So I did my rewatch. I’m sure I will post several times because I have so many thoughts and feels I don’t even know where to begin.
First, I honestly wasn’t bothered by the baby being named Neal – in some ways it was actually sweet. I wasn’t gushing emotional tears over tears over it, but it is common to name babies after family members so it wouldn’t be unheard of for the kid to be named Neal. Yes, he did something in the past that contributed to Emma’s trust issues but I think they really tried to show this season that Emma had forgiven Neal and moved him, and accepted him as a friend and family member since he was Henry’s father. I also think it is interesting since Rumple created the curse to find Bae, Emma was the savior who was the product of True Love who was planned to break the curse so he could leave SB to get Bae, and then after Bae died the very same couple that were brought together to produce the savior produced another child that they named to HONOR Rumple’s son, Bae. It seems like everything came full circle. I thought it was a sweet gesture to Rumple who had lost his child that they honored Bae.
After seeing the PERFECT way they did the kiss at the end of the movie, I feel like I have been putting too much emphasis on needing to see a TLK break a curse. One of the best kisses on the show was when Snow and Charming found each other after the curse was broken and that was NOT a TLK that broke a curse. The CS kiss last night was amazing and I honestly was glad it wasn’t done as a TLK. I LOVED that it was a completely MUTUAL kiss that wasn’t driven by one person needing to save the other. Killy has known FOREVER that he loves Emma and she is finally in a place where she can allow herself (and him) to know that she loves him too – that what’s made the kiss perfect. They BOTH wanted to kiss each other and KEEP kissing each other.
And again, I LOVED that it was Emma realizing that she missed her parents that made her get her magic back – but even more I loved the look of pride on Killy’s face when he pointed out to her that she did it. Killy has ALWAYS been Emma’s biggest cheerleader – he is perfectly comfortable with her being the savior and having magic, he sees his job as encouraging her, motivating her when she needs it, and picking her up when she needs a shoulder to cry on. I do think he had FUN getting to kind of “guide” her through “his” world when they got to the EF but quickly pointed that she is a natural there, after calling her “your majesty” since she truly is a princess (“his princess” – swoon). He doesn’t even get bothered when he wants to be able to “rescue” her and she makes the comment about the only person who saves her is herself, because he knows it’s true. He knows his job is to support and love her – that’s what she need. Although I do think he recognized she would have been greatly affected when she learned that he sacrificed his ship for her which is why he did NOT want her to know – being a man of good form I think he was afraid her knowing that BEFORE she decided to stay would have swayed her decision and he would have viewed that as trickery which he promised he would not use to win her heart. He told her, he would win it because she wanted him. By that point, I think he knew pretty clearly that she loved him – she had been so open with him in the EF, flirted with him, quietly accepted his comparisons between the two of them and her parents, etc. But he still let her make the first move – she leaned forward to kiss him first but he leaned in to meet her for the kiss.
I am seriously dying of happiness!!!!