Who placed the erase FTL memory spell around Storybrook? Is it to protect this world

PunkMaister · #1 10-08-2012, 10:00 PM

OK Here is the deal, we do know the curse was designed from scratch by Rumpel and that he obviously intended for the curse to be broken and to bring magic into this world so he could find his son and go back to his tricks in a world that also has advanced technology unlike the stone age world he came from. We also know he was surprised, frustrated and outraged when he learn about the FTL memory erase spell placed around the town preventing him from leaving.

Question is who placed it there? Am I the only who feels it was placed there to keep the likes of Regina, Rumpel and Cora from wreaking havoc in this world as they did in theirs?

Mike0908 · #2 10-08-2012, 10:44 PM

I'm thinking it was the price for bringing magic to storybrooke. I'm guessing you probably would lose your magic too. An amensiac with magical powers would still be dangerous to the world especially if they wanted to use them for evil.

Although it would be interesting to see Regina & Rumple because they've known all along. I wonder how their personalitie would really change if they lost their fairy tale memories. Maybe Regina would go back to being the innocent girl she was before Daniel's death?

PunkMaister · #3 10-08-2012, 11:45 PM

And yet magic did leak out of Storybrook because we saw that enigmatic character in New York magically receive a message that the curse was broken in fact it makes me question if this world really never had any magic to begin with or it did and it was banished long ago to prevent the same kind of cataclysm that virtually destroyed their world. In OUAT Magic has the same power to destroy worlds as nukes do minus the radiation given the devastation we saw in this week's episode of that once beautiful world. The message of human self destructiveness echoes across this show just as it does on most scifi/fantasy shows.

I think she would assume her personality of Mayor of storybrook snd forget all about her FTL past if she crossed same with Rumpel he would simply become Mr Gold Antiques dealer. But i don't expect the spell to contain them forever, Rumpell will find a way around it eventually. But he will have to contend with whoever placed it there to begin with

Nix006 · #4 10-09-2012, 07:01 AM

one thing is for sure mr gold/rumple didn't know about it the question is did regina, no one actually said anything to her regarding the border not that i can recall so maybe she did it as part to keep everyone is SB. tho i'm not sure about that either, it can't be cora becoz she's still in FTL and the blue fairy has not dust. and not malificent as she was a dragon, tho is she's not really dead after her fight with emma, and got her memories back and magic maybe!!

i'm thinking that the same person who wrote henry's book, sent the stanger the message is the one who put the border line curse/spell up.

PunkMaister · #5 10-09-2012, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by Nix006

one thing is for sure mr gold/rumple didn't know about it the question is did regina, no one actually said anything to her regarding the border not that i can recall so maybe she did it as part to keep everyone is SB. tho i'm not sure about that either, it can't be cora becoz she's still in FTL and the blue fairy has not dust. and not malificent as she was a dragon, tho is she's not really dead after her fight with emma, and got her memories back and magic maybe!!

i'm thinking that the same person who wrote henry's book, sent the stanger the message is the one who put the border line curse/spell up.

It's very unlikely that Regina placed the FTL memory erase spell there, we saw in the first season that she fought nail and tooth to keep the curse going forever and she did not even know Rumpel would bring magic to this world and the way this particular spell works again seems geared to protect this world from powerful magical beings. As for who is behind Henry's book and the spell it could be more than one person responsible hence the message, but again it begs the question if this world really had no magic to begin with since the message was delivered through magic.

Meo · #6 10-15-2012, 10:56 PM

I'm going to go with a 3rd Party, the White Rabbit who arrived here before Rumple and the gang. I think it's a counter measure after finding out that FTL is now in Storybrooke. Placed there just in case the spell gets broken after the arrival of the FTL characters.

Rumple created the curse so he could find Bae. Not being able to escape is not part of his plan. His plan has always been to get Emma to undo the curse and find Bae.

Regina didn't want people to escape but I don't think she was the one that created the barrier cause once she got to Storybrooke, she lost her magical powers, and I don't think she modified Rumple's curse. I think that the original barrier/price was that they could never leave town via means of fate. Losing their memory is probably a new thing.

As for Cora, hasn't she been MIA for the last 28 years.

PunkMaister · #7 10-16-2012, 04:25 AM

^ The white rabbit?

Nix006 · #8 10-16-2012, 07:13 AM

you got a point there, about rumple and regina, maybe with magic comes with a price. and they don't always know what the price is so to addition of regina's fathers heart maybe that was the price, (just thinking here).

and since we know

Shh Spoiler!

other than it being the Fairies maybe

i'm gonna go with option 5
"Unknown 3rd party"

Meo · #9 10-16-2012, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by PunkMaister

^ The white rabbit?

I'm just speculating the dude in Season 2 Episode 1 was the White Rabbit. Cause he had a Hatter & O'Hare Poster, they showed an old watch and b/c the White Rabbit was able to cross over in Alice in Wonderland.

Of course the guy could be completely unimportant and irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Nix006

you got a point there, about rumple and regina, maybe with magic comes with a price. and they don't always know what the price is so to addition of regina's fathers heart maybe that was the price, (just thinking here).

and since we know

Shh Spoiler!

other than it being the Fairies maybe

i'm gonna go with option 5
"Unknown 3rd party"

I have thought that it was part of the price to pay. But the thing is the "price" to be paid is usually imposed on whoever used the spell.

Unless it's the price for having the spell broken...I would assume breaking a spell has it's prices

PunkMaister · #10 10-17-2012, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Meo

I'm just speculating the dude in Season 2 Episode 1 was the White Rabbit. Cause he had a Hatter & O'Hare Poster, they showed an old watch and b/c the White Rabbit was able to cross over in Alice in Wonderland.

Of course the guy could be completely unimportant and irrelevant.

No! Absolutely not the guy showed at the opening of season 2 just has to be relevant specially when he magically got the message that the curse was broken. I never pictured the White rabbit as a human interesting theory.

Originally Posted by Meo

I have thought that it was part of the price to pay. But the thing is the "price" to be paid is usually imposed on whoever used the spell.

Unless it's the price for having the spell broken...I would assume breaking a spell has it's prices

But then there would have been a price to pay when Charmin broke Regina's apple spell over Snow back in FTL and there wasn't. This is a separate sort of protection spell to keep magical beings from going into our world.