Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

I like how he almost says Emma and Neal are meant to be in every version of the show

It’s almost like it was fate, destiny, or whatever you want to call it, that brought Emma and Baelfire together and that they were meant to meet for a reason, no matter what. As usual, Adam’s explanation makes no sense, however, because had Bae not met the Darlings then he wouldn’t have gone to NL and he would’ve passed away in Victorian London and never made it back to the EF. Bae needed to be in NL for a century and then return to the EF in order to meet Emma and father Henry. While I like that Adam pretty much confirmed that Emma and Baelfire were fated to fall in love and have Henry no matter what, as usual, Adam’s (lack of a coherent) explanation doesn’t do the story justice.

Moreover, I also think that perhaps Baelfire was always meant to die (as Emma told Henry in True North that his dad had died a hero). However, I also think it was supposed to be Baelfire, not Hook, who was then meant to be resurrected (as the name Baelfire from Wheel of Time strongly suggests). Emma and Bae were strongly paralleled with Will and Anastasia (whose name means resurrection in Russian and Greek).