Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Rainbow]

Neal was too human for their fantasy. At the start so was Emma which is part of why they worked together as a couple. Both characters were from a fantasy world but had spent too much time in the real to ever fully dissociate from the “real” world.

 

This is also use for many Anti Neal persons, that OUAT is a story about fairy tales, and even tho Emma is original, she is the Savior, so haves a title of her own, and Hnery is also original but now has the title of Truest Believer, and that Neal being a Lost boy is not enough for OUAT fantasy world, maybe that was the problem, the writers could have written to make neal some new fantasy character, and you know what, maybe MRJ did confrom them about Neal, last yesr at SDCC, the show had this vibe of seing things in one epi and only like many epis after you would see why the character did it,  i think he described  it like”the future will define the present” or something like that.

One thing about MRJ, and he said it on a True blood interview:”Research is something that I really enjoy as an actor and it’s something that I really throw myself into. I don’t want to leave any stone unturned, so there’s no way I would have gone on set having not known the arc of the character and the direction he was going to go.”  So in this i see him making lost of questions about Neal, and of course the writers not knowing what to say, bc they dont plan things forehand, and maybe i do see the rumour( not the trailers one) that the actor was a bit disapointed with his character being true, so maybe more questionable, that would fit in many things, of quiting, being fired, if all the actor projects after ouat werent connected and trace back to Disney, so and if is next project after The finest hours is also on disney( bc now i only have like 90% sure) that his contract was very extensive maybe with the network and not with show, and the writers decided the easy way( not so sure anymore Disney/ABC ask them to kill Neal, they may asked cS).