Actually, we’re not certain yet. Sources will only say he’s playing a “mysterious new character”.
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Once Upon A Time - Season 2 - Michael Raymond-James to recur
4 Aug 2012
Once Upon A Time
Michael Raymond-James is coming on board the second season of the hit fantasy drama in a recurring role as …
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He's AMAZING ! I Was so disappointed when i heard that NBC didn't took his pilot "Midnight Sun". Can't Wait !
ReplyDeleteLoved him in Terriers. Happy to hear about this.
ReplyDeleteI don´t like him :D
ReplyDeleteBaelfire.
ReplyDeleteTerriers is the only thing I've liked him in. Everything else he's in makes him seem really skeevy.
ReplyDeleteI don't know his work,or maybe he is just forgettable?
ReplyDeleteI was so hoping Dr. Whale = Jack in the Beanstock, but now I am wondering if this character is Jack and Beanstalk, because again we have "mysterious" description? But maybe Michael Raymond James is "Beaman", which I kind speculated that Beaman could be "Bea", but I see a double twist where Bea could be Beaman, and Beaman could be Bean-man, and so we have Bean stock...but maybe it's just both characters relate to fairies and magical beans...
ReplyDeleteagreed!
ReplyDeleteWould Baelfire be considered a 'new' character?
ReplyDelete^ This is why I think he's either Jack or the Beaman character they were looking for recently.
ReplyDeleteYour guess is as good as mine? And when did they try to start being cryptic?
ReplyDeleteYeah, because we have never met him as an adult...
ReplyDeleteNo no, Dr. Whale is most definitely the pied piper. One time he said the phrase "pipe dream" kinda awkwardly, and then I knew. Then I knew without a doubt he was the pied piper.
ReplyDelete...Or maybe he's someone else
Dr Whale = "Jonah and the Whale". Jonah is a variation of John and so is "Jack". ---Jack Shppeard, like Whale are both doctors, and play on BIBLICAL themes....when I went to look up origins behind Jack and the Beanstock, The Book of Jonah is the speculated source :
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk
The biblical tale of Jonah closes rather abruptly with the hero resting under a fast growing gourd, Hebrew קיקיון (qiyqayown), the only time in Scripture so mentioned. While scholars place the historical events in the 8th century BCE they were not recorded by Hebrew scribes until some centuries later. In his Latin Vulgate, St. Jerome refers to the Old Testament prophet's encounter with the fast growing vine as "hedera" (in English, ivy) a choice St. Augustine rejected, preferring the commonly known vegetable known as cucurbita in Latin from which the English cucumber is derived. During the Renaissance, the humanist artist Durer memorialized Jerome's courage to dissent in his famous woodcut Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer) featuring a dried gourd hanging from the rafters. Possible confusion with the didactic of fable may have motivated use of clearer analogy for the type of Christ "I am the Vine you are the branches" already contained in the miraculous whale tale. The escatological admonition to Nineva contained in the Book of Jonah bears certain resemblances to the moral of the demise of the ogre (not explicitly justified as evil in the original text, see Controversies below, but simply overweaningly powerful and ugly). However the tale's profane dualism is reversed in sacred scripture's salvation of the errant inhabitants of Ninevah, opening a present beset by difficulties to the transcendent hope in Divine Providence.
More Biblical references:(Snow White = Bros Grimm = German Judeo-Christian roots - Snow White is MARY [Margerate] the mother of "the savior", and her husband is DAVID/JAMES)
James was shepherd before taking his twins place a royal prince. The episode "the Shepherd" highlights Biblical teachings of 'a good shepherd'. Additionally Regina's former love interest, Daniel (also a Biblical name) was a "stable boy', which is similar occupation to a shepherd.
The idea of an iconic tree and picking "forbidden fruit" again derives from Biblical origins, 'the sins of Adam and Eve' and a segway to Tree of Life/Tree of Knowledge, as the show uses magic as a way to show political power through knowledge and creation verses doing the right things, such as being a good parent...
Beaman = Baelfire IMO... LOST and Fringe have used fake names, so it's not a stretch that Once would do it too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Bae and/or Henry's father?
ReplyDeleteAMAZING news!!! Hope to see Baelfire all grown up too.
ReplyDeleteBaelfire....... 'cause Cap'n Hook's already been cast!
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