the graveyard scene and Charming’s “maybe we should have named him Balefire” all read as A and E knowing that they got tons of backlash over Neal’s death, Rumple not mourning him, and naming the baby Neal and are basically trying to give the audience what they want in one fell swoop. The problem is that it reads as them trying to do this instead of it making sense in universe. Charming’s comment about re-naming the baby irks me because it’s like A and E are making fun of their fans and how felt about the baby name
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