9/19/16 TvLine: Fall Tv Predictions (OUAT S6)

As the article stated, these are only predictions, so this particular prediction may not be based on any inside information at all. In fact, they mentioned that they only got 30% of their predictions correct for last Season. So for the time being, I’m treating it as just a prediction, and nothing concrete. This isn’t one of their Blind Item articles.

In the event that somebody is written off, though, it’s hard to say for sure. Rumple seems like the safest bet, but permanently writing him off the show has been a common theory since Season 4, so I still think it could go either way. There was a rumor awhile back that Bobby was only willing to do one more Season, but who knows how true that is. I also don’t see it being Zelena for the reasons stated above. Not to mention that Zelena now has a baby, and she is the baby’s only living parent as a result of Robin’s death. I guess if they wanted to they could kill Zelena off, and have Regina raise the baby. I’m not sure how I’d feel about that, though.

If Robert leaves the show, that is just the complete decent into drivel that this show will have become. I don’t even like Rumpel, but he became integral to the story with the introduction of Bae. The writers will have completely lost everything about their story that they originally created with the loss of him.

Rumple dies a hero again, reunited with Neal (MRJ comes back for one scene to probably welcome Rumple to the afterlife), Belle names her son after Rumple and moves out of Storybrooke to see the world like she originally wanted to.

It would be nice if they can get MRJ back for one more scene so they can at least have some closure with father and son being properly reunited, considering that was kinda the whole point of why the show exists in the first place. It’d be a consolation prize because we still never got to see them properly rebuild their relationship, and it’ll be a handwavey way to say, “See, they’re back together and totally fine now, awwwww happy ending,” but at least it would be something.

And I agree that that’s what they’ll do with Belle. Whether Rumple dies in Feb, or at the end of the season, they’ll ship Belle off to Forgotten Character Island in the process. Rumple will have left some sort of if-you’re-reading-this-it-means-I’m-dead letter for Belle, telling her that she inherits everything that was his, and he wants her to take his money and his car and go off to explore the world like she’d always dreamed of. The last we’ll ever see of Belle is her and Baby-Mr-Gold’s-First-Name arriving at Neal’s apartment in NYC.

Rumple will have left some sort of if-you’re-reading-this-it-means-I’m-dead letter for Belle, telling her that she inherits everything that was his, and he wants her to take his money and his car and go off to explore the world like she’d always dreamed of. The last we’ll ever see of Belle is her and Baby-Mr-Gold’s-First-Name arriving at Neal’s apartment in NYC.

Well, they’ve been rehearsing getting rid of Rumple since season 3, so maybe this time’s the charm. But on the other hand, I suppose it all depends on RC — if he actually wants to stay and this isn’t the last season, I can’t imagine they’d write him off the show, since Rumple’s a fairly popular character. Unless they’re in a budget crisis and need to cut costs. (Or unless OUAT’s turned into a cult whereby lacking frothing-at-the-mouth enthusiasm for the writing gets you sacked, which… well, come to think of it, no, that wouldn’t surprise me either). *shrug*

If Robert leaves the show, that is just the complete decent into drivel that this show will have become.

It’s arguably descended into drivel a while ago, and has been happily rolling in it for a while. I’m not sure there’s much room to descend any further. Very little of the “original” intent of the show remains, and the characters most affected by this are, I think, Rumple and Emma. Rumple’s character development is a shambling plot zombie, and Emma has been robbed of her storylines in favor of other characters’ growth arcs.

It is bold for them to predict that it’ll be by February sweeps, though. They could have played it more safe by saying by the end of the Season.

Unless they are also predicting (but not saying) that they believe this to be the final season, in which a surprise death at the height of Sweeps will see the show through to the rest of the season.