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A and E call killing Neal bold storytelling

Actually those were MRJ’s words that he gave in the exit interview via Twitter. I think he meant “bold” in an ironic sort of way.

https://twitter.com/mraymondjames/status/450718900821303296

https://twitter.com/MRaymondJames/status/450719007759278080

Would MRJ and Bobby Carlyle have liked it to have been otherwise? Of course. Killing off Neal in favor of Hook was only “bold” in the sense that it was an audacious decision to kill off the very reason for the entire narrative. Rumple losing and finding Bae again was at the very heart of the show; killing off the heart of the narrative shows an impudent lack of respect for the writers’ own original narrative. It’s comparable to Zelena’s decision to cut off her own hand; only the writers don’t have the magical talent to simply put the story back together.

It’s especially painful this season because you tell that it was supposed to be Neal doing a lot of what Hook is doing (though with more grace and love). It would have made for really beautiful, logical, and circular storytelling.

I don’t think Neal fans are only grousing over the fact that A&E killed off the character at the heart of OUAT. It’s that what came to replace it makes Baywatch look like Tolstoy.

LOL! It’s really not even about shipping; it’s about the loss of a core character for gratuitous reasons. Just look at last week’s choice to wake up Hero!Rumple with Hook’s cutlass (which wasn’t even the same sword he used in 2×4) versus how poetic it could’ve been to have used Bae’s shawl. The choice of using Bae’s baby blanket to usher forward his father’s lost humanity would have been deeply symbolic since Bae was that little light that kept his father human.

and i praise this fans, that are doing this, i mean they dont gain anything with this, they in fact lose free time, yet they still do it, and better than professional writers that win millions per year to write a show that can be compared to the worst type of fan fiction.

Yes! Kudos to this amazing writer for writing the AU.