*sigh* Sorry fellow SFers. My emotions got the better of me after seeing
poor Neal getting tortured like that and clutching his chest in pain right in front of Emma no less. UGH! After seeing OUATiW episode, SF strongly parallels Will/Anna’s. Now that Neal is MISSING a heart. I’m holding on to hope that it’s a misdirect and WW still needs Neal’s heart as a key ingredient for something. So she can’t kill him just yet or it won’t work. I think it would be so cruel that after the talk Emma had with Hook about truly being in love with Walsh and saw him taken away from her, then to have WW crush Neal’s heart in front of Emma, would be beyond salvage of Emma’s hopes of having some love in her life. Hook is practically throwing himself at Emma and yet she still doesn’t take the bait, not after all they’ve been through in Neverland, the kiss, NYC, nothing…. Also since Neal is missing his heart he can’t love and it would be epic (although purely wishful thinking on my part) if Emma goes on a quest to find his heart again and discover their love again and be the one to make Neal love again. Even when she’s lost faith in love. That would cause Emma to push and strive to hope and faith, when she had very little of it before. I think that would truly be an epic romantic journey for the two, that can open up the theme of reconciliation, trust, second chances, etc… That type of plot my fuel Emma’s hope’s of happy ending and “home” Now I have some cautious optimism after I’ve processed what happened.
UGH waiting another week will be torture though… I know tumblr is going to be filled with the spoiler of doom topics that I just don’t have the heart to look at.