An Under Appreciated Moment from the Winter Finale

Moreso than a LOST Easter Egg, I think having him say, “he’s not dead, he’s just lost,” is foreshadowing for what will be happening to Rumple himself in the stabbing scene.

I don’t think a Rumbelle baby will happen until the very end of the show, if it happens at all. Just like Adam and Eddy have implied that a Rumbelle wedding and having them live happily ever after would spell the end of the show, a baby would be part of that. I could see Belle finding out in the last episode ever that she’s pregnant, and there could be a lovely moment where Rumple has hope for the stable family unit that fell apart on him last time. It would bookend the entire show nicely, because it began with the casting of the Curse that he needed to try and reconcile with his child, and it would end with his hope for a better relationship with his next child, having learned from all the mistakes of his first shot at it, which we’ve seen play out over the course of the show.

Also, they’ll almost certainly write the Gosh pregnancy into the show and give Snowing a baby, and two babies within a season of each other would be overkill.

The HenryPan and Felix scene at the beginning of the episode is an underappreciated moment for me.

First of all, Felix and HenryPan are so efficient in collecting all the ingredients they need for the curse, Felix said that Pan had outwitted Regina in “less than a day” so that’s including actually getting a hold of the curse. So if Felix and PanHenry could get everything they needed to cast the curse in such a short amount of time, what took Regina so long to cast the original curse from when she threatened Snowing at their wedding?

Secondly, who Pan loves. Felix assumed it was Rumple initially, then after Pan said no, Felix had to ask who it was that Pan loved. Regina’s dad knew he was the thing Regina loved most, so why did Felix not know he was the thing Pan loved most. Of course the moment Pan started talking about loyalty, Felix had his “oh crap” moment. I think it says something about Felix’s character that he was so loyal to Pan yet didn’t think he meant anything to Pan.