@RumplesGirl wrote:
Gotta be an August story!! Gotta be what’s INSIDE THE FREAKING BOX. If the box is not featured in this episode, and its contents….. *explosion*
Ok. Theory for this episode: We learn where August has been for this whole season. We also learn of his connection/deal with the BF. At the BF’s instructions August broke up Neal and Emma by showing Neal the picture of Rumple’s dagger in his box. Later, he collected baby Henry and brought him to the BF who then gave him to Rumple who gave him to Regina, but only AFTER the BF had put the idea of having a child into Regina’s mind. I think in order for August to repent for his actions with Neal and Emma AND because he broke his promise to Emma when she was a baby, he will probably die in this episode. But hopefully after he has reunitd with Gepetto.
Yes, I would put money that either August or Gepetto is a goner this episode to write them out of the show. I’m not sure what happened exactly whether there were any truth to the rumors that Eion Bailey was difficult to work with, which seems unlikely given that there’s been no rumors about his behavior from other projects he’s worked on, or whether the writers just didn’t know what to do with him because there were already too many characters to work with this season, but it’s a shame that they couldn’t have wrote his character better this season.
He was never my favorite character, but in terms of the show’s continuity, it just makes it look bad that last season he’s close with Emma and Henry, and this season, everyone pretty much forgets all about him, not even any mention of him since episode 3.
Anyhow, while I’m not sure about the time line for him to be able to bring Henry to Storybrooke because it seems like he was in Phuket from the time he took the money from Neal until he started turning back to wood on Emma’s 28th birthday, but I always thought that there was something to Regina saying he looked familiar to her. So for characters that are on canvas right now, I would say that August probably had some part in bringing Henry to Storybrooke while Greg has something to do with Henry’s book.