Rumplesgirl, my hope is rising (although I am hesitant) for a happy ending for Baelfire and Emma. When I saw Wonderland last night and I heard how it wasn’t Anastasia’s time to die it reminded me of the movie Heaven Can Wait, where the guy dies before his time and is put back in the body of someone else, then he is moved to another body (football player) where he loses his memory of the woman he loves. Before he is moved to the body of the football player he says goodbye to the one he loves and tells her that if she meets another man and sees a certain look in his eyes for her to give him a chance. At the end of the movie she thinks he is dead and meets the quarterback who asks her out for coffee. The lights go out and he tells her not to be afraid, she realizes that something feels familiar and goes out with him to get coffee. I was reminded of the same scene when Baelfire died. He tells Emma to find Tallahassee even if it is with someone else, that he would be watching over her from somewhere and to be happy.
I’ve also seen a lot of visual clues to the movie, the well where Cinderella’s husband disappears, Maleficent looks like Diane Cannon in the movie, and then there have been all the cloud promo pictures. In the original movie, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, the guy is a boxer. I remember watching the Wicked is Coming promo and wondering why Neal had on a knit cap like Rocky (a boxer). In the 70′s movie the guy is a football player who plays a clarinet. Baelfire is kicking around a football (soccer type ball) and then in The Return, Rumple sets the ball up on a shelf near a clarinet.
Maybe I am grasping for straws but I am starting to have hope that Baelfire will be returning. If he returns in a different body like the movie Heaven Can Wait, it would set up a new love story awakening between Baelfire and Emma and it would also fit the description given by Kitsis and Horowitz where they said a character dies for real at which point his or her portrayer will leave the show. Knowing them they could mesh a Heaven Can Wait type story with a Superhero Human Torch type story. In the original TVLine interview where the writers announced the death of a character the exact wording of the article is, “tell TVLine exclusively that the “fantastical” series…” Probably just coincidence but could be another subtle nod to the Fantastic Four.
Comic book characters got me to thinking. It would be really funny if Zelena ended up being She Hulk. That would make me laugh. I don’t think she is but I was just imagining a fight between Zelena and Red…She Hulk vs Wolferine. lol
I don’t think Baelfire is gone for good. I am starting to have a lot more hope.
Thanks so much for the cocoa and cookies. Let’s all circle around the bonfire…the balefire and raise a toast to Bae.
I forgot one important thing. In Heaven Can Wait, Joe is riding his bicycle when he is prematurely taken out of his body which is then cremated..so he has a soul without a body. When they place him in a new body they pick a temporary body of a man who had just been killed by being shot (by his wife and her lover) and then the body fell into a well. Joe enters this body and climbs out of the well. When Neal was shot by his fiance he fell through a portal. Am I the only person who wondered what happened to his wound. It is like he falls through the portal with a gunshot and the next thing you know he is walking around with Mulan talking about movies like nothing happened. In the original Here Comes Mr. Jordan they drown the guy in a bathtub before his body is given to Joe Pendleton. Wonderland had the Jafar drowning. Also in the original movie Joe Pendleton is a pilot of a small plane flying to New York when a cable breaks and he is taken out of his body too quickly, thus needing a new body. I was thinking about that small plane that hangs in Henry’s room.
I started out just hoping that I could find some kind of hope and now I am getting so hopeful. Bae lives…whether the writers write it or not…Bae lives.
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