Reply To: Was Rumple a Lost Boy? (spoilers!)

[kfchimera]

I think if no new characters it is unlikely we would get some Rumple as a boy story.

I still think Bae’s toy is more likely as it it would not be a random toy.  I agree it would be better if we had seen the toy before, for foreshadowing, but it could work as a lead in to a scene of Bae as a toddler and Rumpel making him the toy.   The line itself helps explain the emotion–it is funny how you think you have the grief all bottled up and something small brings it out.  Part of my reasoning here is that I get sentimental about things, and obviously Rumpel is the type to do the same (chippedcup, shawl), he botttles it up then the object will uncork the grief and sadness.

Have you ever seen Toy Story? Toys can mean a lot. Toy Story 3 highlighted the way our toys become symbols of our lost childhood, and the passage of time.  This makes me weepy, but I could totally picture Andy’s mom losing it if Andy had died and she found Woody in a thrift store.

In the second one, the boy’s mother argues with a man willing to buy the boy’s doll Woody when Woody accidentally ends up on the garage sale.    In the last one an-off-to-college Andy wants to keep Woody, his doll, with him.  He does not want to give the rest of the core gang away.  So he tries to put them in the attic.  In the end, he turns them all, even Woody, over to a little girl.  I cried and I know I was not the only one.  .

Again, I totally agree it would have more impact if we already saw that the straw doll was Bae’s Woody, but it still works otherwise.  And bonus points to the writers if the do work in a Toy story reference with the doll being dressed like the equivalent of a sheriff in FTL of the time.