Is Lucy really Henry and Cinderella’s daughter? Who actually cast the Dark Curse? What is the bad thing that will happen to the people that Regina loves if the curse is broken? All these questions plus a lengthy conversation on Roni’s wake up call, Drizella and this Dark Curse, and more in this full-discussion of this well-acted episode, “Wake Up Call.”

“Wake Up Call” is may be the best acted episode of the entire series. Perhaps not the best written episode, but the dialogues are good. Regina and Ivy, their back and forth, especially Lana Parrilla’s expression and without saying a word said so much is amazing. How she has to do that in acting, as well as Adelaide Kane’s, is fantastic. Adelaide Kane’s Drizella had the same depth as Lana Parrilla playing Regina.

The title card showed a tower in ruins, however, the tower that we saw in the episode was not ruined. Does the bat in the tower have something to do with towers? Is the ruined tower the bat’s home? How is the tower relevant to the story? Is it more foreshadowing of things to come rather than necessarily relevant to this episode in itself?

The Butterfly Effect

Lucy is on the quest to finding the story book and have them touch it. But, Henry’s story book isn’t there. It also seems there aren’t a lot of illustrations in Henry’s book since he didn’t even recognize Roni the first time he met her at Roni’s. As far as we know, the book that Henry wrote is his story, not the one about the original Once Upon a Time story book. After all, this has adult Emma and young Henry getting two mothers, but also referencing the stories that were in the original book. Furthermore, this curse gave them the exact same background, just with more modern labels to it. Killian was actually shot and was actually saved; Roni actually tried to adopt a baby but got turned down; Henry basically has Emma’s story but he was actually born in prison. It seemed like it twisted their memories rather than erase them; their stories weren’t changed as much compared to Regina’s Dark Curse.

The whole forgetting part of everything was always added to the curse. Zelena added the forgetting potion when she flew around before the curse hit. Regina also managed to add in and gave them new memories when she cast the original Dark Curse. What embellishment did Ivy add to this Dark Curse? Is this even THE Dark Curse or an entirely new curse?

I have a new theory regarding Lucy. I’ve theorized that Lucy is not really Henry’s daughter and that she had to have been around when he met Cinderella for the timeline to work, but now I’m thinking something different. After this week’s episode and the revelations about Drizella, I just don’t feel like it would’ve taken her 10-11 years to build this curse. She’s a quick study and she would’ve never been patient enough to take that long for her revenge, unlike Rumple and Hook. So, I’m wondering if the fairies created Lucy, kind of like Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (for those who watched it). I’m wondering if she was implanted into Henry’s memories in the Enchanted Forest 2.0 as a way to help him get back to Jacinda during the curse. If we look at what Lucy has been saying to Henry, all she had said is that Henry and Jacinda are her parents and that they are cursed fairy tale characters. But she doesn’t seem to know anything about her past before the curse. The only people she recognizes from the curse are her parents. She had no idea who Roni was.