‘Once Upon a Time’ season 3 spoilers: We (all) are family
One of the strangest things about “Once Upon a Time” is that the family tree is starting to get so complicated, you would start to think that you are watching an episode of “Maury” instead of a fantasy epic revolving around the parallels between fairy tales and real life. Let’s try to make sense of what we know how here in a couple of points.
1. Rumpelstiltskin’s father is Peter Pan, and his son is Baelfire. Meanwhile, his ex-wife had a relationship with Captain Hook at one point, and he has a relationship now with Belle.
2. Baelfire was at one point in a relationship with Emma Swan, and the two had a son in Henry. Emma is also the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.
3. Snow White’s stepmother was at one point Regina, who is the daughter of Cora. Cora at one point had some sort of bizarre relationship with Rumpelstiltskin.
Just in this little description alone, we have basically written about everyone who is a series regular on the show at the moment, even if people like Hook and Belle are not tied to anyone by blood or marriage … at least that we know of right now.
E! News recently gave us the rather interesting tease when it comes to some of these characters. Basically, we are going to find out that two main characters are actually related to each other in some way. Thanks to that, two more characters are also related in a way that they did not know previously. Trying to solve this is like trying to solve a logic problem, and in a way we don’t get it. That may just be because TV shows themed so heavily around family typically don’t have as many interesting layers to them as those where there are so many characters without this sort of intrinsic bond.
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