I would actually be on board with him having to survive a nightmare. I think it’s (not exactly) odd that they’d throw the “flypaper for nightmares” line in there. I know he said it, and that was their thing.. but she could have said anything else, including “He still has this thing?” or whatever.
Agreed. An it was the part of the “dreamcatcher” moment that didn’t parallel almost directly to Manhattan.
It would make sense in a foreshadowing sense that it will play a much larger role than simply something from the past. Maybe she uses it to communicate with him while he’s in said “nightmare”? Interesting thoughts.
It might also be significant that Emma referred to her former life as “a really good dream.” and what do dreamcatchers do? Ensure that you have really good dreams. Extend the metaphor: Neal is that whom Emma will have a really good dream/happy ending/the life she’s always wanted.
I really love when some of the folks on Tumblr write out long essays because so many people are always so eloquent and well spoken about their subjects. I think that girl (CassidyDearie?) has written several Neal essays this season and they’re always awesome. Thanks for sharing that one today RG!
Yeah she’s great. She also wrote a super long SF meta on why Neal can’t die[/url]. It’s probably like 100 pages back by now lol.
Oh that meta is probably 200+ pages back by now, LOL 😉
Love the metaphors about dreams and foreshadowing to future episodes or events. I can see something like that happening too. Could Neal be under some sort of sleeping curse where he’s stuck in that red room like Henry, Snow, Aurora, and Charming were last year? Hmmmm. I think there are lots of things to think and speculate about regarding that dreamcatcher and how nice is it to actually have SHOW stuff to think and speculate about now???! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀
#HopeforSwanFire 🙂
#MoreBOOMLessGloom