Re: More Spoilers for Season 2

I also thought he’d be a bit older….like around the same age as the guy who played Hook in that movie with Robin Williams as Peter Pan.

I thought it’d be a younger Hook – before he became the Captain Hook of Peter Pan fame. Even though the actor who plays Hook appears young, I think the character will actually be as old as Rumpel, but hasn’t aged because time stands still in Neverland. Perhaps he only showed up in SB because when Rumpel brought magic to SB, he created portals to other realms (since magic is unpredictable, it could happen). I also have a feeling Beaman is his other alias and that he’s affiliated with Mr. Gold (whose shop sign reads Pawnbroker and Antiques Dealer). We know from the casting call that Beaman is a thief of antiques. Perhaps he is Rumpel’s dealer/smuggler.

I was thinking that maybe the flashback will be to when Captain Hook met up with Milha, Rumple’s ex, and then something happened between them.

I agree with this thought, since I posed the theory back when the casting call for Milha and Beaman was first announced.

I really don’t think Milha is Rumple’s ex-wife. If they were going to introduce us to her I think they would’ve done so back in Desperate Souls. I think she’s just a character who’s going to be used to introduce us to Hook back in FTL.

I don’t think there was any compelling need to introduce us to Mrs. Rumpel in “Desperate Souls” since that was not the focus of the storyline. If anything, not introducing her early on gives Kitsis and Horowitz more room to play with and the writers more intrigue to work with when telling the stories. It keeps us guessing and asking for more, which is one reason we all love OUAT.

I think that Bae will turn out to be Rumple’s though just because if Milha is Bae’s mom, it sounded like she was married and had a baby with Rumple, but then got bored with her life, and then went after something more.

It’s possible the affair was ongoing while Rumpel was in the first ogre’s war, and when he deserted and returned, she tried to make out that it was Rumpel’s son (conceived when he was home on a leave of absence). When she discovered Rumpel was a deserter, she really could have been disgusted by having a coward for a husband, waited to give birth, and then up and took off after “adventure” with Captain Hook.

We saw him breaking into Mr Gold’s shop, could that suggest that Rumple is going to be his enemy? Crazy theory just popped into my head but what if (if Rumple is Hook’s enemy) Hook tries to steal Belle off of Rumple.

I do think there is a rivalry between Rumpel and Hook, but I don’t think it’s over Belle. I think it goes all the way back to Rumpel’s ex-wife, who perhaps left him in the name of adventure for Captain Hook. I don’t think Rumpel has to worry about Belle falling for a crazy pirate. Belle is blinded by love for Rumpel and hasn’t stopped loving him, despite what he did to her.