Neal’s gonna see his Papa’s castle!! Can’t wait to see his reaction to that.
@LovesCake in the chat just suggested that the “pole” is really the TRIDENT and it can open portals. Phee has made a similar suggestion in many other threads that this could be the case. And maybe the trident only take you from your present world to NL. It’s a one way.
I would be psyched if that thing ends up being the trident that they’re gonna use to open a portal! You’d think they could make an actual prop trident without too much hassle though? Unless it’s gonna do something magic-y that requires special effects anyway, so they’re just gonna CGI the whole thing. I now feel the urge to look at every screencap of Mr Gold’s shop, to see if the trident is in SB or not.
So now, from a TV perspective it makes total sense for RH and Neal to interact if Tamara is the daughter of RH and Marian. Neal has to tell RH about the terrible things Tamara has done.
A few headcanons ago, I decided that if Robin was gonna be Tamara’s father, Neal should meet him in FTL and tell him all about the horrible woman who deceived him and tried to kill him, only to have Robin later find out that that nasty piece of work was his long lost baby girl. And now, there’s Neal and Robin chatting away in FTL.
–if Nealfire finds his clothing in the dark castle and realizes how much his papa loves him
Please let him find those clothes!
Also, how does Belle fit in. We know that RH is going to “renew” this alliance with Belle and pay back his debt to her. Does she go to FTL or does he go to SB?
Right now my money is on him going to SB. That thinking depends on the theory of his pregnant wife having been sent to our world being true. If he knows Neal is going back to the world that pregnant Marian went to, then Robin would wanna come with.