Sometimes saying something isn’t going to happen CAN be a spoiler. If somebody wants to theorize that something is possible and then everybody is saying no it’s not because they said it’s not gonna happen it’s frustrating. It also messes up theories that prove true by saying it must be wrong because we were told this isn’t gonna happen and sometimes they’re sneaky we weren't gonna see Henry's dad last year but we did see Bae; we're not supposed to see Peter Pan this year but it doesn't rule out he's someone we've already met etc, just won't be identified in such terms. Nothing more frustrating than having to repeatedly explain this is how they tease stuff and it’s not definitive proof that a theory is wrong. Rule nothing out until absolutely necessary!
That being said regarding the BF thing I think they might have gotten a kick out of everybody assuming she was bad but they eventually got to the point where they felt like they needed to defend her: I remember an official podcast where they said she was good and she was mother superior because it put her in a position where she was trying to help people still and couldn't and that was her curse – something along those lines
It’s why if you see me in the live-chats I get so frustrated with people just saying “that’s not gonna happen” whether they know it or not just because they don’t like the theory. No need to kill it off for the rest of the people that want to theorize. (Sometimes they do in fact know because they see more spoilers than I do but in that case they really shouldn’t say anything cause I can see where definitively saying they’ve said it’s not gonna happen is a spoiler to some and sometimes the word spoiler doesn’t mean telling, it literally means ruin that type of fun of guessing without knowing anything other than what we’ve seen so far. It’s a very fine line and that goes for questions answered on twitter as well.)
Back to ratings: hopefully having a chance to live-tweet with some of the cast and writers draws in ratings. I know I rewatched the DVR when the west coast aired just to see what they were saying (and the actors are fun to watch interact, even on twitter) in order to make sense of their comments so that hopefully helped with not only live-viewing but DVR numbers as well (at least for those who saw it in earlier time zones). I haven’t seen adjusted numbers for this episode but I really hope that was the case.
Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.