I think the shadow looks like a young wraith to be honest, different color eyes perhaps, but also afraid of light. (that’s why he dropped Bae) Now a wraith is a bound creature that goes after whoever is marked, unlike the shadow who seems to pick his own victims. In Neverland no one ages, so the shadow could suck energy from them forever. If he lives on their misery aka the tears they shed at night, having Wendy there could be a problem, because she most likely would comfort them, cheer them up, cutting off the shadow’s food supply. After all Peter chose Wendy as a mother to the lost boys in the original tale. Mothers comfort boys.
Now a few questions of my own. Bae seems to have landed on earth after all, in VICTORIAN London. That’s only about hundred years ago. So does time move differently here? Rumpelstiltskin searched for his son 300 years according to Robert Carlyle. Though we only see the last ten years of FTL so far usually, we have no idea how much time is between that, only that peasant Rumpel seemed to live in the middle ages, but really, present day FTL does not seem to be evolved much further.. So maybe he got it wrong?
Now my money is that “the bureau” started with the Darlings, so in a way Bae started it. (who is with me on that?) Was the shadow destroyed though? Greg and Tamara seem adament they destroyed magic before and somehow I don’t think that’s a reference to the dragon, who was only a minor player in all this. Hook comes back from Neverland just before the curse though, and Bae lands on earth. So does that suggest that somehow “the Bureau” destroyed Neverland. (To be honest I don’t like the Bureau much, I think it is a bit corny and a dime a dozen to add this to OUAT, and harms the originality of the show. It would have been far more exciting if Tamara and Greg were two loners that found eachother, in another form of destiny. Now we will be stuck with them for the rest of the series)
Last but not least…HOW DO THEY EXPECT TO WRAP THIS ALL UP IN ONE FINAL EPISODE OF 45 MINUTES! 😮 *scuse me*