That’s just a theory, until we know where everyone’s contracts stand.
Yeah, I think if Bobby leaves, this will have a domino effect, not just because all the dearies will decamp too, but because Rumple’s character’s so axial to everyone’s story that if they take him out, very little ‘core’ content will be left, not just in terms of characters, but in terms of world building.
I wish A&E would write S6 as the final, and if S7 gets the green light, they do a post-scriptum. Almost like a “20 Years After” to Dumas’ Three Musketeers. But I think they are too arrogant and creatively bankrupt to not just try to squeeze the last juices out of whatever’s left of OUAT at that point. And you just know they won’t resist pairing Regina with Hyde (or whoever else) because that’s all it seems A&E think their audience cares about. If this happens, I predict a moment of “self-realization” for Regina, who realizes that she didn’t really love Robin, it was her trying to be her best self, and she actually likes her men with a bit more rot at their core. (Can’t you just see A&E trying to sell you that like it’s the new iPhone? Srsly)
He first saw her when she was 14 because that’s the age she was chosen as “the slayer” and in the season 2 finale Buffy says her mother has been washing blood out of her clothes for two years.
Yup. All the vampire stories seem to have that fundamental element of creepiness to them, and the CS pairing is just another instantiation of that. But then again, RumBelle also has that creep factor potential, with the major difference that Bobby’s interpretation of Rumple really plays down the leery factor, in particular with Belle. Colin, on the other hand, sort of plays it up.