Reply To: Malcolm and Peter Pan

RIP Team Brothers. Hello Team DaddyPan

My thought process for this episode was:

1. gee PapaStiltskin is a piece of work. Feckless would be the best word for him.
2. But he tries to give him a good home – recognising that it won’t be with him! (side note: the spinsters cracked me up the way they finished each other’s sentences)
3. The doll – give him a name, he can be whoever you want to be. OK, maybe Rumple imagines Peter Pan into being via the doll?
4. Off to Neverland…. as soon as Malcom started raving about this place he went in his dreams as a boy, I could feel TeamBrothers dying as it seemed inevitable that DaddyPan was true

And you know what? I’m ok with that. I think from a storytelling perspective it was brilliant. Rumple’s always been clear: his father was a coward who abandoned him. Well…. hello! Letting a shadow take your child so you can be a boy again just so you can fly is a pretty epic level of abandonment!!

Then the Pandora’s Box…. oh the feels. RIGHT IN THE FEELS!!!