stopped watching Glee ages ago, but last night they covered No One is Alone which is from my favourite musical, Into the Woods. Every time I listen to their haunting version and I hear the line “Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood,” I just think of Neal, that he did exactly that in both in the figurative and literal sense.
Perfect song choice. 🙁
This is what I’m afraid of. Having Neal back for a brief moment only to kill him AGAIN. It just too contrived for me. It’s bad enough that Neal died. How many times are they going to bring him back and rip him away? It just renders the story even more convoluted. The Dead is dead motto is pretty much a joke at this point. They’ve ruined it with reviving Rumple. Either he stay dead or he stays alive. (Even though I much prefer alive) And have something that sticks and make your point across that you aren’t toying with the viewers. I fear another revival would just cheapen his character even further. I’m keeping a small bit of flame of hope that they might revive him permanently. But I’ve also resign to the fact that they’ve botched the death episode beyond repair if they’re keeping him dead, without any sort of resolution. They should have had more of the conclusion to his arc then a mere 1-2 min interaction with everyone.
Exactly. Don’t bring him back and then rip him away from me again.
Hi everyone! This is my first post but have been a fan here since season 1. I’m not a social media person. Have no twitter, tumblr, Facebook nor am I familiar with forums such as these (coding etc) but I am a HUGE OUAT fan. Or was. I will finish this season with the hope that Neal is alive. If he is not I cannot imagine continuing to watch next season. This forum has been so wonderful to come to since “Quiet Minds”. I have found anger when I needed to be angry. Sadness when I wanted to be sad. And hope when that’s all I had left. So thank you!
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I ship Emma and Neal. Not because it’s all head canon but because it’s how the writers WERE writing the show. They are/were obviously TL’s. But regardless of my ship, Neal dying not only destroys Emma’s happy ending but the entire crazy rumple/charming/evil queen family. How can rumple and belle truly have their happy ending if Bae is gone? How can the charmings have theirs if their daughter, the savior, who has sacrificed everything, does not get her happy ending? How can Henry have his happy ending if he doesn’t have his father? How can Regina have hers if the most important person in her life (Henry) can’t have his? Neal is so much at the center of this story, of these characters that for him to be dead changes everything we have been shown and told. It changes every arc, every character and the entire story to something unrecognizable.
Perfectly stated
I do not need Neal and Emma to end up together to be a satisfied fan. But I do need Neal to live
Yup. If SF wasn’t going to sail, then I’d have lived inside my headcanon…but killing him was just cruel. Especially in the manner in which they did it
There are too many kitchen table conversations that haven’t happened.
I can tell you’ve been lurking for awhile. 🙂
Considering his importance to every aspect of the story and characters it would be nice to focus on him for a while.
Agreed.
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