@charming wrote:
I have loathed the idea that Bae is Henry’s Dad since someone brought it up as a theory and has now spread like a skin infection. Yes, it seems to be headed to the fact that it can be true. It is a shark jumper in my opinion. Once you start making everyone related or everyone on the show starts dating and marrying on another; this seems to be true throughout TV history.
All the main characters are already interconnected to each other, and then the minor characters become interconnected to all the other main characters after interacting with just one main character, so for me Bae being Henry’s father wouldn’t put the show into shark jumping territory.
I mean Rumple helped but didn’t force Regina down the Evil Queen path that she chose, probably in order to enact the Curse he created to find his son. He’s helped Snowing become a couple, so that their child Emma could break the Curse he created to find his son. He helped procure Henry for Regina while he was under his own Curse. So even if he’s not Henry’s grandpa, he’s always been connected to all the other core cast members. Obviously, Regina and the Charmings have been connected with each other ever since Regina rescued Snow from her runaway horse. So these connections aren’t going away soon. That’s why I don’t think Bae being Henry’s father would be overkill, and in fact for me, it would fit right in with all the other connections. Plus, it gives everyone a reason to join together against a common foe. Rumple might help save Henry against Cora and/or Hook because he doesn’t want either of those two around, but then again, Rumple being Rumple, he could just stay out of it or pick whatever side was better for him at the time not necessarily the Charmings. However, if Henry is his grandson, then he definitely has to become allies with the Charmings and probably Regina at the time against Cora and Hook.
Further, there’s also the criticism that it’s too coincidental, but again I think it relates back to everyone being connected. Like Rumple procuring Henry for Regina was awfully coincidental, but it’s a show about fate, destiny, and fairy tales, so under that context Bae meeting up with Emma, and being the father of Henry makes a lot of sense because she was the Cursebreaker, and he’s the reason for the Curse. Plus, magical people may just feel a certain pull towards one another in our world that lead them to each other.