@Phee wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of Peter Pan being Henry’s father. I’m still hung up on Emma’s mention of pumpkin pie in the story about him, (and then they had Henry bring her a piece of pumpkin pie too, so it wasn’t just a throw away line), and how it could relate to Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. And there’d be a certain delightful irony if Peter Pan, the boy who couldn’t grow up, (until he stayed in our world one day and began to age), fathered a child who became the only boy in Storybrooke who did grow up.
True, his name could be Peter, but that could also be a clue that he was a married man when he was with Emma, not necessarily that he’s Peter Pan. Or like in Lil’Red’s anthology, pumpkins could also be a reference to Jack O’Lanterns.
My problem with Bae being Peter Pan is that I would feel like it’s a retcon if he went to a world that did have magic. Now if they had covered Bae being Peter Pan last season or at least made references to the possibility that where Bae landed might have taken in some place magical once Rumple failed his part of his bargain, I wouldn’t think of it as a major retcon. However, I don’t feel that they did, so while I was not one of the sizable percentage of fans, at least on the Internet, that thought it was a major retcon in “The Stranger” that the wardrobe was actually able to hold 2 people because it happened in the same season that we first learned about the wardrobe, I do feel that Bae going to any world that had magic would be a major retcon at this point.
Not only that, I’m not sure how he would be able to realm jump, I guess because he’s Peter Pan? There’s a lot of other details like that at least for me that wouldn’t quite work out if Bae was Peter Pan. Assuming that he’s Peter Pan and also Henry’s father, I guess I really haven’t seen any clues that point to Emma being his Wendy at all. Or did he decide to leave Neverland and come here, and that’s when he met with Emma? How much time would he have spent in Neverland overall because I don’t want him to be that much older than Emma or maybe that much younger still? Why did he leave Neverland since it seems like a perfect place for a Lost Boy?
I know that they could answer all those questions, but I don’t know it just seems more straightforward and easier just to have Bae have landed in our world and end up in a similar situation like Emma was in being kept in care and putting up walls because of his abandonment issues that way if he is her true love, they’ll have a lot in common that no one else does.