“I’ll do what needs to be done.” Got a really bad dark vibe from that line.
And then he says that he won’t be killing lost boys. Parents will do they need to do: but murder is a line he’s not crossing.
Yes, please consider the actual context of that whole part of the conversation, and Neal’s full statement. Taking one short soundgrab from it is rather unfair IMO.
Rumple: As noble as their intentions may be, they don’t have the stomach to do what needs to be done.
Neal: Like what you did to these boys? They’re not, uh…
Rumple: No, they’re just sleeping, for now.
Neal: Let’s leave it that way, OK.
Rumple: You don’t have the stomach either
Neal: I’ll do what needs to be done, but killing Lost Boys, we don’t have to do that.
Rumple: We shall see.
Neal was glaring when he was about to question Rumple about whether or not the boys were dead, and he couldn’t even bring himself to say the word “dead”, so he’s quite obviously not in favour of just going dark and rushing in and shooting the place up. Those boys are all probably people that Neal knows by name and spent a lot of time with, so even if they’re not his favourite people, they’re still familiar human beings, and Neal isn’t the type to just go in an slaughter them the way that Darker One Rumple would.
Daddy Rumple and Baby Bae are going on an adventure Together I may not survive next episode
Daddy Rumple and Baby Bae, awwww bless. <3 I'm REALLY looking forward to all of their interaction in this ep.
Speculation on “other way”:I think it probably has something to do with the fact that Nealfire has escaped NL before. But what he doesn’t realize, of course, was that it was engineered by PP. So Neal thinks he can get everyone out of NL the same way he did, but like we saw in the promo, PP tells him: “there is no escaping NL.” I bet Neal learns that it was PP who let him go, rather than Neal actually escaping.
Yes!
I am hoping Neal will check Rumple rather than Rumple dragging Neal down, just as I hope for all our Goodies not to descend while our Baddies reform. I don’t want them to all meet in the middle in morality, as I am hoping for more of an upward shift overall. The writers probably will not do that, so perhaps they are planning to have a spiral of moral collapse. We did see sweet Henry shooting an arrow at Pan. Emma and Charming holding knives at people’s throats (but they backed off).NL is bringing out the darkness in everyone I think, but I had some small hope from seeing that scene, that they will beat that darkness.
Agreed with all of that.