So this caught my eye on tumblr from onceuponamirror regarding OUATIW:
Was watching ouatiw tonight and like many of you, noticed some interesting parallels
because in the face of being TOLD that leaving Alice was the right thing to do, for her sake, Cyrus instead found a way to keep them together, by sacrificing what he held onto from his mother. He also asked and made sure it was her choice.
unlike Neal being TOLD to abandon Emma for the greater good and the right reasons, and then…him doing it. Not sacrificing what he held onto from his father (abandonment issues/fear), without asking Emma what she wanted.
Same writers, you guys.
See, what i’m loving about OUATIW is that it’s showing us a TL couple that are currently fighting to get together. They showing us how it should be done. The disparity between Neal’s actions and Cyrus’ actions are quite clear IMO.
Cyrus and Alice acted as a team, Alice was consulted and her choice taken into account. Neal didn’t work with Emma to find a solution, her choice wasn’t taken into account – heck he didn’t even TELL her there was a choice to be made.
I’m also going to remind everyone of this:
Snow to Charming in 3×04
If you died I would not be able to move on!
Will to Alice in 1×02(?):
When somebody truly loves you, they can never move on.
Adam Horowitz:
Neal moved on and was genuinely in love with Tamara.
Snow’s and Will’s statements are quite clear – when it’s True Love, you are unable to move on.
Those statements are, as far as i’m concerned, immutable. They aren’t open to interpretation – they aren’t fuzzy or indistinct, and you cannot twist them into anything they’re not (much as SFers try).
A&E’s take on True Love makes it pretty darn certain that Swanfire are an example of what True Love is not.
Keeper of Captain Swan's first kiss