PriceofMagic wrote: “Emma’s not easily charmed by him in the real world,” Kitsis reports. “I’ll just say that!” Hmmmmm? Interesting choice of words by Eddy. Could this mean that the CaptainSwan stuff in Neverland only happened because they were in Neverland?
Well, that is very interesting; I’m guessing CS fans aren’t too happy about this spoiler. Remember? What happens in Vegas Neverland stays there, but when you get back to reality, you see things more clearly. We’d already hypothesized based on spoiler images that a) Emma calls the cops on Hook b) Hook ends up in jail and c) it’s the dreamcatcher and a potion, not a TLK from Hook, that jog Emma’s memories. Sounds like we are pretty correct so far in our theorizing!
“In Emma’s current mind. the last time she saw Neal, that guy f—ing let her go to jail,” Kitsis points out. “She doesn’t have the benefit of re-meeting him in New York.”
In other words, Emma and Neal meeting again in Manhattan served a very important purpose in the sense that as soon as she saw him again, she realized she’d never stopped loving him. Additionally, Emma had the benefit of hearing Neal’s true rationale for having left her, which was to get her home. Now that she has no memory of her parents, she doesn’t realize the self-sacrifice that Neal made for her. Also, Emma, cursed to forget the past few years, doesn’t recall Neal expressing his regret or offering a heartfelt apology to her. True, she has Henry now, but she still wonders why he chose to let her go. So while it’s true that if cursed Emma met him now, she’d be angry at him as she was in “Manhattan” she wouldn’t have the benefit of knowing about her parents, Rumplestiltskin, or the curse. Nevertheless, once Emma remembers who she is by 3×12 or 3×13, then I predict the Swanfire reunion will in fact be a happy one.
kfchimera wrote: While it wasn’t rah rah Neal’s Emma’s love or anything, it WAS very in line with things we said. Emma’s memories are re-set to how she felt, and the way the article quoted Eddy it made it sound to me like the time from Manhattan on were positive experiences she had with Neal. So there’s that. She learned a lot that helped her to see him in a new light, but even with it gone I think her feelings for him are still going to be there and while it seems like they’re setting up another unhappy reunion….surprise, she’ll get her memories back before then so this time we get a happy reunion.
I agree that while the spoiler makes it seem like Emma won’t remember meeting Neal again and therefore it seems like her reunion wouldn’t be a happy one, we already know better from spoiler images. Emma will in fact end up remembering due to the Blue Fairy’s potion. Ergo, Emma won’t only remember Neal and the true reason he left her, but she’ll also be more inclined to empathize with him now that she likewise had to walk away from her family and the man she loves due to another dark curse for Henry’s sake.
WHY DID HOOK, AND NOT NEAL, COME FOR EMMA IN NEW YORK CITY? “There’s a very good reason why Neal didn’t come,” Kitsis assures. (Perhaps Henry’s pop is counted among the “family” Hook arrived to report was “in trouble”?)
Hallelujah for this spoiler! It’s just as we SF fans have been saying: Neal didn’t come to Emma, not because he did’t want to, but because he’s for some reason unable to do so. I was getting so sick and tired of CS fans gloating that Hook is the one instead of Neal to visit Emma. It’s nice to hear Eddy Kitsis himself say there is a very good reason why Neal didn’t come in person. And I’m thinking that reason has something to do with Oz, the WWW, and/or Rumple.
RumplesGirl wrote: with the latest TVLine spoiler, I think Neal is on the gurney. I think the WWW hurt him somehow and that’s who we see in the hospital.
I think that is a very realistic possibility. What if the WWW targets Neal because she somehow magically knows he is Emma’s true love? Maybe the WWW doesn’t want Emma to return, because she fears Emma’s powers as the Savior, and so she either captures and/or injures Neal in an effort to thwart Emma getting her memories back. Yet, the WWW knows Hook’s kiss would not be True Love, so she doesn’t target him; yet, the BF is one step ahead and so she gives Hook the potion made from Pinocchio’s hair, just in case he’s unable to awaken Emma (which it seems he is unable to do by himself
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy