Interesting stuff! Can’t believe it’s getting so close already!
Re: the taser – they have gotten tons of flack for that. 🙁 They’ve been saying for so long that their fans are smart (even though the network staff loves to dumb stuff down for us; sometimes ahead of time in promos) and then they have this moment of assuming we are smart enough to realize that’s not a normal taser and people attacked them for it because it was the instrument that caused something to happen they didn’t want and didn’t behave like normal ones would. =/ With this show anything is possible and most things have an explanation! Just not necessarily the very first time we’re introduced to something.
I think one of the main issues is that they have something happen and leave that thread hanging for later when it makes sense to tell that part of the story based on what is going on in future episodes and people mistakeningly call them plot holes. They’re not plot holes, they’re threads and some of them are even addressed in the very next episode! (Not the taser though, hoping we get that one soon).
A good example of this is Hook’s hook being enchanted. We heard him say he took Aurora’s heart but for the rest of the week all we heard about was that no version of Peter Pan ever had Hook having magic, and then the next ep showed us how he got the one-time enchantment on the hook.
The writers aren’t perfect, but they do tie up a LOT of the dangling threads, even if it sometimes takes awhile to get back to it. It’s not a procedural case of the week type thing where there would legitimately be plot holes. We KNOW we’re getting the flashback stories in bits & pieces, so while a lot of other stuff we’d love to see gets cut for time reasons, the WEAVING OF THREADS happens overtime, out of order, and in surprising ways. It’s part of the charm of the show and unless there’s something completely contradictory (in which case most of us are just waiting around to see how they’re going to explain the discrepancy), I wish people wouldn’t jump all over them, especially for things we’re clearly going to be seeing again ie: Tamara’s taser since it’s her weapon of choice apparently. If they gave each person’s entire story in one dose we wouldn’t have a show. Have a little faith & hope!
As for the rest: SUPER excited about some Hook backstory (hoping to see things that were mentioned in Tallahassee for sure!) and am happy to see young Bae again as I much prefer him to NealFire. Perhaps the transition between the two will help a TON. (I really do adore young Bae). I’m still in the NealFire Pan camp and maybe whatever happened to Bae in Neverland will make me appreciate the older one more, especially if they do go SwanFire for endgame (I liked that idea much more when all we knew was young Bae – kinda torn on if I like it now for what it actually is or just the connections it makes to Rumple at this point).
Hoping for some CaptainSwan moments in this big finale too. There were TOO many threads that hinted at interesting events in Neverland and the possibility of CaptainSwan from their interactions in Tallahassee and I want to see those play out bigtime. We haven’t gotten much at all since then for them without Cora interfering by being there and now that Neverland is on the horizon Hook should be more central to whatever is going on with the main characters including Emma, especially if the finale is Hook-backstory-centric. It’s about time, he’s been around all season! (And don’t bother giving me any of that hate-all-the-new-characters stuff, he was always meant to be a part of it from the beginning, it was a rights issue, not a shiny new toy and he’s been absent for weeks).
Looks like they’re planning to wrap around to the beginning of the season by bringing M/A/P back so yay for that, we haven’t seen any of them in awhile and that all needs to be wrapped up. VERY excited to see how they get Phillip back in this because I was adament from Broken that he could be saved and they’ve been gone long enough – one of the main criticisms has been that new characters get brought in and disappear – then we finally get a nice long story arc and they get criticized for that too, but these threads have been dangling all season and I for one am excited to reunite Phillip with Aurora (what is their ship name? He was on for so short a time I don’t even know! But they’ve been through enough trying to save each other, time to see them reunited).
Hoping SB won’t be gone for good as I’ve grown rather attached to it but I am looking forward to exploring other possibilities like time spent in Neverland and eventually (hopefully) rebuilding FTL. They’ve mentioned multiple times that various characters are keen to go back and rebuild and I’d love to see that. Especially since the glimpse we got of present day FTL has a lot of work to do. Would love to see Charming get to walk back through the nursery since Snow & Emma did, and I can’t wait to see Henry there, getting to see it all for the first time. Just gotta avoid those ogres.
Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.