Yes Jenna!! You were the one who posted it!!! I saw it and immediately LOVED the theory – it NEVER occurred to me before but as soon as I read your idea I totally fell in love with it!
And I have to say, the more I think about it the more it makes sense to me. Like I said, since I haven’t thought about until now I haven’t looked for any clues that he could be the Wizard of Oz (oh darn, another excuse to go back and rewatch the whole series again LOL). But it does answer the question as to why so many of us have had a problem “bonding” with Neal – they were purposely holding him back because they were waiting to drop the big bomb that he is the Wizard of Oz and then are going to let him have this MASSIVE character explosion and not just this “blah” personality.
And if you think about it from a family tree perspective – his grandfather is this weird eccentric guy who turns into Peter Pan, his father is the Dark One Rumplestiltskin, his son is the Truest Believer, and he is just . . . Neal??? It doesn’t make ANY sense. He HAS to be SOMEONE very important – not just Rumple’s son.