OMG guys, it’s 5:30AM, insomnia strikes and I just had an epiphany. We’ve been looking at this alllll backwards, or at least, I have not seen anyone say this. Regarding the characters, who the WoO parallels & the finale – it’s so obvious!!
It’s not Emma who is Dorothy – it’s Neal!! Why do I say this? What has Neal’s 3B been about so far? Finding his way home to Emma and Henry. In the MGM film, who does Dorothy find her way back to? Aunt Em & Uncle Henry… because THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!
I really just want to face palm, here, bevause that is so freaking exceedingly obvious I feel like no one has seen the forest for the trees. Guess it’s the spoiler of doom clouding everyone’s judgement.
The only question that leaves for me then is, if Neal is not the heart, as so many have speculated, then who is?
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...