@Surayya wrote:
I’m thinking since no-one will see it coming & with so many star wars themes coming up- it’s to do with Henry’s future- be it good or bad…. Maybe it goes along the lines of ‘if events take course A) Henry goes all Darth Vader on EF’s butt- if they go course B) He goes all Jedi type thing- this could easily hold true for it being about Emma as well.
After all who would suspect Henry (or Emma) could turn Dark- It happened to Anakin 😉
It could come down to either something Rumple does or doesn’t do, Oh- or maybe it comes down to Henry learning magic or not (much like Anakin learning to use the ‘Force’ = him becoming Darth Vader – lol I almost typed Dark One then lol 😳 ) – there is a star wars parallel if there ever was one for SB 😉
This is an excellent point because K&H love Star Wars so much. Plus, I think the influence of Star Wars is so wide reaching that it’s reached this level like the fairy tales and other classic stories that OUaT has borrowed from that it’s not surprising that OUaT would eventually borrow elements from Star Wars. Of course, Star Wars was heavily influenced by a hodge podge of material like OUaT too, so they’re also both borrowing from the same original sources, which makes sense in these kind of hero’s journeys stories.
However, I think the prophecy is about how Henry will turn bad given all the spoilers talking about how chilling the last 30 seconds are and how some of the reviews have mentioned that something ominous happens concerning Henry. Emma is already cast in the role of the Savior, so I don’t think they would have her double as both. Plus, as the Savior, it would be more dramatic if there’s some kind of prophecy where she’s the one that must defeat this big bad who turns out to be her own son.
So I think in this case Henry = Anakin in that there’s potential for him to go to the Dark Side in the future, but instead of it being Henry that hears the prophecy like how Anakin sees Padme’s death which he inadvertently caused by trying to prevent it, it will be Rumple that sees/hears this glimpse of the future.
We have seen him reject what Regina does with magic in “We Are Both”, but we also see later on in the season that he actually is very fascinated by magic when Regina isn’t using it directly against someone for her evil purposes. I think that was to introduce a slippery slope that could happen with Henry since I don’t think he would outright reject magic like his father Neal would, and he could be in a position like his Grandfatherstiltskin was when he became the Dark One, where he thinks that by learning magic he could help people, not realizing that magic always comes with a price and that his good intentions could lead him down the wrong path like it did for Grandpastiltskin.
Plus, I think it fits in with the idea of nurture vs. nature that we’ve seen especially in the last episode and now in “Manhattan”. If he had been raised by Neal and Emma, who I would assume would have cleaned up their lives, although one never knows if they would have actually been able to, maybe he wouldn’t have taken this path. Not that I want to open up the can of adoption parents vs. biological parents, but I do think that it is something they’ll have viewers ponder in the future.
The only problem is that I think due to Jared Gilmore’s age that if we do see this “evil” Henry story line, I think he’s too young to pull it off. I don’t think they would dare to recast the actor either because I think the show would lose it’s heart, and many fans would hate the idea. So I think that we’ll see an older evil Henry either through glimpses of the future or by doing more with the time travel angle. If Bae isn’t Peter Pan, then we’ve already seen that Henry’s father has time traveled. So maybe Henry tries to stop something from happening thinking he’s saving everyone and gets caught up in time traveling, but eventually turns down this dark path. We already have the magic beans that may be able to transport people through time if Bae isn’t Peter, so there’s already a device in Storybrooke that Henry could use to do this.