@LisaFromOH wrote:
When August asked Gold, “Do I look like him at all?” it sounded like a rhetorical question to me. I thought he meant it like, “Clearly I look nothing like him.”
About your other question, August was pretty desperate when he tried to trick Gold, so I think he would’ve tried anything, even something he knew was a very long shot.
That’s my interpretation, anyway. 🙂
Yes, I don’t think August was expecting an answer from Rumple when he if he looked like Rumple’s son. Although I just wanted to comment on that because it still bugs me since I think he looks a lot more like the child actor that played Bae than the one that was Pinocchio. I know he doesn’t have the same eye color, but he doesn’t look like he used to be a ginger at all. The casting wouldn’t have bothered me at all except for that one particular line. I’m going to be even more upset if and when they cast adult Bae if Eion Bailey looks like Dylan Schmid more than the other actor that is cast.
I also agree that August was pretty desperate, so I don’t think he was thinking clearly at all. I theorize that he did meet up with real Baelfire or someone hired by the real Baelfire, in case he wants to keep it a secret that he’s Rumple’s son whenever he might come to Storybrooke, because of Bae discovering somehow that the town of Storybrooke, Maine is actually everyone from the Enchanted Forest. He correctly assumes that his dad probably had something to do with it, but he’s not entirely sure so he just waits and tries to come up with some kind of counter-plan to get his dad back to the Enchanted Forest because he probably never wants to see his father again and definitely does not want magic in this world.
I think Henry’s book was part of his plan, since someone must have told August about it. Although, I still haven’t figured out how Bae would have known about everyone else’s story since they all came after him, but it may explain why Rumple’s story isn’t in the book, if it isn’t since the show hasn’t cleared that up yet, since he may not want anyone to know about Rumple’s son perhaps so he can use that to his advantage later.
The other part of his plan was tracking down August and then revealing the information about the dagger and about how to fool Rumple into thinking August was Bae. I think Bae meant for August to destroy the dagger or at least get the dagger and bring it to Bae so that Bae could help destroy his father before something bad happened like, um, his dad bringing magic to this world, but August was desperate and ruined Bae’s whole plan.
Of course, this theory is based on the assumption that Bae is Henry’s father, and somehow after being with Emma, he got flashes of his old life and got curious and found out about Storybrooke. Also, this theory will probably turn out to be completely wrong too. 😀
ETA: I forgot it’s hard to work in Henry into this theory because I would guess that if Bae was behind the book getting to Henry and/or met up with August and knew all about Storybrooke that he would surely know about his son too. (Again that is assuming that he is Henry’s dad.) So I don’t know why he would let his son be raised by the Evil Queen.