Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

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To be fair here, it’s not like the show itself doesn’t have the built-in idea of taking well-known characters and combining them.  As a person who was onboard Hookriel, well I cannot draw a line at TPB being used for Hookiecup.  I do still feel Emma ought to be her own unique character but if that is not the TPB plan well then it isn’t, but I don’t think it could have been their ORIGINAL plan.

The fact is TV is a commercial medium and they map out season to season what they can do.  Adam tries to talk out of both sides of his mouth sometimes, like when he said Jared was misquoted for saying Henry has to be with his real dad.  Um, Adam, it was a direct tweet.  The kid’s 13, give him a break.  He said it, you don’t have to agree with that opinion, and as showrunner probably should not take sides as that’s a “spoiler”.  There was also something about Jane at a convention but I forget the details. She is ON FILM saying something and he said again misquoted, then had to say she misunderstood something.  Riiiiiight …..well Adam’s job isn’t just to write the thing but promote the thing which is why he takes up time on twitter.

Social Media is a new thing for TV networks, and with this week’s news of Blockbuster dying out, it’s just another sign of how entertainment is adjusting to a world of digital media distribution.  They want live viewers to sell to advertisers rather than DVR add skipping, who knows when they’ll see it viewers.  Adam is motivated to make sure his show does well.

As an artist maybe some part of him wants to tell his “vision” but ultimately we all know there are so many limits placed upon network TV.  Budgets, actors, egos, copyrights, weather, you name it but also, fan reaction.  So there’s this fad of CS out there now and regardless of how intentional it was from the writer’s point of view, they are aware of it.   Despite all the people who say it was clearly the plan from the start, clearly endgame even now, there’s always the possibility it was added in or its just  a bit of a diversion because it IS popular.  We can’t know.  We may never know unless the writers reveal it or the actors do.

I am never going to believe ReHo was the plan from the start.  The tattoo, the actor change, the lack of any particular obvious hints –it all just says “ok, they are embroidering this new tale now” but they are building it slowly.  They did it in a way where even if it wasn’t always the plan it looks like it is being planned.

As for CS, and I’d rather call it Hook/Emma or something else other than standard “they fell in love on the beanstalk” when the writers used to say “not that she’s going to fall in love with him or anything” after that episode, and various other things, as well as saying how she’s still in love with Neal, all of it just makes me think I’d rather the writers had left Bae out of it entirely.   Hookiecup is no sillier than Hookriel but  because I like Bae, I find myself annoyed rather than thrilled with how they’ve set all this up given the backstory.

If he’d been Neal, just real-world-guy, her first-love, then I guess I’d think he’s just an obstacle to her romance with Hook.  He isn’t though.  They spent too much time setting him up  as a kid, and as an adult, though his story doesn’t take center stage so far.  Like Henry, there are a lot of characters who react because of him even if we don’t see him and his point of view at certain times.   Yet we DO see his point of view.  They did take him to the FTL and give us those season-staging scenes of him stating his goals, get to my son and my…I don’t know what she is but I want a second chance because I love her.

I liked Schmacky’s post there, yes that gave me hope, and I can’t wait to see how Rumple gets out of this.  In a way it also gave me some good feels that everyone else reacted like Neal did upon hearing the prophecy–WOAH, draw your sword and back away from the Dark One! Neal may be Rumple’s son, but he is also Henry’s father and he knows more than anyone that Rumple might actually kill Henry because he knows Rumple offered to make Neal 14 again moments after hearing about Henry.   He wasn’t overjoyed to hear he had a grandson and Neal SAW that. I know it gets resolved b/c of the next sneak with Wendy (seriously they did those in the wrong order!).  Maybe it makes Neal’s reaction look less harsh to those who found it so.  Then again they will probably be annoyed he spoke out against Rumple, but praising how Hook bravely raises his sword, just like Emma while Neal does not raise a weapon.  Of course if he did, that would be bad too.  Guy cannot win, can he?