Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[dontstopbelievin]

I’ve had a really hard time smashing my hope down the last few days, so I’m no help. I’ve finally gotten to the point where I’ve accepted I won’t be so far into RG’s tent as I’d like to be at finale, and worked instead on detaching. I was doing pretty well this past weekend – being sad and low and “nevermind, I forgot they were all stupid” but then we end up with junk like pizza and lobsters and compasses and I just… can’t, you know? I can’t not see what I see. To me, personally, I see a few too many pieces of the puzzle having been intentionally aligned to be like, “Yeah. It’s all in my head.” Or to be like, “Yeah, this stuff exists, but it’s remnants of the fact that SF was original end game, but now they have changed course.” There is too much stuff, too far into the episodes (well past 315) for me to genuinely sell myself on that. (I’d like to buy a teenage apartment-hunting car theif for $200, Alex?)

BTW what has ever given Henry logical reason to think Emma would sleep in her car? What an odd statement to make, taken from that angle. Anyways.

All I can do is try to prepare myself for the possibility that despite all that I clearly see, we are still not getting what we want. Henry is just being Henry, wise beyond his years. Compass is just a nod to the directional witches of Oz, Emma going thru to find her “home” has no bearing on compasses directing her home in S2, being significant in Tallahassee (“Home”) or directing two convenience-store-thieving lost kids home in 1×09. Pizza is just a quintessential NY thing. Pendant return is just to pacify the fans. Anti-Hook stance is just for dramatic effect when they turn it. Etc etc etc.

I don’t truly believe those things, but I have to try to make myself. The potential for having another night like the one after 315 is too great otherwise, and I still haven’t gotten the tear stains out of my pillow. 😉

I think Ranisha says it best – there is WILL and there is WAY. Way is cake; they’ve had way since 315 itself. Hi, that guy dying in your arms? TLK is a really legit thing to try – maybe his Dad (who totally ships y’all!) could suggest it. If we can burn coconuts and split hearts and and and, a little TLK is a cakewalk. But no. We will instead bust out Timey Wimey things and alter the past… where we enlist help from the ONE guy invested more than anyone in ensuring the guy stays alive. There’s a way, oh, there’s a way.

But is there a will? I posture that there is. I am slowly becoming attached to the notion this story was long-planned; it’s alluded to in Pilot and pulls together a few series-long breadcrumbs. So A&E themselves may reside on team SF and see this as an amazing culmination of an epic love story – she turns back time to save him, yo! – without realizing how much it SUCKS to sit on this side. I can appreciate a lot of pieces of this story, if I look at it from the perspective of “knowing” that’s where it’s headed.

But if they *don’t* have that will, no amount of logic will make it so. If MRJ wanted out (no concrete evidence of that) or they wanted to go CS (which sure isn’t the story they are telling,) then dead is dead and here we sit. THAT is the piece I will tell myself, over and over, for the next four days. Because the STORY tells me MO322 is the logical conclusion. But believing that and then ending up at Sad Town would be a dangerous situation, indeed.