I just hope they explain all these characters absences in a way that doesn’t mean they died. Where Emma is still Hook’s wife and Belle is still Rumple’s.
Agreed. Or permanently separated from one another. Otherwise the “New Beginning” for Emma et al. championed in the last episode will have been a cruel joke.
Permanantly separated would be too cruel. They need to do it to where we have hope that they’ll be together one day. Don’t ruin all the happy endings you put in place.