definitely a huge age difference.

    Comment by Marie
    04.23.2014 at 10:16 am
  4. I find the entire plot hole thing really frustrating. So Leopold had a thing with Cora, but later marries Eva (Ava?), while Cora ends up married to Henry and gives birth to Regina. Eva gives birth to Snow White, who is saved by Regina when she is on a runaway horse (season 1). Leopold then comes to meet Regina and asks her to marry him. However, he shows absolutely no signs of recognizing Cora, nor was it ever mentioned before that she knew him.

    Comment by Shana
    05.15.2014 at 2:48 pm

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