Re: Neal & Emma

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@EastOfTheSun wrote:

@MysteryKat25 wrote:

He can hope all he wants but at the end of the day Emma knows that he knew about all of it, abandoned her in jail, and as annoyed as she will hopefully be with August someday she’ll know that Neal had the option to come find her the moment the curse was broken and confess all and say he did what he did out of love…and instead was off avoiding her because of his dad and getting engaged to someone else. That does not scream love to me. Coward sure, like father like son, but he CHOSE this path. He may be nice and sweet but Emma’s right about the hurtful side. He makes bad choices and apparently hasn’t stopped making them…yet.

I agree with SOME things you say, (I say this loving Nealfire, Swanfire and liking CaptainSwan too)….Nealfire has to make up for his wrongs (sending Emma to jail SO not nice), he has made some bad choices for sure, and acted cowardly by leaving Emma because of the possibility of being reunited with his father….. BUT I think that he is a GOOD person , and he did want her to be happy and truly loves her, and that everything that happened after Manhattan, seeing her again was a total surprise for him, I believe in his mind he thought when Emma would break the curse, she would have her family, and that they would all go back to fairytale land!! We have not seen August/Neal talk about the details of the curse yet, SO we don’t know if August told him they would all go back to FTL (remember Neal acted surprised to see Emma, he told her “what are you doing here??” this could point to that theory, also to back that up Everyone in the episode “Broken” was asking themselves WHY they did not go back to FTL),

So MAYBE Nealfire though he DID NOT HAVE AN OPTION!! Emma was gone forever (I will believe that until having the writers prove me otherwise) that he would NEVER see Emma again, and as the writers have said he thought “that door was closed for him”, so that is why I think he tried to move on with Tamara, because he thought Emma was forever gone as a possibility for him, But now I guess things could change….Still I hope for Swanfire to work it out, I agree they have a LONG way to go,lots of issues to resolve, BUT maybe the could fall in love again, or maybe not…we will see…

That was my take on it too, Eastofthesun, but with one wrinkle. I think at the time Neal agreed to send Emma to jail, at least until he asked for the postcard, he thought Emma would be free once the curse was broken. Then at some point later on, August reveals that Emma won’t be in the real world when the curse is broken and tells Neal to move on. Not that anyone should take relationship advice from Pinocchio, let alone a version who has spent a decade as a bachelor in Phuket (party hot spot reputation & all). But we don’t know that Neal knew August’s FTL identity or even the story of Pinocchio. His reaction when Emma mentions Pinocchio in Manhattan was hard for me to read. Neal trusted August to give Emma money, that it seems August ran away with. So there was probably a lot August did not tell Neal. If Neal had known of Pinocchio’s reputation as a liar/puppet, would he have trusted him?