I don’t ship SF because I want them bam happy ending together. I want to SEE their story, I want to see them deal with the stuff that A&E so carefully set up. They SHOULD have conversations about the hurt. They SHOULD have conversations about how to move past that. How can Emma deal with the fact that she still loves the person who hurt her so badly? How can Neal deal with his self-hatred over the situation? What about her reacting to the fact that she sort of wished him dead in Neverland – and that she had a hand in his death in the woods? WHERE IS THIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. How about the fact that we NEVER saw Neal react to the fact that his kid was given up for adoption and just recently located? And, most stuck in my craw at the moment, I would reallllly like to see him fulfill his promise to see his kid again. He was supposed to break the cycle of abandonment… that doesn’t mean “go die in the EF to resurrect your Dad,” that means BE AROUND TO BE A PARENT to your son.
PREACH!!! You’ll notice I haven’t taken Neal’s 311 quote out of my sig. That’s not just laziness over not having edited my sig, it’s because THAT LINE HAS TO HAVE MEANT SOMETHING, and if it didn’t, then I’m with you, not enough rage emoticons in the universe to adequately express how I feel about it. That line was about Neal’s character journey, and his strength, and his resolve to break the abandonment cycle, and if they just tossed his entire characterisation down the drain, then I can’t even! I just refuse to believe that they’d toss it away so completely and so quickly. It makes no sense.