young Rumplestiltskin is given a magical item that could help him make a fresh start with his father
Well that’s gonna make the Rumple/Bae portal scene a frillion times more painful to re-watch in the future.
I didn’t see any credits for a brother or other young boy. So, I’m thinking that sort of squashes the Rumple/Pan/Bro theory.
I don’t think it squashes anything yet, because I never expected there to be a younger Pan cast. If they’re brothers, I always just expected we’d see a flashback to Pan looking the same age he is now, around the time he went to NL.
Maybe Rumple seeks out the way to get a fresh start, and maybe that fresh start includes he and his father getting away from his bully of an older brother. Older brother figures out what’s going on, takes the magical item for himself and ends up in NL for his own fresh start. Maybe he even takes their father with him out of spite, and leaves baby brother behind just like baby brother was intending to leave HIM behind. So Rumple becomes an orphan and goes to live with the spinsters.
It could still go the other way given the 311 set photos, but to my mind, the Brothers theory still makes more sense, and I think it’d be odd if they just ignored that whole plot point from Barrie’s original where Pan has a younger brother, and he feels replaced, which plays a significant role in him going to NL. I’m sure it’ll be a great story however they’ve written it, but I’m sticking to TeamBrothers until the bitter end.
Have they ever notably left out actors who do make a small appearance? I would so love it if Blue would up being the one who gave Rumble the item, whatever it is. (Hmm. Maybe the doll?) Would be an interesting parallel to when she later gives Bae the bean.
Don’t think there’s been an instance where anyone’s been left off. I agree, an appearance by Blue in this storyline would be perfect.
We know Tink and Neal are working with everyone else so I don’t see why they didn’t include them in this line unless they don’t actually go up against Pan but are working on some side thing while the others end up going straight to where Pan is. Either way it makes NO sense. BOTH should have been included in that AND/OR there should have been a line mentioning what they WERE doing because most of the others are accounted for!
I know why. It has to do with Marketing. The marketing depo of ABC and the writing team of ABC are two totally different things with different agenda and strategies. The job of the marketing depo is to sell the show to advertisers for money. They could care less about the actual plot, they want to know how to sell the show. And sexy jungle romp is a classic. Will there be any sexy fun time? No, Emma has just told both of them this. But ABC marketing just wants to say, “advertisers look! smoulder time!”
Pretty much. It’d be great if Kat’s idea about a side mission to save Wendy proves true, but considering the official Twitter account for the show doesn’t even respect the character of Neal enough to bother spelling his name correctly, I’m pretty cynical when it comes to their non-promotion of the character. *sigh*