Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[Slurpeez]

And if that’s the case how much time  had actually elapsed between the time Emma broke the spell in 1×22/2×1 (where we were shown he had been notified) to then allowing what? A few more days to pass before meeting up with August which then led to bumping into Tamara which then only gives us what? Days between meeting her, getting engaged, then running into Emma? And we’re supposed to buy this engagement (at least from his end) as genuine? Intentional or another screw up buy the writers?

I know stories of people who meet, fall in love and get engaged in a 3-month timespan. A person can make himself believe a woman is the one, even if she isn’t, especially when that woman plays him hard to make her personality conform to his. Tamara was the ultimate con-artist. There is nothing Tamara wouldn’t have done to make herself into the “perfect girlfriend” to make herself appeal to Neal. Yet, the person he thought he loved didn’t even really exist since Tamara was just telling him what he wanted to hear. “Oh, baby, you love primetime football? So do I!” Right? Like she really wants to watch Monday Night Football, but yet that is what they do after she cooks him his favorite meal. Yet, she secretly was screwing him over and using him to get to SB. So, even though Neal had genuine feelings for the woman he though he’d marry, that woman didn’t exist and so his shock over her betrayal would quickly have turned to anger at having been deceived if he hadn’t a) realized the woman of his dreams (Emma) really does love him and b) he wasn’t consumed with thoughts of figuring out how to return to her. Neal doesn’t have the luxury to brood over a fake relationship. His first choice, Emma, just kicked Tamara’s lying a$$ to save him and then declared her love/need for him. Neal is clearly NOT still in love with Tamara or even the idea of her.