@slurpeez108 wrote:
I like the idea that this is the ONLY way to save August and that it’s specific to him. A lot of people on tumblr are freaking out that now it can be done to any and all of the characters, but let’s keep in mind that this is probably August’s wish. Baelfire and/or Emma won’t take this same option. I think it’s actually a very intriguing plot development which raises all sorts of questions like, if you could start your life all over again, would you? Sure, Emma and Bae have had a lot of pain to deal with, but they also found love with each other and had Henry. There are lots of very interesting thoughts that come from this.
Yes, I’m trying to keep an open mind about it. It does seem like they might have to walk a very line between being too cheesy, and they also have to do it in a way that makes sense for August’s story since obviously they’re not going to have a redo with other characters. (Well possibly at the end of the series with a “it was all a dream” ending or having Emma get to relive her life again from a baby; although, I can’t really see either of those things happening.)
If Eion Bailey wanted out or if there are any truth to those rumors, I think this is better than just killing him off because I think that would be too easy. Plus, this does leave the door open that he could return in more than just flashbacks because if they can make the beanstalk magically grow in less than 100 years, I’m sure they could have something happen to him to cause him to rapidly age. I doubt this will happen because it does seem really dramatic that they’re going so far as to actually deage Pinocchio, but at least there’s a possibility.
I also like it because it opens the door again to what they introduced at the beginning of the season with finding out that Rumple could deage someone. This season has definitely been about regrets and for some characters trying to get back to something that doesn’t exist anymore whether that’s Fairy Tale Land, a past relationship being the way it was before, bringing someone back from the dead, or even just trying to keep Storybrooke the way it was before. I agree that as we see happening with Charming and a few of the other characters wanting to go back to FTL, we’ll see more and more characters wanting to go back to how things used to be. Some won’t ultimately decide to relive their lives or go back to some other past land that they used to live in like Emma and Neal I imagine, but for others, I think there’s going to be a lot of temptations for these characters to be able to resist.
For instance, I have a theory that Grumpy will steal Hook’s ship to try to go back to FTL, or maybe he’ll join Hook if Hook tempts him with the offer to take him back to FTL. He could get desperate enough, and he has been associated with the ocean and ships.
With Rumple, while it seems like he would learn his lesson not to do use magic on Nealfire especially after finding out who Nealfire really is, I could see him being very tempted if his son keeps blocking him out, and he’s not able to be a part of his son’s life. It would be the worst decision for him to make, but he’s made a lot of bad decisions that Neal has already paid the price for, so this could just be another one of those.
Likewise Regina could be in a similar situation with Henry, if she feels like she really has lost for him good depending on how this season goes. I think she will step in at the last minute and save him or someone that he cares about from Cora, but Regina being Regina, it might not be enough that he has relationship with her, but he still lives with the Charmings. If Neal and Emma got close again or it appeared that they were in Regina’s eyes, she might feel she would lose Henry for good if his birth parents reunited, so that could cause her to do something rash to want to go back to what she use to have with Henry.
There’s definitely a lot of story lines that this could open up now, so I am trying to be open minded even if it doesn’t sound like such a great idea.