Actually Sarah, I think 4×09 maybe Rumple centric, because I just remembered a very old interview Bobby did where he said by episode 9, things get bad for Rumple..
I saw one theory from a SQ shipper, who thinks Rumple hid the dagger to kill Hook (promised revenge to Neal’s grave, and maybe he blames Hook because the reason for the bean was for Rumple who went bad after Milah left him). I saw another theorizing Humpty Dumpty. Maybe it’s more of an analogy for either Killian, or Rumple. I guess we’ll just have to see.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall (Emma’s wall?)
Huumpty Dumpty had a great FALL (the theory that Killian goes bad after what the Snow Queen might do to him, i.e. Kai from the story, whose vision of things good and beautiful was distorted)
All the King’s horses, and all the King’s men (David’s family and friends, with inclusion of Emma)
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Hmm. Let me preface this by saying that it’s definitely not all SQ shippers, but overall in my experience, a lot of the Hook hate comes from them. So my first instinct is to say that it could be just wishful thinking from that person.
But overall wow, that’s a very elaborate theory! Did the Humpty Dumpty thing come from anywhere in particular? I feel like we would’ve seen or heard something from that…I’ve seen some photos from filming of that episode–I tried to post the pictures earlier but the spoiler tags didn’t work and since they were quite spoilery, I quickly edited the post and deleted them. But the first one can be found here, and then there are more with those two. So what the heck could Hook and Rumple be doing hanging out together while Hook has the sorcerer’s hat?! And he has the hook back…hmm.
But yeah, I’m not particularly worried about any more of the main characters dying at the moment…honestly, I’d still guess that MRJ wanted to leave and that’s why they decided to get rid of Neal. It really didn’t make that much sense, and it seemed so abrupt, especially because he wasn’t even in the two episodes before he died either, if I remember correctly. And just out of curiosity, I checked out his IMDB page a while back and I think Once is the longest he’s worked on one project–maybe he just got bored and wanted to move on. And it’s not like Neal’s storyline was all that exciting at that point either. Pure speculation on my part though, of course.
Less than 24 hours! And it sounds like this should be a good one for CS! 😉