betsypaige24 wrote: His FIRST appearance? Hmm………but probably means nothing
I seem to recall that the casting information didn’t specify anything beyond one appearance. Probably nothing. I keep going back and forth about where Lumiere will be. If it’s Young!Belle then they aren’t using a younger actress but an aged-down Emilie. But that gets tricky with actors, though Emilie looks much younger than her 30yr old self anyway. So that leads me to believe that Lumiere is probably in the Dark One’s castle in the past. Which is odd because Belle said to Rumple in Skin Deep, “I think you were lonely.”
He could have been from a long time ago in the DC past…..possible Rumple turned him into a candle in a fit of pique. I admit tht Rumple does not seem the type to have a servant, especially since he could use magic to get himself whatever he wanted, but if he wanted someone in the DC just to “be” there, so he would know he wasn’t alone……I guess I could see it. That’s probably why he wanted Belle…though honestly it seems odd that if he was just looking for someone, anyone, to be a housekeeper, to occupy space in the DC, that he wouldn’t have found someone well before Belle. Maybe, despite himself, Rumple was looking for someone “just a bit more special” (as I think he put it to Maurice). Maybe, despite himself, he was looking for someone with a mind, someone who he could actually talk to IF he one day felt like it……..