Maybe that’s all part of cheering a child up. I mean isn’t that what family will do? Try to cheer up the child anyway they know how. Including even doing something as ludicrous as teaching the kid how to drive. Anything to try to make him move on?
From the death of his father 24 hours before? When Archie died, they let him sit in MM’s room and mourn and make phone calls to Archie’s voice mail.
Nothing makes a child move on from loosing a parent–especially that young. Snow and Charming both lost their parents young (we assume Charming’s father died a few years before The Shepard) so they know how hard that would be. It’s not something that can be fixed with a car ride and a hug.
And if that’s what the writers are trying to do (sorry you lost your father, here learn to drive at the age of 13 while a wicked witch is terrorizing your adoptive mom and our town and has your other grandfather captive) then…we’ve got bigger problems than a supposed funeral scene.
also, think about this: if this was an actual filming set with a funeral, why haven’t we heard about it elsewhere? VCF? Canadagraphics? Yappity? Katman? Those are our “go-to’s” and not a peep about a funeral set.
I’m not saying it’s not a funeral, I’m saying I’m highly suspicious about the scene as a whole.