Although what Gepetto did was selfish for himself and Pinnoc, I can’t say that I blame him, all circumstances considered. All he ever wanted in his life was to have a boy, a real boy. And that was finally granted to him and almost instantly it was about to be taken back. If you could save someone you loved from dying, wouldn’t you? I know I would. It wasn’t the admirable thing to do, but his love for his son blinded him and he couldn’t bare to think he would be responsible for his son’s death. It makes us angry because we know if Snow had gone through, everything would have been different – but then in that case, we wouldn’t have a show 😆
As for Emma, I agree that there are very few things for her to see as hard evidence that she is living with a bunch of Fairy Tale Characters. Like many of you pointed out, we (as the audience) know many more ‘behind the scenes’ details that convinced us. It is easy for us to believe because of all we have seen, hence why we think Emma should believe. But she hasn’t seen it all, and it’s quite true how little hard evidence she has seen. As pointed out, the keys are the only bit of real evidence that links the book and SB together. I think they did throw her off a bit, but she was too busy worrying about MM being set up to think about the keys.
Did she actually ever see the keys in the book? I can’t remember, so many episodes now and I didn’t record them so I can’t look back. Thats a mistake I wont make season 2! 🙂
And yes, most of the people she has heard about FTL from have not been the best – crazy man locked in a house for 28 years spying on a little girl, a 10 year old boy who reads the stories out of a book, and some stranger who just showed up recently in town and is apparently dying. However, out of these I thought that August would be the best chance for her to believe, but the fact that she couldn’t even see his leg shot that down pretty fast. Which leads me to wonder… do you think August is the only one who can see what is happening to him? Or maybe only the believers can?