I’m all aboard the Nealfire train, but the idea of Neal = White Rabbit would explain the quick grasp of the “you will believe in magic” August box trick as much as Neal = Bae. It would also explain the nods to Alice in Wonderland around Neal’s apartment (although that could be misdirection…. I mean, these are the guys that created Lost)
If they go totally nuts, and we combine that with the theory that Bae visited a lot of other lands…. maybe he went to Never Never Land for a while (and is thus Peter Pan), grew up in Wonderland (as the White Rabbit), ran away from the Queen of Hearts (maybe after he scoffed some tarts? 😉 ) and went to Oz… where he met up with a Wizard* and came to our land….
Dunno. It could work. Could be some good storytelling. Could also be some massively OTT TV though.
* Even though it could have just been misdirection, I think there are WAY too many Oz references in The Doctor to not think about Oz being melded with Frankenstein. Exactly how they might play that I don’t know, but the references were just too blatant. It is either total misdirection, to mess with our heads before the final “this is magic Dr Frankenstein” reveal, or they are hints that in OUAT, Oz is Dr Frankenstein.