Did Mr. Gold remember who he was before Emma came to town?

[eternalflame]

Hmm…I’m not sure if I like the idea of “fate” or “destiny” steering Henry to Storybrooke. That was the problem I had with the finale. All Emma had to do was just touch the book and then BAM. It was very dues ex machina. But then again, the writers probably did that because they spent so much timing having Emma not believe that they didn’t have enough time in the finale for a more long drawn-out explanation for it.

[antbee]

@hjbau wrote:

I also like the idea that it was just fate and destiny that Henry was to be brought back and was not part of some sort of evil plan. And if Henry was steered to Storybrooke i want it to be by someone other then Rumpel. It may have been that only fairytale characters can enter town so Henry could have been the only child that could be brought there.

Yes, I hope that it turns out that Henry was the only child that could be brought to Storybrooke because both of his parents are from the Enchanted Forest, and not because Bae or the Blue Fairy manipulated it. I don’t think either could be redeemed, imo, if they were behind Henry coming to Storybrooke because they would have no idea that Regina wouldn’t harm Henry like she did to her own father. Of course, it seems like the end of “A Land Without Magic” that the writers have made it clear that she would never hurt her son Henry at least physically, but Bae or the Blue Fairy couldn’t have been sure of that at that time if they did get Henry to Regina.

Maybe this is how the identity of Henry’s father will be revealed when someone discovers that Henry had to have been born from two people from the Enchanted Forest in order to be brought to Storybrooke.

[hjbau]

It did not seem sudden or dues ex machina to me the way Emma believed. It was like she believed in that moment and then when she grabbed the book she saw. It is almost as if she believed first and saw second. And they have been leading up to her belief for the entire season. It is like there is this 16 hour movie and the main character believes in the last hour and that does not seem sudden to me at all. It felt right to me. And they had been pushing so hard at her belief ever since Hat Trick that it felt like it was time and i love that she believed early on in the episode and we at least got to see her trying to deal with it throughout the episode. Emma was like in shock and just trying to keep those emotions down so she could do what she had to do to save Henry. It was great.

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